Author: Matt Ellis

Matt Ellis is the Founder and CEO of Measurabl and former Director of Sustainability Solutions for CBRE (NYSE: CBG), the world's largest commercial real estate services company. He is an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and a member of the City of San Diego’s Sustainable Energy Advisory Board.

GRESB Merges with GBCI: What it Means for Survey Respondents

Matt Ellis Green Building April 8, 2015

Just over five years into its existence GRESB, the benchmark for portfolio-level sustainability performance has merged with GBCI, the dominant building-level sustainability certification body. The move makes clear winners of GRESB (the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark) and GBCI (the Read more…

After GRESB: Four Things to Consider After (and Just Before) You Submit

Matt Ellis Green Building August 5, 2014

You’ve purged your inbox of property manager emails and compiled a mountain of data into one gleaming, “almost-final” 2014 GRESB response. Just one last meeting with the Powers That Be stands between you, the submit button, and a well deserved glass of Read more…

Cliff Notes for GRESB: What’s New In Performance Indicators

Matt Ellis Green Building April 14, 2014

A new and substantially different version of GRESB’s Performance Indicators aspect has landed. So toss out your old spreadsheet (it won’t help this year), pull out your copy of the GHG Protocol, and get ready to rethink your approach to Read more…