Built Environment Resources
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Primary Functions:Make the business case for investing in natural infrastructure, including healthy river basins and wetlandsThe Natural Infrastructure for Business... Read More
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
A tool that verifies net zero energy building performance.
If you are looking for a simple, yet comprehensive, sustainability self-assessment tool, help is at hand. The free, open-source Basic Sustainability Assessment Tool (BSAT)... Read More
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
A tool to help planners and developers rethink how they design their community-scale projects, and provide a compliance review process at the master planning stage and... Read More
Comparison Sets: Maturity Models & Roadmaps
Founded on the principle that sustainability offers a more complete management lens with the potential to significantly advance how well organizations perform, REFOCUS... Read More
An article on how to use constraints to enhance creativity.
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
This tool monitors six key performance indicators to help track and report efficiency improvements to achieve environmental goals and save money on operating costs.
The Corporate Reporting Landscape Map provides a snapshot of corporate reporting initiatives and is intended to be a simple navigational tool. Users of the map should... Read More
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
Snapshots of 2016 data on real estate portfolios, _real estate debt portfolios and infrastructure.
Comparison Sets: Business Case Resources
The Business Case for Product Sustainability. Through LCA Tata Steel is able to understand the impacts and benefits across the life cycle.
Comparison Sets: Maturity Models & Roadmaps
B Corps are for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Full... Read More
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
GRESB Infrastructure provides assessment, scoring, and peer benchmarking for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of infrastructure companies and funds.
Since the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) series in 1999, RobecoSAM has develope a series of sustainability indices, primarily targeted at the the asset... Read More
IRIS is an industry-recognized and curated catalog of metrics that provides a starting point for measuring your social and environmental results. This resource provides... Read More
LEFT is a web-based decision support tool to help industry evaluate patterns of relative ecological value across a landscape to inform land use planning and minimize... Read More
