Greenhouse Gas Calculator for Facility Operations
The building industry represents nearly half of our national GHGs. As building sector professionals, it is our responsibility to assess the GHGs from the facilities within our purview, and aggressively focus on cutting back. Measuring existing GHGs of our facilities is an important step, and worth investigating is the accounting protocol developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). www.ghgprotcol.org
Kit Ratcliff AIA, NCARB, LEEDŽ AP has sourced this protocol to develop the GHG Calculator for Facility Operations. He obtained WRI’s permission to share the GHG Protocol calculation tools and has introduced certain adjustments to make them more user friendly. Read the Introduction, and then explore the remaining sheets in the workbook. If data can been collected for a facility’s 2007 operations, it can form a baseline to chart progress in 2008.
The science of measuring and reporting emissions is constantly evolving. WRI/WBCSD will be issuing updates to their spreadsheets in the near future, and Ratcliff will update this tool accordingly. Kit welcomes your feedback: “Let’s find out where we are, and take action to get on the down slope towards zero greenhouse gas emissions!” Kratcliff@ratcliffarch.com
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“Change must be measured from a known baseline.” —Evan Shute