Making the Business Case for High-Performance Buildings
This course explains what commercial practitioners can do to take advantage of long- and short-term sustainability trends and best practices.
Commercial Buildings
Commercial buildings in real estate markets across the U.S. are an important puzzle piece in establishing high-performance building stock. Below is a collection of IMT resources that highlight energy efficiency opportunities in commercial buildings.
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Providing Local Market Support for a Building Performance Standard
This brief for policymakers explores why a city should consider offering a high-performance hub to help building owners, designers, contractors, and operators meet city climate and performance goals.
Understanding the Business of Real Estate: Information for the Successful Implementation of a Building Performance Policy
This document aims to enhance city personnel perspectives on how the real estate industry functions and foster more meaningful conversations with stakeholders.
Green Lease Language Examples
In traditional leases, neither the landlord nor the tenant are incentivized to invest in energy efficiency improvements that can lead to high-performance properties that benefit both entities. However, green leases, also known as energy-aligned leases, help to break down barriers. This document consolidates a variety of green lease language options for more efficiently designed and … Continued
Rising to the Challenge
To our partners, colleagues, and stakeholders: As we wrap up 2019, I’d like to pause for a moment to reflect on recent accomplishments and discuss how the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) is approaching some big changes I see emerging in the decade ahead. As many of you know, I was thrilled to step into … Continued
Five Things You Should Know About Commercial Real Estate Action in 2019
Across the real estate sector, we are seeing more commitment to climate change action, from increases in investor action to rising stakeholder pressure.
High-Performance Building Hub to Help District of Columbia Real Estate and Building Professionals Achieve Ambitious Climate Goals
IMT will manage the city’s new one-stop-shop for building performance standards.
Green Lease Leaders: Using the Lease to Create More Sustainable Coworking Spaces
Tenants searching for modern, flexible, and modular offices are finding green leases that account for energy efficiency, sustainability, and health & wellness offer a platform to ensure their own corporate and individual goals are met.
Overcoming Seven Key Landlord-Tenant Hurdles to Make Ambitious Carbon Reductions a Reality
This resource examines hurdles that NYC landlords and tenants may face in compliance to Local Law 97 and identifies next steps for collaboratively improving building performance and driving down energy use and associated carbon emissions across the city.
Philadelphia Passes New Buildings Tune-Up Law: What You Need to Know
To cut carbon pollution by 200,000 metric tons, large commercial buildings in Philadelphia are now subject to a building tune-up requirement to improve energy efficiency.