Measurabl and USGBC California launched the California Building Performance Pulse, a public-facing dashboard designed to improve visibility into sustainability performance trends across the California building sector and help owners, operators, and other stakeholders better benchmark building performance across the state.
“California’s climate and building performance goals depend on making high-quality data that is accessible, understandable, and actionable,” says Ben Stapleton, CEO, USGBC California. “Measurabl’s Building Performance Pulse helps make energy, carbon, and water insights more visible and usable for owners, operators, policymakers, and other stakeholders working to improve building performance, reduce emissions, and strengthen resilience across California.”
“Our new dashboard reflects a broader shift toward more transparent, participation-driven, and useful performance insights based on high quality data,” says Mike Zatz, SVP, global data ecosystem and partnerships at Measurabl. “By partnering with USGBC California, we’re able to focus on the building performance insights most relevant to California stakeholders and deliver a resource designed to benefit the broader market and the public. As additional buildings join the platform, the dataset becomes more comprehensive and therefore more valuable for the full commercial building ecosystem.”
Key takeaways:
· Pulse enables peer comparisons across a variety of building types, such as office, industrial, and retail, with dynamic filtering by city, floor area, year built, and other characteristics. It displays median annual performance, percentile distributions, year-over-year trends, and geographic patterns to help users better understand how building performance varies across California.
· Pulse combines energy, carbon, and water usage insights together in a single platform, making it the only public California dashboard to include all three.
· The California Building Performance Pulse tracks more than 1.3 billion square feet of floor space across six years of utility reporting for buildings in California, representing in total 23 million metric tons of carbon emissions; 109 billion kWh of energy use and 240 billion gallons of water consumption.
· Data powering the platform is sourced from Measurabl’s Quantum Cloud, which tracks sustainability data from more than 23 billion square feet across 90-plus countries. The data is screened, validated, deduplicated, and refreshed on an ongoing basis to improve quality and usability of the platform.
