What green building means in Georgian law
In international practice, green building is associated with specialized legislation on energy efficiency and ecological certification of buildings. Georgia has no green building code in force, and this must be stated plainly at the outset: there is no separate energy-efficiency or green-building certification act operating on the Georgian market. What does exist is the construction-permit regime established by the Law of Georgia on Licenses and Permits, together with the interim regulation of the technical safety of buildings and structures. That framework is the legal foundation on which any green project must be built, and this page explains how it works in practice.
It is important to define the terms. Under that law, a permit is an individual administrative-legal act of an administrative body that regulates the performance of a specific action, and the permit issuer is the body authorized by law or by a normative act of the Government of Georgia to issue permits. In the construction context this means that even your energy-efficient or ecologically oriented project passes through the general permit procedure — the law does not grant a green building a separate, preferential track.
Types of construction permit
In the list of types of permit established by the Law on Licenses and Permits, construction is covered by several distinct items: a construction permit — except for the construction of objects of special significance, radiation or nuclear objects; a construction permit for objects of special significance, except radiation or nuclear objects; and a construction permit for radiation or nuclear objects. This classification determines which authority you stand before and through which procedures your object passes.
The same list also contains the integrated environmental permit, which enters into force on 1 September 2026. From the green building perspective this is one of the most significant innovations: integrating environmental requirements into the permit procedure is precisely the instrument through which ecological consideration becomes an inseparable part of a construction project rather than an afterthought. If your planned activity falls within the scope of that regime once it activates, the environmental component of your project will no longer be addressable separately from the construction authorization itself.