Propmodo

APRIL 14, 2023

Not even the precarious economic climate is dissuading the commercial real estate industry from maintaining a commitment to ESG. With the clock ticking, these firms must constantly reevaluate whether they’re doing enough to support the real estate industry’s role in meeting ESG standards.

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Enertiv

JULY 5, 2023

If you’re remotely involved in sustainability, decarbonization or ESG in commercial real estate, you’ve likely heard of green leases. For those unfamiliar, a lease is “greened” when additional clauses aimed at improving collaboration between tenants and landlords around energy use, efficiency and reporting. sq ft to $5.36/sq

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Enertiv

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At CREtech NYC last week, every panelist, regardless of the original topic or their expertise, was asked about ESG. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to do a deep dive on the three key components of “ESG 2.0,” where the focus shifts from high-level reporting to specific steps to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.

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Enertiv

JULY 11, 2023

These generally fell into three broad categories: ESG reporting, building efficiency and health/wellness for occupants. ESG Reporting The new pressures to report on carbon emissions has changed the landlord-tenant relationship in a number of ways. Download Driving Action: The ESG 2.0 The solution here is straightforward.

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Realty Biz

MARCH 9, 2023

Nonetheless, if real estate companies focus more on energy-efficient buildings than on financial returns, sustainability will be more reachable. This kind of building is powered by renewable energy sources (solar power, wind power, hydroelectric energy) and uses zero fossil fuels on-site.

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Realty Biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Tilia Homes and Hopkins Homes have recently joined Octopus Energy's 'Zero Bills' program, offering this unique opportunity on several properties. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, we are delighted to join forces with Octopus Energy to offer drastically reduced home running costs for our customers. The result?

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Enertiv

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The first insight is that increasingly commercial tenants have their own ESG goals and reporting requirements. Seeing ESG Through a Tenant’s Lens Enertiv mostly serves landlords across every property type, from office to industrial, multifamily and retail. That is, providing monthly tenant utility bills based on submetered usage.

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Enertiv

MARCH 15, 2023

Most owners and operators have been hammered over the head by vendors promising energy cost reductions, often as a wide range of percent reductions. It seems like if you just added them up, you could save 175% on your energy costs! On the other hand, it’s remarkably straightforward with real-time energy monitoring.

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Enertiv

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is the final in our three-part series on implementing an action plan for aggressive carbon reduction targets, or as we call it: “ESG 2.0.” Owners and operators have been pitched continuously for a decade on the benefits of things like real-time monitoring, energy audits, demand response, and a host of high efficiency products.

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Enertiv

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The previous article was on energy savings. In the last edition of the Compounding Value series, we focused on energy savings. Unlike the earlier articles on productivity , the value of energy savings is obvious. There are $20,723 worth of direct energy savings annually. Up next: repairs and property damage.

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Enertiv

APRIL 11, 2022

Recently, you’ve been “volunforced” to head up the ESG committee. Even more difficult than the vague mandate to “do ESG,” there’s an explicit understanding that any new investments are to have a quantifiable ROI. So, let’s break ESG into three broad categories, each of which builds on the last. The value of ESG 1.0

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Enertiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

That’s because nearly every portfolio is under pressure to meet aggressive ESG goals. The problem with energy audits For a long time, sustainability teams lived in a completely different universe than asset managers and engineering. But with the ESG pressures mentioned above, this is rapidly changing.

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Enertiv

JULY 18, 2023

The panelists’ answers to this question were sincere: They have used their tenant engagement apps to publish ESG contacts + policies They have put green leases in place They have created guides on sustainable operations They have hosted a series of webinars on what tenants might be able to do. Download Driving Action: The ESG 2.0

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Enertiv

APRIL 24, 2023

Benchmarking Way back in 2009, New York City issued Local Law 84, which stated that buildings of a certain size had to submit their whole building energy and water data to the city for comparison. The Process Elsewhere With the rise of ESG, landlords began to get pressure to benchmark their portfolio no matter where their assets are.

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RIS Media

MARCH 22, 2022

NAR recently released its inaugural ESG+R Report, highlighting the association’s top sustainability accomplishments in 2021 within four categories: environment, social, governance and resilience (ESG+R).

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RIS Media

JANUARY 11, 2022

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) has released its inaugural ESG+R Report , highlighting the association’s top sustainability accomplishments in 2021 within four categories: environment, social, governance and resilience. For the complete list of 2021 achievements, view NAR’s ESG+R Report here: [link].

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Enertiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You and the other asset managers have just left (yet another) internal meeting on ESG. Take this most recent ESG meeting. Investors are demanding ESG measurement and disclosure. Still Working on ESG Measurement and Disclosure? Still Working on ESG Measurement and Disclosure? It’s 5 pm on a Thursday.

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Enertiv

MAY 17, 2021

ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting is getting a lot of focus in commercial real estate circles these days. No doubt, some of the focus is driven by genuine altruism from owners and operators, but likely a bigger factor is that portfolios are finding that they can’t compete for capital without a strong ESG program in place.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

energy consumption used in the residential and commercial sector, the housing industry is front and center in creating solutions to this problem. Most recently, he served as a member of the company’s Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) steering committee. With nearly 40% of total U.S.

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Enertiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Why ‘jobs to be done’ makes sense for the net zero journey in CRE Just two reasons: #1: Too many teams are struggling with reporting Obviously, reporting utility data through frameworks like Energy Star is critical to any portfolio’s ESG efforts. But at the end of the day, the 100-page energy audit PDF collects dust.

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Enertiv

MAY 1, 2023

Near term targets have several benefits From an actual carbon emissions perspective, emissions avoided today are worth more than those avoided later Near term targets can more easily be tied to specific actions and optimizations It creates momentum and “wins” in the organization But energy efficiency is “asset level,” right?

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Enertiv

JANUARY 30, 2024

Up next: base building energy efficiency. As such, vacant spaces continue to consume energy and water, ultimately adding to thousands of unnecessary dollars spent by the property. This is the third in Enertiv's latest series, The Compounding Value of Technology, where we explore how technology’s value builds on itself.

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Enertiv

MAY 24, 2023

Energy Star Portfolio Manager is the most obvious, as it serves as the foundation for the “E” of many ESG reporting frameworks, including GRESB. At the same time, Energy Star Portfolio Manager accounts were set up and synced with the data in Enertiv. The data is captured, in real time, and available to landlords.

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Enertiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Part I on carbon reporting can be found here and Part II on tenant engagement around ESG can be found here. All of this can tie in neatly to the tenant engagement around ESG. This is the third and final article in our series focused on triple net assets. Get a tailored demo here

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Enertiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The annual report to investors is coming up and you know they’re going to grill you on ESG. Unfortunately, that often means being limited to the energy consumed by the lighting in the parking lot. About 10 years ago, they were billed as the solution to bring energy usage to life in buildings. Their answer: do the best you can.

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Enertiv

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Summary ESG has moved from a nice-to-have to an integral part of a responsible fiduciary COVID-19 will necessarily cause setbacks in ESG goals Owners and asset managers can benefit from more effective communication about the drivers of ESG metrics and their strategy going forward Even five years ago, ESG programs were nice-to-haves.

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Real Trends

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Realtors are concerned about the effects of climate change and are working to promote sustainability, both in the housing market and otherwise, according to a new Environment, Social, Governance and Resilience (ESG+R) Report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Enertiv

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Less than two years later, Washington DC established Building Energy Performance Standards that will impose fines, according to a special task force’s determination, for buildings larger than 50,000 square feet. Some say that US building energy laws are about 5-10 years behind European Laws. ESG Reporting Still in the Works?

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Enertiv

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The flip side A few weeks ago, we wrote an article on the triple net lease and ESG and how landlords are bridging the gap to get utility data they don’t have direct access to. Historically, energy rules developed in New York City and California tend to spread across the country in the following decade.

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RIS Media

APRIL 14, 2022

Consumer demand for smart, energy-efficient homes and high-performance, sustainable features is on the rise. Additionally, 55% of agents found consumers to be somewhat or very interested in sustainability, and 15% of respondents had clients ask for advice about energy efficiency upgrades very often or often.

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Enertiv

MARCH 16, 2021

Long before ESG was the hot topic in commercial real estate, owners understood that their ability to save costs through energy efficiency was limited. Finally, more and more tenants are looking to be ENERGY STAR Recognized for their own ESG goals. That’s not to say that reducing base building costs is not worth pursuing.

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Enertiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Energy savings has become a polarizing topic in commercial real estate. Some believe that direct energy savings to landlord-controlled utilities is the only way technology can deliver value when it comes to building operations (one of the reasons we’ve created this series). The building works, but not optimally (it wastes energy).

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GeekEstate

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Mainstreaming ESG: With New York’s Local Law 97 requiring buildings over 25,000 square feet “to meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions limits as of 2024” (with even stricter limits coming by 2030), and Washington approving legislation that makes it “cumbersome and expensive for [residential] builders to meet energy efficiency (..)

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Propmodo

JUNE 26, 2023

The industry is growing, driven by legislation at all levels of government aimed at using less fossil fuels and more alternative energy. Adding language around charging stations can help both landlords and occupiers meet ESG goals and support green building certifications. This is just another example of what’s known as green leases.

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Propmodo

APRIL 9, 2024

These are some of the most stringent building standards that exist in the world at the moment, and they are increasingly being eyed by the real estate industry as a way to meet both carbon emissions rules and ESG goals. And now, there is new technology emerging that could help make these evaluations happen faster and at a lower cost.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE®) has launched The LeadingRE Sustainable Series, a campaign designed to shine a light on the newest sustainable properties, technology, initiatives, policy, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) in the global real estate industry.

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Enertiv

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the end of the day, we’ve seen reductions of 1-5 cents per square foot when consolidating workflows across energy & ESG reporting, maintenance, tenant billing and capital planning (back-of-house operations). Join Our Newsletter Thank you for Signing Up Please correct the marked field(s) below.

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