The recent increase in social awareness and efforts to live and work in a manner that can be accommodated by the earth’s natural systems provides endless opportunities to create new, more sustainable buildings. That being said, fundamental good design has always been smart and sustainable. Building owners must assess building systems to identify opportunities for sustainable and high-performance enhancements that can influence operational costs. It is RED's goal, working primarily in the realm of existing buildings, to identify improvement opportunities that are physically viable and economic to owners and managers of commercial real estate.
RED's value is in identifying opportunities to improve the bottom line through operating efficiency, maintenance, and well placed capital. Real Estate Diligence's evaluation criteria is consistent with the US Green Building Council (USGBC) perspective, thereby further enabling client judgment as to the amount of effort necessary to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building credit criteria in a quest for potential LEED Certification and consequential market benefits.
Prioritization across an entire portfolio can be a daunting task. Individual properties or components present unique opportunities as well as challenges. Owners and managers must decide how they want to approach the real estate they control, possibly commissioning an energy audit or screening properties for potential added efficiencies using a performance benchmark or LEED Gap Analysis. We believe combining this effort with the initial acquisition due diligence, capital planning, or auditing assessments clarifies the decisions.
All Real Estate Diligence's services can be customized to your needs; “Consulting begins with the development of a scope of service”. Upon collection of the data, the opportunities to mitigate negative and promote positive environmental impacts; optimize life cycle costs/benefits; and optimize external costs/benefits can be presented in a high-performance building assessment.
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