Webinar: Introduction - USGBC Texas
Impact Advisory Community
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Virtual Session
12:00 - 1:00 PM
About the Presentation:
Join USGBC Texas on September 17 for the launch of its Impact Advisory Community (IAC) initiative. This virtual session will introduce the community’s purpose, approach, and opportunities for participation. Learn more at https://usgbctexas.org/Impact-Advisory-Community.
The USGBC Texas IAC brings built-environment stakeholders together to clarify and communicate the environmental, social, and financial value of generationally responsible design, technology, policy, and investment strategies. The goal is to make these strategies easier to understand, apply, and advocate for across projects, communities, and investment decisions.
USGBC TX IAC Mission:
1. Maximize the immediate and long-term asset value of buildings and communities for investors and taxpayers.
2. Create places where businesses and residents can prosper and Nature can thrive.
What You’ll Take Away
- Understand impact decision-making processes advanced through LEED v5 Triple Bottom Line-Informed Design, including how to apply them on LEED and non-LEED projects.
- Learn how to become a USGBC Texas Best Practice Champion.
- Explore how USGBC Texas members use the Planet People Profit Impact (P3I) Platform ® to communicate Natural, Human, and Economic asset value opportunities—and to show how value is shared among asset owners, inhabitants, and surrounding communities.
- See how targeted P3I Analyses can strengthen the business case and provide the substantiated agency needed to participate in impact decision-making.
- Consider whether your perspective belongs in the USGBC Texas Impact Advisory Community as it shapes and deploys solutions that support places to live, learn, work, and play—where everyone can prosper and Nature can thrive.
Presenters:
Nicolas Blackburn
Nicolas is a senior economist with Autocase Economic Advisory, specializing in economic modeling and cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure, energy, and climate investments. His work spans transportation electrification, renewable energy, green stormwater infrastructure, wildfire mitigation, sustainable aviation fuel, and waste and wastewater systems. He has also developed methodologies to quantify ecosystem services and public health impacts, and has experience assessing climate and energy risk to inform investment and portfolio decisions. His expertise combines rigorous financial, environmental, and social analysis to help clients evaluate complex projects and investment strategies. Nicolas holds a Master of Financial Economics from the University of Toronto.
Steph Larocque
Steph is a senior executive with over two decades of experience shaping the economic analysis of the built environment. As COO at Autocase, and previously as Environmental Economics Practice lead at a large architecture and engineering company, he led teams of economists, software developers and building scientists in creating software products while delivering economic/financial advisory work spanning all categories of building and infrastructure projects across North America. His expertise is grounded in advanced triple bottom line analysis, focusing on quantifying financial, environmental, and social outcomes to support complex capital investment decisions. He is also a recognized thought leader in this space, having spoken at countless industry events and contributed to graduate-level instruction at Columbia and Harvard.
David MacLean
P3I.GLOBAL (www.p3i.global) – Founder. From creation of detailed Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) to continuously verified confirmation of performance expectations, P3I.GLOBAL provides the business-case substantiation stakeholders and shareholders use for justifying the deployment of generationally responsible best practice designs, technologies, policies, and investment in the places we live, learn, work, and play.
ESG IMPACTS (www.ESG-IMPACTS.com) – JV Partner / Chief Impact Assurance Officer. ESG IMPACTS is an asset-creation-driven company providing certified ESG and Impact audits, analysis, and scoring of real estate for owners, investors, users, and lenders.
P3I.GLOBAL - Planet People Profit Impact (P3I) Platform (app.p3i.global) – Creator. The community facing P3I Platform gives Built Environmental Ecosystem stakeholders access to monetized natural (Planet), human (People), and financial (Profit) asset value creation opportunities possible through deployment of proven generationally responsible best practices.
