Jun 16, 2022 | Events, Homepage
Presented by Building Owners & Managers Association International and BUILDINGS
Session Information
Investors are asking about, and large corporate tenants are announcing commitments around, carbon neutrality. The conversation is moving past certifications, efficiency and into actual decarbonization. This presents building owners and managers with a major opportunity to cost effectively develop a plan for net zero. Hear real estate professionals discuss the different paths and approaches towards carbon neutrality goals. You’ll learn how to incorporate decarbonization strategies into your existing sustainability practices, as well as the different paths and approaches companies are taking.
Panel
- Megan Basore, VP, Corporate Responsibility, Duke Realty
- Michelle German, Director, ESG & Sustainability, LBA Realty
- Janelle Penny, Editor in Chief, Buildings
- Brenna Walraven, President & CEO, Corporate Sustainability Strategies
When
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Where
LIVE
Nashville, TN
More Information & Registration
About BOMA
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is the partner individuals in the commercial real estate industry choose to maximize value for their careers, organizations and assets.
Jun 16, 2022 | Events, Homepage
Presented by Building Owners & Managers Association International and BUILDINGS
Session Information
The pandemic has raised expectations for healthy and safe indoor spaces, and building occupants are hungry for science-based information. This session will show you how to use certifications to validate that the products, processes and spaces in your portfolio meet the highest standards for promoting healthy indoor environments. Learn how certifications can help you protect the health of building occupants, promote social equity for members of marginalized communities, and eliminate hazards in your supply chain. The session will include discussion of the latest developments in certification programs, covering turnkey solutions, the health and sustainability attributes building occupants are looking for today, and how to meaningfully communicate about the impacts and benefits of your programs.
Focus
- Latest trends in health and wellness for commercial real estate
- Using certifications to ensure practices and spaces that protect the health and safety of all building occupants
- How certifications can help promote social equity for members of marginalized communities and eliminate hazards in the supply chain
- Implementing health and wellness certifications in a large portfolio
- How third-party certifications ensure delivery of sustainability and health and wellness goals along with how to communicate their value to tenants and stakeholder
Panel
- Beau Daane, Director, Sustainable Development, Harvard Maintenance
- Doug Gatlin, CEO, Green Seal Inc.
- Robert Phinney, VP for Sustainability, Vornado Realty Trust
- Brenna Walraven, President & CEO, Corporate Sustainability Strategies
When
Monday, June 27, 2022
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where
LIVE
Nashville, TN
More Information & Registration
About BOMA
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is the partner individuals in the commercial real estate industry choose to maximize value for their careers, organizations and assets.
Sep 14, 2021 | Events, Homepage
Presented by Building Owners and Managers Association International Conference & Expo
Session Information
Tenants are increasingly not only looking for the best located, well-built buildings, but also for how they can meet their own sustainability objectives without sacrificing business success.
Focus
- Addressing challenges and opportunities to support greater ESG outcomes in net leased, tenant-controlled environments
- Best practices for addressing utility data and efficiency upgrades
- Leveraging opportunities for sustainability within distribution, warehouse, and logistics real estate (which also applies to any net leased asset – retail, office, mixed-use)
Panel
When
October 8, 2021
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Where
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
More Information & Registration
About BOMA International Conference & Expo
This year’s theme “Boom. Everything’s Different” speaks to the immense disruption, change, and opportunity that today’s commercial real estate professionals are navigating. The BOMA 2021 education program has been designed with the challenges of this moment in mind, offering more than 40 sessions on relevant topics like the evolving workplace, workforce development, and emerging technologies. Organized across eight distinct focus areas, attendees can customize their itinerary and select topics corresponding with their own educational needs. Whether it’s exposure to new technology, tips for increasing asset performance, or a fresh approach to a frequent tenant issue, seasoned industry veterans and emerging professionals alike can expect to learn something new at BOMA 2021.
