The Color of Business
CBRE helps our clients improve their green building performance in a way that boosts ROI and meets their strategic business objectives. View CEO Brett White’s take on the business of green, and how opportunity and social responsibility intersect in the marketplace. Watch video The LEED® EB Experts
More than 150 LEED EB certifications (64 MSF)
99% success on all LEED EB points submitted
325 LEED EB projects registered globally
500+ completed assessments (150 MSF)
Dedicated in-house team with O+M specialty View map The Energy Specialists
CBRE helps maximize the value of your energy costs, delivering an integrated range of energy management services that leverage innovative technology and the industry’s leading vendor/ partner network.
Learn more The Thought Leaders
In collaboration with academics and industry partners, CBRE has led the largest green building study of its kind, demonstrating the importance of insight into real-world sustainability issues – as well as the value of green for getting ahead in the market. 2011 Green Building Study Sustained Excellence
As a five-time ENERGY STAR “Partner of the Year,” CBRE is committed to working closely with our partners to reduce energy consumption in the buildings we manage and to move the industry forward through improved operating performance. Read more Socially Responsible
CBRE has been selected from more than 100 outsourcing service providers around the world as the first-ever recipient of the Global Outsourcing Social Responsibility Impact Award. The award recognizes responsible business practices, including CBRE’s dedication to environmental sustainability. Learn More Our Occupied Space
Best practices established through the course of becoming carbon neutral are common practice in CBRE-occupied buildings. As the industry leader in green, CBRE employees make energy and resource conservation a matter of habit in their personal space. Carbon neutral $100 Million in Savings
CBRE’s OHMEGA $100 Million Energy Challenge is driving greater energy savings into our clients’ accounts. With a focus on client service and creative ways to reduce costs, the challenge has already identified $22 million in cost savings. Read more |
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Building on Green
CBRE offers an integrated platform of energy and sustainability services that reduce energy costs, improve building performance and drive greater value into your brand. As the global leader in commercial real estate services, we understand both the social responsibility and the financial imperative of managing resources wisely, and that your greatest asset in business is green.
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CBRE helps our clients achieve new levels of business efficiency by incorporating energy use, operational processes, vendor partnerships and financial considerations into an integrated energy and sustainability model that supports continuous building and portfolio improvements.
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 Consultative
Need help mapping
a plan? CBRE can assist in developing a sustainability roadmap that adopts CORE strategies to achieve your corporate objectives. By conducting a comprehensive diagnostic, identifying opportunities and supporting implementation, CBRE Green Consulting helps guide the improvement process towards long-term organizational change with quantifiable outcomes.
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Energy Program Management
Energy represents up to 40% of operating costs for office buildings – even higher for some industrial properties. CBRE has built a network of energy program professionals to manage our clients’ energy consumption. Utilizing best practices, these energy managers offer CBRE-developed solutions to help clients gain a competitive advantage while driving towards peak energy performance.
Strategies implemented include:
- Strategic Program Planning
- Utility Data and Carbon Footprint Management
- Demand/Supply-Side Energy Management
- Performance Reporting
- Training and Awareness Programs
Contact: Peter Scarpelli
Energy Services
As CBRE extends our services across large, dispersed portfolios, we rely on formal training and written policies and procedures to ensure adherence to best practices and consistency in delivery. CBRE’s Playbooks assist account teams with facilitating and implementing world-class energy management programs. Through a holistic approach and integrated platform, CBRE delivers consistent service and peak energy performance across your portfolio.
View: Peak Performance Pyramid
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CBRE UtilityInsight
UtilityInsight is a web-based tool which provides a collaborative work environment for all stakeholders to ensure consistent delivery of service and interface with all suppliers. For clients, this means effective management of utilities to identify, prioritize and implement projects that achieve sustainable savings across an entire portfolio.
Below demonstrates average energy savings using UtilityInsight:
UtilityInsight delivers these key advantages:
- Comprehensive views of utility data and program activity by portfolio, region site or other category
- Comparison tools and analytics
- Critical team training and development
- Accurate performance tracking and assessment through a customized dashboard
Contact Steven Schimmel to learn how CBRE can help your business reduce costs by integrating UtlityInsight into your work flow.
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Certify Your Success
Around the globe, green building certification programs are becoming the standard for validating the sustainability of new and existing real estate. Wherever clients are in the world, CBRE can help improve operating efficiencies and document cost savings to provide owners and occupiers of commercial property with a market-leading economic advantage.
