Our USGBC Texas Impact Advisory Community
Globally recognized tools that put an environmental, social, and financial dollar value on buildings, communities, technologies, policies, and investment strategies.
Our goal is to make these tools technologically and economically accessible to every stakeholder who wants to maximize the value of their buildings and communities, building market acceptance through awareness, internalization, and clear pathways to action.
How can better impact data lead to better decisions across the built environment?
Leading with the business case
Real estate development is transactional and speculative, with wealth creation as its primary goal. For most of us, our homes are our greatest opportunity for generational wealth.
Maximizing long-term asset value means making choices today that hold up tomorrow. There is no guarantee today's valuation criteria will be recognizable in 5, 10, or 50 years, except that every asset will face greater transparency and accountability scrutiny.
The decision-makers who control how wealth is generated and distributed:
- Investment
- Development
- Design
- Construction
- Management
- Occupancy
What if we could access future asset-valuation criteria and apply it to today's decisions?
And use that insight to future-proof the generational wealth potential of the places where we live, learn, work, and play? That is where the Impact Advisory Community comes in.
Awareness
Today's paradigm favors the decision-makers. We highlight the wealth-creation opportunities that appear when all voices are engaged.
Internalization
We make the dollar-value benefits and burdens of other people's decisions concrete for individuals, families, and professions.
Action
We offer proven marketplace access to business-case due diligence pathways that build generational wealth for all stakeholders.
Our mission
Working in partnership with marketplace visionaries, the USGBC Texas Impact Advisory Community will
- aggregate,
- refine,
- advocate,
- deploy
solutions that foster opportunity awareness, internalize professional and personal impacts, and provide technologically and economically accessible action pathways.
Creating places where Humans and Nature thrive.
Four levels of engagement
Each level deepens engagement, from connecting people, to standardizing expectations, to platform-based evaluation, to project-ready analyses.
- Best Practice ChampionsConnect with members who share knowledge and journeys.
- Market Relevant Minimum Evaluation ExpectationsStandardized MRMEE templates for today's marketplace.
- P3I Platform®Evaluate alternatives in environmental, social, and financial dollars.
- P3I AnalysesInvestment-grade due diligence for real projects.
Level 1
Best Practice Champions
The what and how experts
The issue
Individuals become USGBC Texas Members to meet professionals who share their passion, but many lack the time or experience to engage in structured committees outside their core competencies or comfort zones.
The solution
USGBC Texas Best Practice Champions (BPC): members who make themselves available to fellow USGBC Texas Members, Texas school systems, and community organizations starting or advancing their sustainability journey.
Best Practice Champions are USGBC Texas members and sponsors who know which designs, technologies, policies, and investment strategies are best practice, and how to deploy them. Paired with the ability to explain the business case, they are among the most effective advocates in our community.
Champions make reciprocal commitments to our members and to the community. Do you have what it takes to be a USGBC Texas Best Practice Champion?
The Best Practice Champions Directory is available to current USGBC Texas Members.
Who benefits
| Manufacturers, designers, contractors and investors |
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| Inhabitants, communities and school systems | No-cost access to professionals with specific knowledge and skills, willing to guide your sustainability and resiliency journey. |
Level 2
Market Relevant Minimum Evaluation Expectations
MRMEE templates
The issue
No standardized minimum evaluation guidance exists for building components, systems, and performance impacts, disadvantaging manufacturers, inexperienced project teams, and ultimately the asset's optimal value.
The solution
The USGBC TX-IAC facilitates the aggregation, refinement, advocacy, and deployment of standardized profession, industry, component, and technology-specific MRMEE templates.
What MRMEE templates accomplish
Equal access
Unbiased, transparent, standardized templates grounded in marketplace-relevant (reality) minimum expectation baselines.
Impact in dollars
Natural, Human, and Economic generational wealth potential, in dollar values.
Emerging expectations
New rating systems, regulations, net zero, no plastics, and more, tested as a business case against today's market.
Who benefits
How wealth-creation dollars flow to asset Owners, Inhabitants, and Communities.
Every voice heard
Investors, manufacturers, designers, contractors, inhabitants, and communities engaged in keeping MRMEE templates relevant to the marketplace.
