Seal

A metrics-and-criteria system that lets a bank reliably assess a building's residual value across deconstruction and reuse cycles.

01 — Standard

RVS — Residual Value Standard

The bankable standard for circularly built assets — modeled on established building certifications (LEED, BREEAM), but focused on bankability rather than sustainability marketing.

02 — Distinction

Deliberately its own name

RVS is kept deliberately separate from the Firn house brand — spinoff- capable, its own GitHub organization, its own domain strategy. A certification standard needs to be perceived as a neutral authority, independent of who originally initiated it.

03 — Neutrality

How neutrality is actually enforced

The name alone doesn’t make anything neutral.

01 No exclusivity for SEMBLA — the catalog is system-agnostic by design from the start

02 Criteria before the first certificate, never adjusted retroactively

03 Four-eyes principle on SEMBLA-adjacent questions while the dual role exists

04 Open disclosure of the dual role to the pilot bank and community

Notably, for credibility

Under the standard’s current criteria, the SEMBLA system itself is not yet certifiable — building approval is still pending. That’s not a flaw; it’s evidence the standard isn’t tailored to a predetermined outcome.

04 — Status

Where RVS actually stands

Criteria catalog pending

The public criteria catalog has not yet been published. Once it exists, it moves to its own Seal domain — genuine independence is carried by the neutrality rules above, not the name alone.