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CRE Tech Companies to Watch 
Urban Land Magazine, October 23, 2013, with Dylan P Simon 

Five Real Estate Tech Firms to Watch 
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Lay of the Land, October 17, 2013, with Dylan P Simon 

REPORT ADVISORY

2009 Climate Change, Land Use & Energy Annual Report, Urban Land Institute
Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy (CLUE) 2009
Investment Niche or Necessity? This report concentrates on the real estate investment community’s outlook, preferences, and business practices associated with climate change, land use, and energy. This publication has been researched through a ULI member survey, a dedicated ULI conference, and a review of the existing literature.

2010 Climate Change, Land Use & Energy Annual Report, Urban Land Institute
Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy 2010: New Tools. New Rules.
This report explores an issue that has risen to become one of the most immediate challenges for sustainable development: investing in energy efficiency improvements in existing real estate. New regulations and finance tools are emerging which seek to capture value associated with energy efficiency in commercial buildings. This report includes stories from the “retrofitting” trenches, prevailing attitudes, and case studies that provide a benchmark for how energy efficiency is valued in real estate transactions today. Emerging energy and climate change policies are identified at all levels of government which taken together are forming a new backdrop for real estate investment. Read the press release.


EDITORIAL REVIEW

The Carbon Efficient City, AP Hurd, Al Hurd
There has been much written on the vision for carbon efficient cities, neighborhoods, new buildings, upgraded buildings, bicycle networks and transit systems (to name a few), but remarkably little about how we can change our frameworks so that all of these approaches can thrive and have a meaningful impact. The Carbon Efficient Cityfocuses on how we get there. It is very deliberately not just about one of the things we need to do. It's about creating an economic and regulatory environment in which the DNA of sustainable buildings and cities can be successfully expressed. It's about all the signposts we need to re-align, and about changing the path of least resistance to what we really need it to be. It is a thorough revisiting of how our institutions are leading us astray and it is suggests a set of tools to help us fix them.


PEER REVIEW

Retrofitting Office Buildings to be Green and Energy Efficient, Urban Land Institute, Leanne Tobias, George Vavaroutsos et. al
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to green office retrofits around the globe that includes case studies of retrofits from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia and includes guidance from 50 leading green building experts. The book is available from the Urban Land Institute and on Amazon.com.
Case Studies include:
  • Adobe Headquarters, San Jose, California
  • The Christman Building, Lansing, Michigan
  • Deutsche Bank Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Empire State Building, New York, New York
  • Joseph Vance Building, Seattle, Washington
  • MacDonald’s Office Campus, Oakbrook, Illinois
  • 545 Madison Avenue, New York, New York
  • 1801 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Canada
  • One Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Shui On Land Headquarters, Shanghai, China
  • Trevor Pearcey House, Canberra, Australia
  • Zero Energy Building, Singapore