by Brianna Crandall — October 7, 2016 — During the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) International Summit held at the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo this week (October 5-7) in Los Angeles, Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) announced a new green building technology organization called “arc.”
Officially launching later in 2016, arc was developed to further the performance of the green building industry and the built environment as a whole. Scot Horst, USGBC’s chief product officer who led LEED’s continued evolution through LEED 2009 and v4, its globalization, and its shift from a design tool to a performance metric, has been named arc’s incoming CEO.
After gathering extensive green building data and its related business intelligence over the last two decades, USGBC and GBCI have begun to measure, monitor and score building performance in real time. The organizations developed arc as a way to provide new and more transparent ways to share this information and support the missions of USGBC and GBCI.
Arc is a state-of-the art green building technology platform that will allow any building to participate and immediately start measuring performance, make improvements and benchmark against itself.
LEED-certified buildings can use arc to improve and benchmark against other certified buildings around them. Buildings that have not certified yet will be able to use arc to make incremental sustainability improvements and eventually achieve LEED certification.
Arc’s goal is to transform green performance technology and bring data, mobility and the most disruptive technologies available today to support a holistic approach to building the future. Arc is an open platform built to connect and integrate the current and future standards, guidelines, protocols and systems that enable a higher quality of life.
The arc green building technology platform is a complement to LEED and other green building rating systems, standards, protocols and guidelines, and allows buildings and spaces to connect to the built environment in a new way by comparing performance metrics and connecting them to green building strategies. Arc is designed to eliminate complexities and barriers to behavioral change.
