At Greenbuild 2016, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) announced a new platform to measure the performance of existing structures and track incremental improvements. Arc, as it’s called, is intended both for buildings that are actively working toward LEED certification under its existing building rating system and those that are not.
Using this new tool, architects and designers will be able to record data about any building, at any point on the sustainability spectrum, and arc will calculate the performance score. “Previously, you had to be earning LEED credits to be part of the system,” said Gretchen Sweeney, vice president of LEED Implementation at the USGBC, speaking at Greenbuild. Scot Horst, USGBC’s chief product officer, who will become arc CEO at the end of this year, told record by phone, “We want to allow everyone to be a part of this ecosystem."
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