Find & Register your Building’s Carbon Footprint AND Plan Safe “Re-entry” for inhabitants & workers- with Arc

Shayna Davidov Hanson
3 min readJul 28, 2020

Find the level your Real Estate Portfolio, Projects or Communities are at in terms of Well Building Rankings Within a newly developed software called Arc.

Besides Arc helping with attaining LEED Green Building Points for both retro-builds and new construction; Arc Software can assist in planning proper operational management of existing buildings. This new and exciting program and certification system, can measure and quantify health standards within the built environments.

For Developers, Cities, Real Estate Portfolio Managers and Sustainably and Health minded professionals, the Arc software management is a new and cutting edge tool to provide an extra level of assurance to investors, communities, residents and employees — -that buildings are healthy.

Buildings and Real Estate holdings can be entered into the Arc re-entry management software on an individual basis, or entire “portfolios” can be measured to showcase to consumers the high level of commitment that owners have to stakeholders.

A number of indicators are analyzed from air quality, energy usage, waste management, human experience, transportation services and are “scored” within the Arc system. Additionally, Arc can be utilized to provide date for the purpose of LEED performance reporting and a also can help estimate the Carbon Footprint ranking for existing structures.

In Covid and Post-Covid times, Arc Software, in addition to the resources LEED provides in regards to Covid-19; provide a quantifiable way to indicate whether your existing dwelling “measures up” to a high level of environmental health standards and can ALSO create a snapshot to provide consumers and stakeholders an indication of how clean and sustainable your project is.

More and more, consumers are demanding BOTH stringent attention to environmental health standards as well as desire built environments that are committed to sustainability. With the Arc Re-entry tools, decision makers and owners can provide both!

Some of units of metrics for Arc Certification scorecards include: water usage, occupancy inputs and electricity usage, amongst other things. There is a different set of metrics from Energy Star to Arc. Energy Star is solely based on source energy. Arc, however, uses measurements for Greenhouse Gas emissions — GHGs. That said, Arc Software can integrate with Energy Star programs. Arc simply provides a more in-depth overview of scoring related to emissions, carbon footprint and overall building air and health.

Developers, Portfolio owners, REITs, Policymakers, Wellness Professionals and Marketers should take note of this new way of understanding carbon emissions; not only for the obvious environmental benefits, but the ARC moniker is an outstanding way to showcase the highest standards in sustainability to attract consumers. You can not only rank your individual existing building, but you can create data set surrounding for multiple sets of holdings to be assessed and scored. This can prove to be an invaluable, socially responsible tool for companies, communities and professionals.

Once you get a score in Arc, you also can link back the certification and score to LEED Green building standards, including in striving for the very aspirational goal of acquiring LEED “Net Zero” status, which is the ultimate and most forward level in sustainability/ Green building. The score that you receive in Arc, sets up owners for the LEED certification levels you want to pursue. Ninety percent of the LEED qualification scores, comes from building “performance”.

Arc, in effect, is a way to bridge the gap between design and construction with its operation and maintenance. Arc bridges the gap, through supporting LEED O&M certification and recertification. LEED O&M recognizes ongoing performance.

Learn how you can get started in benchmarking your building/s and communities, by utilizing the Arc tool for professionals and emerging green economies.

Arc Re-Entry webpage: https://arcskoru.com/re-entry

Learn more about Arc Re-Entry in this article: https://arcskoru.com/getting-started-arc-re-entry

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Shayna Davidov Hanson

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson