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Registration and Breakfast
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Opening Remarks
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| 8:45 AM |
State of the Sector:
Building Industry Leaders & Pioneers Who Specialize in Retrofitting Share Perspectives
The market for new residential and commercial development and
construction is still struggling to find traction. The one bright spot
appears to be the growing trend for sustainable building retrofits.
These green retrofits continue to have positive money saving
results including lower energy costs, improved productivity, lower
absenteeism and healthcare costs, and strengthening of brand
equity. Additionally, a growing number of real estate investor/
owners are pursuing green strategies to attract and retain tenants
in a competitive market and to best position their buildings for
eventual sale. Our distinguished panel participants will discuss the
reasons behind their choices and decisions to invest in, finance,
market and/or manage sustainable buildings and how these
thought processes impact the retrofits market. They will also
discuss the future outlook for the retrofits market such as:
- Retrofitting as an alternative to development
- Investing and/or managing sustainable building retrofits: Is sooner better and why?
- Upfront costs of retrofitting properties
- Measuring the ROI of different energy and sustainability
strategies
- Do the panelists really believe sustainability gives them a
competitive advantage and, if so, why?
- How does LEED certification or an Energy Star label affect a
buildings cash flow and sale value?
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| 9:45 AM |
Achieving Sustainability Goals for Commercial Buildings Through Retro-Commissioning
This session will discuss the growing demand for LEED EB
Certification and the role that building retro-commissioning can
play in achieving an energy efficient and sustainable building.
The focus will be on how to achieve cost effective energy and
operational savings in commercial buildings through building tuneups
and the steps to complete LEED EB compliant commissioning
of existing buildings. Discussion will also include current utility
incentive programs that help fund the retro-commissioning efforts,
recent case studies and lessons learned.
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| 10:30 AM |
Morning Refreshments & Networking Opportunity |
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Concurrent Sessions: Choose Track “A” or “B” |
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| 10:45 AM |
Track A:
Finding Cost Efficient Solutions Rather than Costly Technologies to Meet Climate & Economic Goals
This session will address how new policies at both a State and
Federal level are being developed to create a foundation for a
sustainable industry to actually emerge. The world of energy efficiency
can be complicated and, at times, contradictory. Results
of costly implementations can fall short of expectations. This
session will outline some of the best and most cost effective options
available for energy efficiency and building “health retrofits.
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Track B:
Substantially Lowering Energy Costs with Sustainable Retrofits
- Best practices for creating energy efficiency with retrofits and
achieving energy efficiency and cutting costs when selecting or
acquiring properties
- Where is the biggest payback in green design?
- The role of government tax incentives in reducing energy costs
through retrofits
- Legislative initiatives which can be tapped into
- H.R. 1778 – Retrofit for Energy and Environment Performance
(REEP) Program
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TRACK A:
Financing Green Retrofits when “Green” is Scarce
In today’s capital constrained economic environment, finding and
implementing financing options that make sustainable retrofits
financially viable is essential. Among other critical financing strategies
this session will address:
- Structuring, financing & return objectives
- Costs & price: Valuation
- What are the potential portfolio pitfalls to avoid?
- Benchmarking
- Lending programs
- Creating the best environmental and economic returns
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TRACK B:
The Role of Government Policies in Green Retrofits
Government can play a substantive role in the sustainable
building retrofit market. Government incentives and policies
are increasing the number of green commercial and residential
buildings (both new and retrofitted.) Additionally, the number of
states with green building policies, standards, legislation and programs
has more than doubled in the last 5 years. This session
will touch on grants and other government programs including
the Recovery through Retrofit Report.
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| 12:00 PM |
Luncheon for Speakers, Sponsors & Delegates |
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Afternoon Concurrent Sessions: Choose Track “A” or “B” |
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TRACK A:
Optimizing Portfolio Return with Investment in Green Retrofits
In today’s real estate investment market, preserving and
protecting value is key. Unfortunately, with such a bleak picture
presenting itself in the real estate investment market it is also
essential to capture whatever value currently exists. In what
ways does sustainable building retrofit investment offer a path
to optimizing portfolio returns? This question and other key
questions will be answered in this session such as:
- Investing in green retrofits of existing portfolios
- Creating value for the long term
- Which options afford the quickest investment returns in
periods under 2-3 years or less?
- Why is sustainable property investment not quite yet mainstream?
- Leveraging value and mitigating risk
- Creating value for the long term
- Which options afford the quickest investment returns in
periods under 2-3 years or less?
- Why is sustainable property investment not quite yet mainstream?
- Leveraging value and mitigating risk
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TRACK B:
Leed Certification Update: Cost/Benefits & ROI
What are the benefits of green buildings to interested parties
such as building owners, occupants, and property and facilities
managers? What are the overall economic and environmental
impacts, not to mention marketability advantage? And what
constitutes LEED in general, the attributes that provide credence
to the ‘plaque’ and why some buildings shouldn’t event start with
LEED ? This session will start with an overview that answers this
question and will follow up with an in-depth discussion of LEED
Certification criteria including:
The major showstoppers that discourage buildings from
undertaking LEED and the counter arguments
The major categories of prerequisites and credits and their
synergistic and financial role with each other
A short summary explanation of the LEED certification process
Economic specifics, cost, benefits and ROI
Summary of changes in LEED-2009
LEED EB-2009…a huge underutilized program
Future changes and where the market is heading |
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TRACK A:
Green Building Valuation: Exactly what is it and how do you Value it?
For the purposes of sustainable building valuation, what are the
financially tangible attributes on which the capital markets can
focus and what exactly is “green” in the real estate industry?
This session will highlight the key standards for property
valuations and will recognize and address basic valuation
approaches.Maximizing efficiency vs. minimizing waste and other best
practices factors
Recognizing and incorporating appropriate industry standards
and structure
What is an environmentally responsible building and how do
you value it?
Investment performance: Benefits vs. risks |
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TRACK B:
Driving Down Operating Costs by Adapting Space and Targeting System Repair & Maintenance Costs
Workplace Strategies: Optimizing and adapting space
Cutting system repair and maintenance costs
Enhancing safety and productivity in work spaces |
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TRACK A:
Baseline Assessments for Green Retrofits
Various examples of both extreme and low end assessments
Defining an overall sustainability strategy
Where to start and how do you do them
Building benchmarking & portfolio level planning |
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TRACK B:
Lowering Operational Costs & Improving Net Operating Income with Intelligent, Integrated Buildings
What are the new technologies and approaches for reducing
energy costs and improving operational efficiencies? This session
will focus on the value of open systems architecture and will
show how it increases flexibility. There is a greater need for
open contracting and fair competitive bidding, for the initial
construction, for ongoing retrofits, and for long term service
contracts. A good game plan will help you get a handle on your
energy, maintenance, and operations costs by designing with an
open systems approach from the start.
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| 3:30 PM |
Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Opportunity |
| 4:00 PM |
TRACK A:
Green Leases: More than Lease Language
The concept of green leases is discussed frequently in the market
these days and the market now has several good resources
to help with possible lease language that helps tenants and
landlords benefit from the financial savings of green building. Yet
green lease language by itself does not fulfill the entire market
need. Successful green projects have always been built around
collaboration among all interested and invested partners, and the
green leasing process should be no different. Selecting, leasing,
and building out tenant space is a complex process and while the
lease terms frame key legal areas of the tenant/landlord relationship,
decisions are made in every step of the process that impact
the project’s success on green goals.
This session will discuss trends in demand for green building and
how to integrate green thinking into every step of the leasing
process, including selecting your team, qualifying buildings, landlord
negotiations and specific green lease clauses.
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TRACK B:
Smart Decisions in Materials Waste, Water Management
There is a large variety a “smart” option for sustainability when it
comes to green buildings. There are also a variety of strategies
that are used when retrofitting the operations of green buildings.
This session lays out some of green materials being used today.
How they impact the environment of the buildings and how they
can be evaluated.
Lighting the way: Retrofitting existing lighting
Available water conservation options
Ways to establish resource efficiency
Evaluating indoor air quality and how it can be enhanced
Recycling
Evaluating sustainable materials selections |
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TRACK A:
Going Beyond Gold: Case Study: Empire State Building
The owner of the Empire State Building assembled a team of real
estate, energy and environmental experts to look at more than
60 potential energy efficiency strategies at the 2.5 million-squarefoot
building. After a thorough analysis, the team settled on eight
projects that offered the optimal balance of reduced energy usage
greenhouse gas emissions on one hand and low implementation
cost on the other. The program, currently being implemented, will
reduce energy usage by up to 38 percent, saving the owner and
tenants $4.4 million in energy costs annually, at an upfront cost of
$20 million. The program manager for the project will provide
details on the innovative process and projects, including:
Setting up a collaborative team and process to ensure timely
execution and measurable success
Using the Department of Energy eQuest and other technology
tools to analyze green strategies
Achieving the optimal result: not the cheapest possible solution, nor
the greenest, but the most practical combination of cost and benefit
Motivating tenants to join in energy-reducing practices, without
setting requirements
Finding the unexpected benefit: how the analysis showed that
refurbishing existing windows would lead to better results than
replacing them or leaving them as is
Replicating the Empire State Building model at other buildings |
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TRACK B:
Creating Cost/Benefit Analysis Scorecard for Green Materials & Technologies
This presentation will offer an effective process to create a cost/
benefit analysis of green materials and technologies frequently
used in building retrofits. Some of the aspects considered
include environmental performance, life cycles, choices of materials
and variations on those materials. The presentation will also
address technologies and materials that might be considered
prohibitive and what indicates are useful in quantifying the financial
cost correlation to product suitability.
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Day One Concludes |
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5:30 PM
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6:30PM |
 Networking Cocktail
Reception
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