About BOMA International
Founded in 1907, the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is a federation of U.S. local associations and global affiliates. The leading trade association for commercial real estate professionals for more than 100 years, it represents the owners, managers, service providers, and other property professionals of all commercial building types, including office, industrial, medical, corporate, and mixed-use. BOMA International is the partner individuals in the commercial real estate industry choose to maximize value for their careers, organizations, and assets. Its mission is to advance a vibrant commercial real estate industry through advocacy, influence, and knowledge.
Feb 19, 2021 | Events, Homepage
Webinar presented by BOMA San Francisco
Are you interested in learning more about the certifications you can pursue to market your building as healthy? Come hear from two industry experts, Brenna Walraven, President & CEO of Corporate Sustainability Strategies, and Craig Sheehy, President & CEO of Envision Realty Services, as they impart their knowledge and experience with the Fitwel, WELL, and UL Verified Healthy Building certifications.
They will provide market context for the increase in investor and tenant interest in pursuing such certifications, as well as discuss components, and anticipated costs for each.
Presenters
- Craig Sheehy, CPM, President and CEO, EnVision Realty Services
- Brenna Walraven, BOMA Fellow, BOMI-HP, CPM, RPA, President and CEO, Corporate Sustainability Strategies
Date & Time
February 25, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
Registration
BOMA San Francisco
About BOMA
Building Owners and Manager Association (BOMA) is the most influential and effective advocacy, recruitment, and training organization for the U.S. commercial real estate industry. BOMA San Francisco represents more than 72 million square feet of office space in San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin and Sonoma counties, and is federated with BOMA International and BOMA California, the voices of the commercial real estate industry in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. For more information visit www.bomasf.org.
Sep 14, 2020 | Articles, Homepage
USGBC’s recently announced economic recovery strategy and vision, Healthy People in Healthy Places equals a Healthy Economy, articulates the interconnected role buildings and communities play in people’s health and the economy at large.
To make this strategy actionable, USGBC’s Healthy Economy Forum, held August 4-5, 2020, convened industry experts and frontline practitioners to provide insights and strategies for making our spaces healthier and more resilient.
At the forum, Brenna Walraven, President and CEO of Corporate Sustainability Strategies, together with Simon Turner, Owner and Founder of Building Cognition, Henry Chamberlain, President and Chief Operating Officer of BOMA International, Ben Myers, Vice President of Sustainability of Boston Properties, and Alex Spilger, Senior Vice President, Director of Sustainability of Cushman & Wakefield presented The Business Case for Healthy Buildings in a Post-COVID Era.
Notable references in the report include:
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
- Simon Turner, Owner and Founder of Building Cognition, noted productivity is highest when room temperature is set to 70-73 degrees and proposed building occupants will start to demand better ventilation with an increased cost of $14-$40 per person each year.
- Technology can play a key role in building trust. As Brenna Walraven, President and CEO of Corporate Sustainability Strategies, said, “There is an app for everything, and that includes indoor air quality.”
Active Design
- According to Walraven, inactivity results in $54 billion in health care costs and $14 billion in lost productivity.
Resiliency – Intersectionality
- Boston Properties’ Sustainability Program approaches this definition from an intersectional lens, combining climate action, resilience and social good, while prioritizing human health. This approach has been and continues to be shaped by watershed moments, whether it be the 2012 Superstorm Sandy to this year’s pandemic.
- Ben Myers, Vice President of Sustainability at Boston Properties, explained how they convened thought leaders and specialists to develop a plan of action for four phases of these events: retreat, return, restore and resilient. Grounded in science, their plan lays out five durable changes: physical distancing enablement, contact transmission elimination, IAQ management and expertise advancement (engineering expertise, monitoring mechanisms), cleaning and disinfection enhancement and shared responsibility and discipline for mitigation and containment (health screening, communication, testing, etc.).
Technology
- Henry Chamberlain, President and Chief Operating Officer, BOMA International, spoke about the use of sensors and cleaning, touchless or hands-free workplaces and virtual technologies as the new normal.
The Report summarizes the forum’s discussion and is the first step to a longer roadmap for the implementation of our healthy places for a healthy economy vision.
Full Healthy Economy Forum Report
