Many of you have no doubt already read the article that the National Real Estate Investor ran online as the lead article yesterday. But for those of you who didn’t, an excerpt from the article is below. For the full article, visit NREI.
“Companies can make important changes without necessarily expanding their staff, says David Gottfried, founder of both the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council. He also sits on SRI’s advisory board. “What we’ve found in working with portfolios is that a lot of those practices [starting with energy management] might not even be technologies — they might be human capital investments, and training, and different ways of doing things that staff could do without even hiring people.”
In short, Gottfried explains, better property and asset management, data mining, intelligent controls and continuous commissioning can help bring down costs and make office buildings operate more efficiently. Gottfried also is CEO of sustainability advisory firm Regenerative Ventures based in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
The full article also quotes Randy Knox, director of workplace solutions for Adobe Systems, and Brenna Walraven, director of national property management at USAA Real Estate Co., who are both leaders in the global move to more sustainable facilities.