If you own a home, Sealed has a heat pump to sell you. The Manhattan-based startup, which helps homeowners replace their oil- and gas-gulping heating systems via an unusual financing model, has secured an additional $29.5 million in a new deal led by property-tech investor
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Brimstone makes Ordinary Portland Cement, chemically and physically identical to conventionally manufactured cement, but without releasing CO2. At scale, Brimstone’s breakthrough will produce cement at or below market prices, solving the problems of both emissions and scarcity of raw materials, and without increasing cost or risk for customers. At scale, Brimstone’s process will be ...
Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE: BXP), the largest publicly traded developer, owner, and manager of Class A office properties in the United States, today announced the release of BXP’s 2021 ESG Report.
The New York-based operations platform used by Brookfield, Sutherland and Mercatus, has formed a global alliance with complementary service providers Airmaster and NEJAVI.
Governments and investors around the world are putting increased pressure on owners of commercial buildings to reduce their emissions. The U.S. federal government has shown it can be done if owners are motivated enough: On Thursday, the agency that operates the government’s 370M SF real estate portfolio said it has cut the emissions of those buildings by half between 2008 and last year.
Some of the biggest names in the real estate world on both sides of the Atlantic are gearing up for a very particular challenge: taking old office buildings that are big emitters of carbon, making them more energy efficient, and turning a profit in doing so.
Trammell Crow announced in late March that it will partner with Altus Power to bring solar panels, battery storage and electric charging stations to 35M SF worth of industrial assets in its pipeline. The move, which is expected to generate 300 megawatts of building-sited solar power over the next three to four years, is in line with Trammell Crow parent company CBRE’s commitment to achieve net-z...
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s new Manhattan headquarters will rely on a hydroelectric power source, making the 1,388-foot skyscraper the tallest and largest New York building to go all electric.
It logically follows that the world’s largest contributor to greenhouse gasses has sensitive ears around the topic of climate change. Try using the words fossil fuels, carbon emissions, or green/sustainability in a conversation with a developer, owner-operator, or construction manager today. The odds are it elicits an emotional response on the other side of the table. Which way the energy pendul...
Six months after Boston enacted a sweeping new law that will require building owners to drastically reduce their carbon emissions levels in the coming years, the commercial real estate industry is still struggling to wrap its head around the regulations.