Stakeholders can internalize the scale of an impact, and the advantage they might gain by behaving differently.
Stakeholder opportunities
| Manufacturers |
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| Designers |
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| Contractors |
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| Investors |
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| Inhabitants and community | Unfiltered insight into the generational wealth that has, or has not, been created for them by the decision-makers they entrusted. |
Level 3
The P3I Platform®
The infrastructure democratizing impact agency
The issue
Evaluations arrive too late, favor upfront cost over lifecycle consequences, and ignore environmental and social value, while leaving Owners, Inhabitants, and Communities unaware of how wealth generation is distributed.
The solution
An impact-awareness portal, collaborative safe space, and pathway-to-action infrastructure that monetizes environmental, social, and financial value, and shows who receives it.
The Planet People Profit Impact (P3I) Platform from P3I.GLOBAL is the infrastructure for learning about impact opportunities and pursuing pathways to action. It works as a universal business case translator, so stakeholders can communicate environmental, social, and financial value across industry silos.
No specialized expertise is required: no building science, green rating system, economics, regulatory, or investor background. Every output is expressed in simple dollar terms.
USGBC Texas uses the platform as an awareness portal to gather and share marketplace solutions. If your voice is missing, contact P3I.GLOBAL to build it.
Free for USGBC Texas Members
Free for current USGBC Texas Members and Community Facing Non-Profits at app.p3i.global. Request your access code from info@p3i.global.
Built on USGBC LEED v5
Buildings and communities offer the largest opportunity to access generational wealth. P3I methods build on and exceed the LEED v5 Triple Bottom Line – Informed Design Regional Priority Credit, delivering investment-grade due diligence for the business case.
Typical onboarding of a manufacturer
What manufacturers gain
| Rigorous evaluation |
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| Simple dollar language |
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Other stakeholder opportunities
| Designers and contractors | Business-case substantiation, a "bid form" for faster decisions, and value engineering that shows which benefits are cut and who loses them. |
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| Investors | Validated returns, scrutiny of questionable sustainability promises, and support for internal vetting tools. |
| Inhabitants and community | Unfiltered insight into generational wealth created for them, and a seat at the table with equal business-case agency. |
Level 4
P3I Analyses
Due diligence documentation of generational impact
The issue
Analyses showing the full environmental, social, and financial asset-value opportunity of best-practice designs, technologies, policies, and investment strategies have been out of reach for most projects.
The solution
USGBC Texas and P3I.GLOBAL partner through the Impact Advisory Community to make the tools accessible as project-ready P3I Analyses.
P3I Analyses follow third-party, transparent triple-bottom-line cost-benefit accounting and are credit-approved within multiple LEED rating systems. USGBC Texas and P3I.GLOBAL offer them for both LEED and non-LEED projects, as menu items matched to each phase of a project's lifecycle.
Not sure which analysis fits your timeline and goals? Email info@p3i.global.
Stakeholder opportunities
| Manufacturers | Immediate access to validated, investment-grade due diligence substantiating asset-value benefits in specific projects. |
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| Designers | Stronger RFP and RFQ responses, LEED and non-LEED due diligence, and revenue for any LCA or TBL CBA practitioner. |
| Contractors and design-build firms | A direct connection to Owners through unbiased evaluation not provided by developer or design teams. |
| Investors | Transparency previously obscured by siloed design and construction processes, plus third-party evaluation. |
| Inhabitants and community | Insight into generational wealth created for them, and business-case agency for grassroots groups to claim a seat at the table. |
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Where this journey takes us: democratizing the impact decision-making process
By providing unfiltered access to the potential environmental, social, and financial dollar value impacts of siloed ecosystem decisions, we create an opening for every stakeholder to enter any sustainability and resiliency conversation armed with the highest level of substantiated business-case agency.
This democratizes the impact decision-making process and demands that the marketplace deploy appropriate fiduciary processes to identify generational-wealth creation opportunities for every project.
Let's work together to create a generationally responsible future today
Questions about the Impact Advisory Community? Email Chapter@USGBCTexas.org.