Member-to-Member Information Exchange Measures Energy Use, Carbon Footprint of Commercial Portfolios WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is enhancing its commitment to environmentally conscious development with the transfer of the activities and assets of the Greenprint Foundation into the newly formed ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance. With this action, ULI is continuing the operation of a unique industry-to-industry initiative through which leading real estate professionals exchange information and measure individual building and portfolio performance on the basis of energy use and carbon emissions. The announcement of the transfer of the Greenprint Foundation's activities and assets to the institute was made today at ULI's headquarters office in Washington, D.C. The ULI Greenprint Center will be incorporated into ULI's broader Climate, Land Use and Energy (CLUE) initiative. The center will carry on the Greenprint Foundation's mission, which is to lead the global real estate community in the use of greenhouse gas reduction strategies that support the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) goals for global greenhouse gas stabilization by 2030. The ULI Greenprint Center will continue to advance the Greenprint Foundation's goal of a 50-percent reduction in building emissions by that date. Currently, the energy used in buildings represents one-third of all global energy consumption.
