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Urban Land Institute: Sustainability Pre-bid Checklist

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ULI Greenprint members came together to address the challenges of insufficient information on sustainability performance and climate risk of potential acquisitions at the pre-bid stage, creating a Sustainability Pre-bid Checklist to help the buyer, seller, and broker communities coalesce around consistent sustainability data sharing and improve communication in the pre-bid process. The checklist is relevant […]

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Better Buildings Partnership: Green Lease Toolkit

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To stimulate leadership and support the delivery of better buildings across the commercial real estate sector, the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) has today launched its revitalized Green Lease Toolkit. The comprehensive online Toolkit contains legal clauses in nearly 20 key areas, covering topics such as building management, circular economy, waste and renewable energy. Its dynamic

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Green Leasing in DC

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Washington, DC’s leadership has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2032. To reach this goal, the District requires that building owners report energy and water consumption annually through a benchmarking program. It also requires large buildings to meet energy efficiency standards as part of the Building Energy Performance Standards law. The Building Innovation

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Retail RTU Green Lease Language

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IMT and the U.S Department of Energy’s Better Buildings have developed this resource guide on rooftop unit (RTU) best practices for retail leases. This document provides lease clauses to facilitate RTU efficiency in retail leases for both retail tenants and commercial real estate landlords. This document recommends insertion of clause language into standard commercial leases

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Green Leasing Info Sheet

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Green leasing (also known as energy-aligned, high-performance, or energy-efficient leasing) aligns the financial and environmental goals of landlords and tenants to work together to save money, conserve resources, and ensure the efficient operation of buildings. This resource, created by the Institute for Market Transformation, is an information sheet that outlines the barriers, eligibility requirements and

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Overcoming Seven Key Landlord-Tenant Hurdles to Make Ambitious Carbon Reductions a Reality

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New York City’s Local Law 97 (LL97) is one of the most ambitious U.S. carbon reduction policies for buildings and one of the first laws in the country to require significant whole-building reductions of carbon emissions. Despite this ambitious policy, the reality is that tenants control up to 70% of energy use in buildings. Therefore, achieving New

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