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Karla Zens
Director of Marketing, Stok
- Leads CP Green, the green brokerage program of Capital Pacific, a national commercial real estate firm with sales of $7.13 billion in 49 states across the U.S.
- A leader and frequent speaker for ICSC RetailGreen, the leading retail-focused green real estate conference in the U.S.
- Co-chair of the 2013 ICSC RetailGreen Conference and member of the executive committee of the US Green Building Council's Bay Bridge branch.
- Advisor to Cole Valley Partners, a boutique real estate investment and consulting firm that prioritizes investing in and repositioning assets into green buildings.
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Navigating Green Real Estate for Owners and Investors
Director of Marketing, Stok
Defined Terms
- BREEAM
- BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology) is a rating system encompassing more than 250,000 buildings, most of which are in the UK and an additional 50 countries around the world.
- Brown building
- The opposite of "green" building, brown buildings are seen as lacking in basic efficiency standards, and potentially less valuable and more risky.
- Energy Star
- An international standard for energy efficient products and buildings. As it relates to buildings, the standard derives a normalized rating of 1-100, where 100 is the most efficient.
- Green building
- A broad term used to describe buildings that are designed, constructed and operated in an efficient and environmentally responsible manner.
- Green building initiative
- Any project or strategy that is undertaken in an attempt to make a building more efficient and/or reduce environmental impact.
- Green Globes
- A building rating system based in the U.S. that assesses new and existing buildings, assigning 1,000 possible points across seven main categories.
- High performance buildings
- A term used to describe buildings that are optimized to perform efficiently, using fewer resources and offering occupants a healthier environment.
- LEED
- LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a building rating system that assesses buildings, assigning up to 100 points across multiple categories. Buildings can receive a rating of Certified, Silver, Gold or Platinum.
- PACE financing
- A loan alternative where municipal governments offer a bond to investors that is loaned to building owners for energy retrofits. The long term loans are repaid through an annual assessment on the property tax bill.
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