2022 Medical Office Buildings ENERGY STAR® Update In January 2014, ENERGY STAR stopped certifying medical office buildings. Medical offices could still have ENERGY STAR scores, but scores over 75 did not receive certification. This was due to a scarcity of useable data [...]
Advocacy Days: Following Up Advocacy days are key events that allow individuals and shared interest groups to lobby legislators directly. Associations, non-profits, businesses, and concerned citizens use them to let their representatives hear their [...]
Advocacy Days: Executing Your Event Advocacy days are key events that allow individuals and shared interest groups to lobby legislators directly. Associations, non-profits, businesses, and concerned citizens use them to let their representatives hear their [...]
Advocacy Days: Planning Advocacy days are key events that allow individuals and shared interest groups to lobby legislators directly. Associations, non-profits, businesses, and concerned citizens use them to let their representatives hear their [...]
Utilities and You: Incentives and Rebates From the western coasts of the Pacific to the eastern shores of the Atlantic, and everywhere in between, utility companies manage the energy, water, and gas used by the commercial real estate industry. Utility companies [...]
Top Ten CRE Insight Journal Videos of 2021 The Basics on MERV-13 Filters
With air filtration and indoor air quality being a top concern of many property professionals, more people have been wondering about the MERV-13 filters. In this video, Bill Palmer, preside [...]
Five Things I Wish I Knew Starting Out in Industrial Real Estate As I reflect on my career in commercial real estate, there have been a few critical take a ways to my success. Our roles as asset and property managers are to maintain our buildings to be solid long-term assets and keep [...]
Lighting Quality: Definitions, Options, and Methods of Measure Lighting quality is an important issue affecting much of the American populace. How do lights affect us? How is that measured? Knowing the terms and information surrounding light quality and measurement can assist proper [...]
Odd Hours: Building Operations Outside of the 8 to 5 At the end of the business day around 5:00 P.M., everyone is usually on their way out the door. Buildings clear out and shut down for the evening awaiting the opportunity to come back to life when tenants next return. Ho [...]
Technology’s Role in Building Community Having a sense of community in the commercial real estate industry is something that many consider to be a crucial aspect of the profession. Cynthia Mills with The Leaders Haven, who is an expert on interpersonal skills, [...]