How can a Real Estate Manager prepare their property for LEED EB certification?
A great place to start is by adhering to CBRE’s 2009 Standards of Sustainability. Seven of the 10 standards are directly related to LEED credit point potential including implementing a green cleaning program, a comprehensive recycling program, an environmentally friendly landscape management plan, and conducting a baseline waste stream audit. In combination with the Standards of Sustainability, each site should move toward installing only low mercury lamps where possible and retrofitting or installing new restroom fixtures to meet industry and LEED standards. Although there has been, and will continue to be, a focus on energy use reductions, I believe that water use and desired reductions will become just as important (or more so) in the next 5 to 10 years. In addition, the only true way to understand the status of a particular building as it relates to the LEED EB rating system is to complete a gap analysis assessment. Our CBRE Sustainability Group has the capability to perform a gap
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