03.4 GLOBAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Central to establishing a sustainability strategy for a project is the implementation of W-B’s Global Impact Assessment (GIA), which is an online sustainability project plan required for every project beginning with the establishment phase. GIA can be accessed through the DI Portal page for every project by clicking on the Global Impact icon at the top.

GIA is an opportunity for the project leadership and team to come together to review mandatory and aspirational sustainability goals for every project, establish procedures to manage sustainable performance through the life of the project, and to identify the potential for innovation or technology requirements to deliver the sustainability strategy. Critically, the GIA process ensures we identify the design and performance data that we must collect as part of our commitment to transparency toward achieving our broader climate action goals as a Global Studio.

GIA asks project teams to identify goals associated with the client, our own internal aspirations, and those of our consultants or collaborators. We also track over 35 sustainability metrics as part of our voluntary reporting commitment, including 29 metrics for design phase assessments and six metrics associated with postoccupancy measurement. Identifying these metrics as part of the GIA process is critical to ensuring our teams track necessary data. This data includes key inputs for the following:

1 Project certifications and mandatory energy code compliance

2 Carbon reduction targets and footprints

3 Energy efficiency targets and measured energy demands

4 Water efficiency targets

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