EDGE registration of intent: filed
The Dagaz has been entered onto the IFC EDGE registry of intent. The number, the auditor process, and what comes next.
The Dagaz has been entered onto the IFC EDGE registry of intent under reference EDGE-KE-2025-00148. This is the first formal step in the EDGE certification path: a project, a developer, a target standard, recorded in the public registry maintained by IFC.
Three notes on what this is, and what it is not.
It is the public commitment to the standard. EDGE Advanced is the level we have committed to: a minimum 40% operational energy saving, 20% water saving, and 20% reduction in embodied energy of materials, each measured against a comparable Nairobi baseline using the EDGE software. The target is on the registry. The methodology is the auditor's, not ours.
It is not certification. The order of operations under EDGE is: registration of intent, design-stage audit and preliminary certificate, construction, post-construction audit and final certificate. We are at step one. The preliminary certificate follows the design audit. The final certificate follows the post-construction audit. We will publish each step on this site, on the date the certificate is issued, with the certificate document attached.
It is also not the auditor. The IFC-licensed auditor for The Dagaz will be named on engagement. The engagement is in the closing stages. We are not naming a firm here that we have not yet countersigned with — saying who is auditing your work before you have signed with them is the kind of small dishonesty that compounds into a reputation problem.
The registration number, the auditor's name, and the design-audit result will appear on the project Standards page as each is issued.
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