After a Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) verification, what do the codes VRC (Verification Completed), VRE (Verification Being Edited) and VRF (Verification Finalized) mean?

VRC means the verifier has finished and the result waits for your review. VRE means it is being edited at your request. VRF means you accepted it and it is locked. VRD (Verification Disputed) means you dispute it. Only after VRF can you post the verified result for your buyers to see.

The codes in plain words

• VRC, Verification Completed: the verifier has entered every answer and comment, and Worldly tells you the report is ready to review.
• VRE, Verification Being Edited: you asked the verifier for changes. Think of it as handing a marked paper back to the examiner. The verifier must convert it back to VRC within 7 business days.
• VRF, Verification Finalized: you accepted. No further edits can be made. You then post the verified module so your connections can see the scores and results.
• VRD, Verification Disputed: only for cases where the verifier did not follow the protocol, or for complaints about the verifier body or verifier's conduct. You give details to Cascale.

The time limits on the verifier

Results must be entered on Worldly within 14 business days of finishing the verification. We could not find a deadline for your own review in the protocol, so ask your verifier body how long it will wait.

If you find a number is wrong after VRF

• Currently, the protocol allows a VRF change request for confirmed inaccuracies in quantitative data, for example energy or water use, and a few other approved cases decided by Cascale.
• Your request must say what was wrong, the corrected value, and why you did not catch it earlier through the VRE route.
• Cascale reviews it. After the change the module returns to VRC, and you accept again or ask for more edits.
• The program's quality checks, run by the Verification Program Manager, can also invalidate a verified report, after which it can no longer be shared.

A report's path, in order

• Verifier finishes and enters the report: VRC
• You spot a wrong unit on a diesel line and ask for a change: VRE
• Verifier fixes it within 7 business days: back to VRC
• You accept: VRF, locked, then you post it for your buyers

The example is ours. The order is the protocol's.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so a wrong unit or missing month shows up before the verifier visit. Senseible is not a Higg verifier body and cannot change a verified report, and its records are not FEM-verified.

• Higg FEM verification days and offsite rules
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Sources: Cascale, Higg FEM Verification Protocol, version 1.7 (September 2026)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. From the verification protocol version 1.7 (sections 4.7 to 4.11). The protocol sets no deadline for the facility's own review as far as we could find.