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Wondering how green technology can grow your portfolio's value? Doing
business online with Yardi software solutions -- including the Voyager
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Green Sheet exclusive
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Program
Streamlines LEED Certification for Multiple Properties
By Matt Hudgins
 Certifying a swath of retail stores, a hotel chain or
even a portfolio of existing office or industrial buildings under the
U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) program just got a little easier.
Developers and property owners now have the option of pursuing LEED for
several properties at once through a streamlined process called volume
certification. Applicants work with the U.S. Green Building Council to
establish a prototype that meets LEED standards, so that properties
developed or retrofitted according to that prototype can be certified
more quickly than a one-off project.
Each property must be individually certified for LEED, but that
certification process is carried out largely through the developer’s
own quality control reporting and through spot checks by an inspector
for the U.S. Green Building Council. Project components that will be
used throughout the portfolio or chain — such as water fixtures, paint
or carpet — need only comply with standard criteria established in the
approved prototype or pilot project to help meet LEED requirements.Read
full story here.
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The Real Estate Private Equity Summit 2008 will
gather large institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds,
private equity, investment banks, real estate investors and developers
to address the future of the Real Estate industry. The event will
provide the perfect platform to meet face-to-face and network with the
top qualified real estate executives. For more information, click here .
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Q&A
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Q&A
with Mychele R. Lord, founder, LORD Green Real Estate Strategies
By Sibley Fleming
 Mychele Lord has focused on sustainability throughout
her 22 years in commercial real estate, a career that spans property and
asset management, leasing and development. A licensed Texas real estate
broker, Lord left an executive position with Transwestern a year ago to
form her own company, Lord Green Real Estate Strategies
(www.lordgreenstrategies.com), a consulting firm designed specifically
to meet the sustainability needs of the real estate industry.
Lord’s expertise lay in the greening of existing assets, where she has
done pioneering work with millions of sq. ft. of commercial property in
the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program and the U.S.
Green Building Council’s LEED for existing buildings rating system.
Lord Green’s clients include TIAA-CREF, Invesco Real Estate, New York
City and the U.S. Green Building Council. NREI recently spoke with Lord
about the importance of benchmarking building energy performance and
what future regulation of carbon emissions could mean for the commercial
real estate industry.Read
full story here.
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Introducing the National Real Estate Investor Digital magazine.
Now you can read the full version of NREI with the interactive
capabilities only available online – clickable table of contents,
keyword searches, faster delivery, direct links to websites and it’s
eco-friendly. To test drive a sample digital edition, click here.
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Roundups
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Milwaukee
Research and Development Building Earns LEED Silver
Staff report
 The U.S. Green Building Council has granted a LEED
Silver certification to the Mayfair Woods Business & Technology Center
near Milwaukee under its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
program for core and shell construction.
Milwaukee-based full-service real estate company Irgens Development
Partners LLC developed the 163,350 sq. ft., five-story building in the
Milwaukee County Research Park. The core and shell certification
recognizes a landlord’s efforts to achieve sustainability with the
building elements controlled by the landlord.Read
full story here.
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Spanish
Real Estate Company Leases Roofs for Solar Installation
Staff report
Coperfil Real Estate Group, a Spain-based owner of distribution,
retail and office properties, has created a new company to make
clean-energy investments. Coperfil Real Estate Energy, or CORE Energy,
has already launched its first project to create a rental income stream
by leasing rooftops for solar panel installations by utility providers.
Logistic Park Logispark in Barcelona is being fitted with 17,000 square
meters of silicon solar panels that will provide 400 kilowatts of power
to the local power grid. Other installations in the park are slated for
completion by the end of 2009, and will increase the power produced by
the company’s buildings to three megawatts.Read
full story here.
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