Measuring Impact: Buildings, People, Planet

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Description:

Since 1993, USGBC has been at the forefront of green building practice and innovation, inspiring organizations globally through its tools and solutions to set and meet ambitious goals for reducing climate impacts and advancing positive health outcomes and community benefits. USGBC has generated deep rooted impacts at multiple levels, and the story needs to reach our community. Thus, USGBC has undertaken an impact study to measure and communicate the organizational impacts, the impact of products and on market adoption. The presentation shall demonstrate USGBC/GBCI impacts on the global green building movement, including decarbonization and resource efficiency, skilling people, creating green jobs, and transforming markets.

In this session the impact story of the over 30-year journey of USGBC/GBCI will be communicated through featuring key milestones, case studies, testimonials, deep data analytics from projects and people-oriented databases, and market insights.

BEE Incorporations will share the impacts that they have achieved through the application of LEED in the retail sector. They will present the findings of a seminal internal research project that analyzed the data from hundreds of Certified LEED retail projects from all over the world. The objective was to identify what ID+C strategies resulted in the greatest positive impact on carbon footprint during operations. This also resulted in co-creation of a global index that can benchmark retailers and the carbon impact of their design and construction choices.

GAIA has been at the forefront of decarbonizing industrial buildings at scale through early integration of WBLCA to reduce embodied carbon and early design phase energy modeling along with solar to get buildings to net zero carbon operations. GAIA will discuss strategies and impact metrics used to reduce carbon at all life cycle stages, as well as financial modeling showing high returns for renewable energy integration. The presenter will highlight how LEED is a driving force for sustainability and getting to zero, drawing upon LEED V5’s embodied and operational carbon metrics and their influence on future design decisions.

Perkins&Will has set internal impact metrics as per GRI framework to track, report and monitor achievement of its ESG goal. LEED is an important part of the journey to enable Perkins&Will navigate the journey towards its goals. The presenter shall talk about the key impact metrics/performance indicators on decarbonization and health & well-being, process of setting up the key goals and measurement methods, contribution of USGBC and LEED in achievement of KPIs, lessons learned, and looking ahead.