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Don’t Waste Good Waste: Composting for Commercial Rooftop gardens and water- saving interior landscapes are already integrating green practices into the daily lives of tenants and staff. However, there is another green system that is becoming popular in commercial bui [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable Sites: What Your Site Needs to Stay Green The amount of thought and organization that goes into managing a site. While it is always stressful to add another consideration to the plate, keeping a site sustainable can save money and time in the long run, while mak [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Healthy Buildings, Webinars
The Future of Sustainability in Response to COVID-19 Webinar On June 11,2020, BOMA Georgia members met to discuss the sustainability piece to the COVID-19 re-entry puzzle. Nancy Larson, LEED AP O+M with Envision Realty Services and Becca Rushin with Jamestown led a presentation on [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Climate change and how it might affect CRE in the future While often a political hot-button, climate change has the potential for massive effects on the commercial real estate industry. The past couple of years have seen rising sea levels, larger storms and and increased empha [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Operations & Maintenance
Sustainability: From Low-Hanging Fruit to Cutting Edge Sustainability can sometimes feel like a nebulous goal. People throw the word around a lot, but it seems overwhelming to tackle an entire sustainability project at once. While large scale changes can have social and econ [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Professional Development
Are You a LEED-er? What LEED Credentialing Means for O+M Green jobs and environmentally conscious management practices are ever-growing in the commercial real estate and facilities management industry. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credentialin [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability, Healthy Buildings, Operations & Maintenance, Tenant Experience
“Grow” Your Tenant Amenities by Adding a Farm It is no secret that the expectations for office spaces are changing. As work environments continue to blur the lines between work and play, property managers and building engineers alike must consider new and innovative [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Roofing
Urban Beekeeping and CRE – Susan Hammer Susan Hammer with JLL talks about what it's like to have beehives on properties and the decision to put them on her Beacon-owned property in Chicago. Find out more about urban beekeeping and what it takes here: http://om [...] - Environmental Sustainability
2019 Green Lease Leaders Announced at BOMA International Conference IMT and the DOE Better Buildings Alliance recognize leading-edge landlords, tenants, and real estate teams representing more than 501 million square feet of commercial, retail, and industrial space whose leasing practice [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Professional Development
BOMI-HP: The High-Performance, Environmental Sustainability Designation What does it mean to run a high-performance building? The task to make large-scale systems work efficiently and environmentally can seem daunting. With occupancy demand on the rise, it may seem there is more needed for a [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability, Roofing
CRE and the Bee Bees buzzing around can help the garden, but can it help a commercial real estate asset’s bottom line? A new free white paper from BOMA Georgia and the BOMA Georgia Foundation outlines how the commercial real estate in [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Surging Solar Energy Solar energy use has surged at about 20 percent each year over the past 15 years thanks to rapidly falling prices and gains in efficiency. Japan, Germany, and the United States are major markets for solar cells. With tax [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Defining the Role of the Sustainability Manager – Craig Haglund Craig Haglund with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discusses the role of the "energy" or "sustainability" manager in property management. Explaining how this role benefits and impacts a business, building or org [...] - Environmental Sustainability Defining the Value of ENERGY STAR Certification – Craig Haglund Craig Haglund, ENERGY STAR Program Manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discusses the external value that ENERGY STAR certification brings to your building or property. In addition to offering industry-l [...]
- Environmental Sustainability
Changes to ENERGY STAR Set for August 26, 2018 ENERGY STAR is updating its performance metrics in Portfolio Manager on August 26, 2018 for all property types. The update is being made to utilize the program’s most recent Commercial Building Energy Consumption Surve [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Roofing
Is Solar for My Building? Interest in solar is growing. In 2016 in the United States, 39 percent of all new electricity generation capacity in the country came from solar. This was more than any other source and ahead of natural gas.4 And it’s [...] - Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability
Demolition Recovery Recovering Construction Waste During a Tenant Build-Out
Build-outs produce a lot of waste. That’s unavoidable. But that doesn’t mean that you have to be wasteful with your waste. Demolition Recovery, or reco [...]