 Going Global
CBRE provides expert support in green building certification standards for BREEAM, NABERS, ISO 14001, LEED and others. To learn more about achieving certification in your region, click on the map below or consult CBRE’s:
Green Building Certification Guide
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Doorway to LEED®
 CBRE offers the industry’s leading team of consultants to deliver proven USGBC® LEED strategies throughout the real estate lifecycle. From greening tenant build-outs to entire portfolios, CBRE provides an integrated platform of LEED certification solutions to help clients achieve their sustainability goals. Select a LEED rating system below for more information or view our LEED Projects Map to see all of CBRE’s U.S. LEED certified projects.
LEED for Commercial Interiors
LEED for Core and Shell
LEED for Existing Buildings
LEED for New Construction
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Occupiers
If you’re in the process of developing projects with green performance objectives, CBRE can assist in reviewing your standard bid and contract documents, providing revisions and additions, if necessary, and negotiating on your behalf.
CBRE services include:
- Initial analysis of potential LEED credits for LEED CI based on the building location, base design and offered space
- Negotiation of Work Letter provisions during proposal negotiation process
- Negotiation of applicable LEED credits required by building ownership during proposal and lease
- Review and final negotiation of lease document to ensure enhanced cost savings and compliance of negotiated terms
- Participation of project management and leasing representatives in the LEED charette
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Owners
CBRE helps building owners assess their real estate goals and implement strategies that align with their business objectives. The key is to engage CBRE early, ensuring that sustainability is integrated into each phase of development.
CBRE provides:
- Communications on the value of occupying sustainable buildings
- Innovative ways to strategically position and market your product within a target market
- Access to the best advice and technical expertise vis-à-vis capital improvements, operations and maintenance
- Additional resources and education channels available in the growing area of sustainability
Search by Market
Click here to locate a U.S.-based CBRE green brokerage expert.
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Green Building Valuation
CBRE is the leading provider of real estate appraisal services, with regional and branch appraisal offices located worldwide and in more than 60 U.S. metropolitan markets. CBRE employs over 400 appraisers in the U.S. alone, including a growing number of LEED Accredited Professionals. Our green building valuation team offers clients deep experience in identifying green building elements and determining how these impact a property’s value.
Property types include:
- Office
- Industrial
- Multi-family
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Special purpose
- All others
Contact: Robert Hensley for a complimentary review of your property type and potential services match.
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Services
Accurate and reliable valuations are critical to the success of every real estate investment. CBRE delivers dependable valuations with fast turnaround.
Services include:
- Green building cost benefit analysis
- Green building market and feasibility analysis
- Operating expense consultation
- Market rent estimates
- Lease analyses
- Valuation for mortgage lending
- Arbitration and consultation
- Capitalization rate consultation
- Lease analysis
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Green Building Study
CBRE is collaborating with leading academics and industry partners to shed light on the value of green and to make new information available in a way that benefits the commercial real estate market.
One of our most important efforts revolves around the ongoing study, “Do Green Buildings Make Dollars & Sense?” First established with Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate (University of San Diego) in 2009 as the first and largest of its kind, the CBRE study has expanded from delivering results on productivity in the green building workplace to the financial impact of LEED certification for owners, occupiers and building managers.
Click below to view results of a specific study:
2011 Green Building Study
Recorded release at Greenbuild 2011, Toronto; points out higher rental and occupation rates
2010 Green Building Study
Introduces building ownership and management perspectives, as well as impact of LEED
2009 Green Building Study
Shows tenants in green buildings claim higher productivity and fewer sick days
Contact Dave Pogue to learn more.
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Taking the Lead
Information on the latest market trends, as well as perspective on the broader changes impacting the global real estate market, provide critical insight for industry leaders to make well-informed business decisons. CBRE has teamed up with thought leaders in a variety of related disciplines to make this information readily available, and to add our own point of view on what sets green buildings apart – and how owners and occupiers can use genuine knowledge to their business advantage.Highest and best use studies
Webinar Series
CBRE leads a quarterly webinar series that examines a variety of green building issues, from required policy mandates to renewable energy and creative building technology. Contact Lisa Colicchio to attend our next webinar.
Hosted by Dave Pogue, CBRE, and Norm Miller, University of San Diego, prior webinars include:
What's NEXT (pdf) I What's NEXT (audio)
Featuring Andrew Burr, IMT; Kristen Taddonio, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Robert Hutchinson, Rocky Mountain Institute
Valuing Sustainable Real Estate (pdf)
Featuring Nils Kok, University of California Berkley; James F. Finlay, Wells Fargo Bank
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