ULI Greenprint Center to Help Measure Portfolio Energy Performance

By Erin Weaver

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Greenprint Foundation have come together to form the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance. Designed to facilitate information exchange throughout the real estate and land-use industries, this collaboration unites ULI’s 30,000 members with the foundation’s goal of reducing building emissions 50% by 2030—the target set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for greenhouse gas stabilization. The center will utilize the Greenprint Carbon Index (GCX) for energy benchmarking, enabling members to measure their portfolios’ emissions reductions over time.

Energy use in buildings currently makes up one-third of global energy consumption, creating an urgent need for collaboration and innovation. To that end, says Ronald P. Weidner, founder of the Greenprint Foundation, “the ULI Greenprint Center will lead the global property markets in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a meaningful and measurable way. More importantly, it can help change the behavior of the population at large.”