Healthy Certifications & Ratings

Healthy Certifications & Ratings

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.

Healthy Economy Forum Report by U.S. Green Building Council

Healthy Economy Forum Report by U.S. Green Building Council

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

BOMA International Tops List of 100 Associations That Will Save the World

BOMA International Tops List of 100 Associations That Will Save the World

Congratulations Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International for being named one of the “100 Associations That Will Save the World” by the American Society of Associations Executives (ASAE).

 

BOMA was recognized for its outstanding sustainability work and is featured on as the top example for sustainability, which is attributed to BOMA’s W2 (Water and Waste) Challenge.

 

BOMA’s W2 Challenge

The W2 Challenge was a groundbreaking, two-year program designed to encourage buildings in the United States to benchmark water usage and waste output and implement best practices to improve performance.

The W2 Challenge focused on securing the largest and broadest participation as possible, wherein participants committed to enter water and/or waste data at least quarterly in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager® over the 2018 and 2019 calendar year.  The challenge was open to all real estate sector properties, from commercial to residential to retail.

  • More than 2,000 buildings participated the United States
  • 412 cities were represented
  • 493 million square feet of property were shared with the W2 Challenge in Portfolio Manager

 

BOMA’s Historic Pursuit of Improved Building Performance and Sustainability

Beginning in the mid-1990s, sustainability practices gained traction in building design and construction, and programs such as Green Globes, Leadership in Energy Efficient Design (LEED), and others aimed took aim at energy-efficiency standards for new construction.

However, there was a gap.  Once construction was complete, what strategies could building operators and managers use to make older buildings more sustainable?

Recognizing this, BOMA filled the gap with education and comparability data that would enable building operators and managers to understand, implement, and improve strategies necessary to improve performance and increase energy efficiencies.

BOMA’s tireless pursuit of improving building performance and sustainability is evident in its many programs, which have also won awards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and have achieved the coveted ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence.

 

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Visit ASAE for more information about BOMA & Sustainability: Benchmarks for W2 and Preserving ENERGY STAR as a Free and Voluntary Program and ASAE Research Foundation Case Study: BOMA Benchmarking in Pursuit of Sustainability.

 

Visit Facility Executives for more information about BOMA’s W2 Challenge and Champions.

The Business Case for Healthy Buildings in a Post-COVID Era

The Business Case for Healthy Buildings in a Post-COVID Era

Healthy Economy Forum by presented by USGBC

 

Healthy people in healthy places equals a healthy economy.

 

The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for years to come – on the economy, on people, and on our way of life. Join Corporate Sustainability Strategies and industry leaders as we share our knowledge on “The Business Case for Healthy Buildings in a Post-COVID Era.”

 

The world we return to might look nothing like the one we’ve left behind. To support the global recovery, our ideas must be relevant to people and scalable across different building types, new markets and diverse contexts throughout the world. This requires new steps, discipline of measuring our progress and disruptive thinking.

 

USGBC is outlining a series of actions and priorities that will support the global recovery effort and leverage the power of our community to shape a healthier future for all.

 

Building Operations Session: The Business Case for Healthy Buildings in a Post-COVID Era

 

Panelists

 

Date & Time

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

11:30 AM ET

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Healthy Economy Forum by USGBC will answer questions such as:

  • How will we build a healthier, more sustainable future for current and future generations?
  • How can we enhance our current design, construction, and operational strategies to ensure our spaces are healthy?
  • How will we remain resilient against future threats to our global health, like climate change?
  • How do we communicate the risk, health, and safety of places where people live, work, learn and play?
  • How can we ensure the trust people have in feeling safe and healthy in the spaces where they live, work, learn, and play?
  • How do we increase confidence in healthy places through planning, measurement, and recognition?
  • How do we demonstrate the health and economic impact of our spaces?
  • How will we rebuild our economy and replace unprecedented job losses around the world?
  • Which partner organizations or policymakers can join us on this vision? Who is missing from this conversation?

 

Full Schedule

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

11:00 AM ET Forum convenes

6:00 PM ET Forum adjourns

 

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

11:00 AM ET Forum convenes

6:00 PM ET Forum adjourns

 

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Unlocking Hidden Value in Class B/C Office Buildings

Unlocking Hidden Value in Class B/C Office Buildings

For Class B and C office buildings, there is a largely untapped business opportunity to improve their energy performance.

Multiple constraints have led Class B/C buildings to adopt energy efficient practices into their general business practice at a slower rate than Class A assets. However, incorporating energy efficiency investments and green leasing clauses into these buildings provides an excellent opportunity to add long-term value, through lower energy costs and better alignment with tenants.

To provide an outline for how to simplify and streamline energy efficiency and green leasing opportunities for Class B/C office buildings that are appropriately tailored to the reality of the market, Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) worked with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and Urban Land Institute (ULI) to create the Unlocking Hidden Value in Class B/C Office Buildings report.

Join BOMA, RMI, and ULI for this webinar highlighting key takeaways from the report and how to overcome the traditional challenges to energy efficiency in the Class B/C market. The webinar will also feature experts from both the property owner and property manager perspective speaking to how they gained a competitive edge from implementing energy efficiency and green leasing in Class B/C office buildings.

 

Learning Objectives

  • How to get started on energy efficiency in a Class B/C office building by understanding local efficiency regulations, identifying opportunities to improve, and benchmarking performance over time.
  • How to optimize resources to prioritize low-cost, high-value energy efficiency projects to achieve cost savings, energy savings, and buildings that are more comfortable to tenants.
  • How to reduce the cost-burden of capital-intensive energy efficiency retrofits through different financing options.
  • How to modernize the standard lease form to improve the economics of efficiency projects and engage tenants.

 

Presenters

  • Bill Moebius, Senior Vice President/Regional Director, Peloton Commercial Real Estate
  • Brenna Walraven, President and CEO, Corporate Sustainability Strategies
  • Joey Cathcart, Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Matt Praske, Director of Energy and Sustainability, WashREIT
  • Marta Schantz (Moderator), SVP, Greenprint Center for Building Performance, Urban Land Institute
  • Joanne Arnold, Director of Research and TOBY, BOMA International

 

Date and Time

Thursday, May 28, 2020
1:00PM EDT

 

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