Making the Case
There is a growing volume of evidence and industry research that shows sustainability execution reaps rewards both environmentally and financially over the short, medium and long term. In fact, increasingly sustainability performance of organizations is an indication not just of well run real estate and companies, but a indication of quality leadership and management. Sustainability execution, as shown in the many reports below, drives:
- Improved financial performance • improved revenue, lower operating costs, enhanced net operating income (NOI), profitability and asset value
- Improved investor recruitment and retention • investors increasingly are looking for objective sustainability performance and corporate social responsibility
- Employee satisfaction, retention and recruitment
- Reduced risk • legislative, building code and regulatory requirements increasingly demand better efficiency as well as more transparency around issues of sustainability performance
- Tenant engagement, satisfaction, comfort and retention • improved efficiency and high performance sustainable operations allows for better indoor air quality, better control of temperature and cleaner more comfortable space. These comfort benefits are not only better but when combined with a Sustainability Strategy to engage with tenants around these efforts also drive deeper, longer term tenant relationships. These have been shown to improve tenant retention, maintaining and improving rent income, reducing tenant improvement costs associated with re-tenanting spaces and thus not only higher NOI but also better cash flow.
Top Ten Sustainability Acronyms and Why They Matter
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Industry Reports Show Value of Investing in Sustainability
BuildUp 2030 Framework for the Transformation of Real Estate | IMT
What Will It Take? The Path to Carbon Free Buildings by 2050 | IMT
Green is Good Series | Cushman & Wakefield
Environmental Justice and Real Estate | ULI
Five Ways that ESG Creates Value
Financial Impact of Healthy Buildings
NBI: 2020 Getting to Zero Buildings List
Building the Financial Business Case for Resilience (cont. by CSS)
Optimizing Community Infrastructure (cont. by CSS)
Embedding Sustainability (cont. by CSS)
Best Practices for Leasing NZE Buildings (cont. by CSS)
G4 Reporting & Disclosures
Sustainability Disclosure
DOE Business Case for Retrofitting
DOE EIA Energy Outlook 2015
Unlocking ROI
UNEPFI Sustainability Metrics
Economics of Green Retrofits
Studies that Prove the Business Case
PWC Sustainability Valuation
Oracle Energy Paper
Value of Green Buildings
MSCI World ESG Index
Managing Indoor Air Quality Roundtable
Managing Indoor Air Quality Briefing
LEED Adobe Statistics 2013
Investor Strategies for ESG
Green Building Asset Valuation
Green Building Adoption Index 2014
Does Green Pay Off?
Deloitte Breakthrough for Sustainability
Business Case For Green Building
Assessing Value of Green Buildings
2011 EEI IFMA Results Report
According to a Rocky Mountain Institute Review of Sustainability Analysis & Research
Harvard Green Loan Fund
700 6th St LEED EBOM
BLD 2008 Whos Who
La Paz Energy Star
Potomac Yard Garage Lighting Retrofit
Residences at La Cantera Water Conservation
Returns on Resilience
The Sustainable Business Case
