Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Green Cleaning and The Coronavirus
If your cleaning teams use bleach to disinfect buildings from Coronavirus, will you put your LEED certification at risk? Great question! First: a note about your cleanser - Hydrogen Peroxide kills corona and is more environmentally friendly than bleach. Consider…
First Impressions: Introducing Katie Rothenberg
We are pleased to announce Katie Rothenberg as Paladino’s Managing Director for the DC office. Katie transitioned into a career in sustainability when she joined the U.S. Green Building Council in 2008 and has been an advocate for change in…
Fitwel reveals unexpected strategies to improve occupant wellness
By Kelly Ryan
Wellness is an aspect of building design that has taken the development world by storm. STATS, PROOF. We spend a lot of our time indoors, so wellness investments should combat the issues we are seeing arise within our indoor environments.…
How to solve the problem with LEED – Core Values and the PLUS Framework
The real estate industry needs a common vocabulary for sustainability, and LEED has provided that common language for more than twenty years. If you are an architect, developer, or real estate owner/operator who is frustrated with LEED and its promises,…
Commercial interiors are going green in Seattle and the Eastside
Whether you call it a tenant fitout, tenant improvement, or commercial interiors project, every office renovation provides opportunities to incorporate sustainability, resilience, and wellness. Tenants are demanding (and some local governments are incentivizing) that leased premises be built-out in alignment…
Best summer networking events for real estate in Seattle and Washington, DC!
If you’re like us, you’re always on the hunt for interesting, networking events in Seattle and Washington, DC that bring together business leaders, architects, and developers. We found an abundance of real estate networking events this summer, and we…
Paladino Celebrates LEED ND Gold with FRIT at Pike & Rose
USGBC NCR’s Montgomery County Committee collaborated with Federal Realty Investment Trust to invite the community to the LEED plaque ceremony for the Pike & Rose development in Bethesda, MD on Thursday, May 16th. Federal Realty selected to host the event…
Living Future unConference 2019 Wrap-Up
We were fortunate to have the Living Future unConference in our company backyard this year. More than 1,000 experts in green building gathered in Seattle to learn about sustainable design and communities from each other and from organizations that have…
New e-book: Wellness in the Built Environment
Through our work in sustainability, resilience, and wellness consulting, we see the various players and values that go into every design decision. It’s clear that wellness is top of mind for nearly everyone: commercial real estate owners, designers, developers, and…
Real estate trends for 2019 and beyond
The ways that architects, developers, and operators design projects, attract tenants, manage costs, and measure success are each flexing as cities change and generations make big shifts in living habits. We’ve observed several trends in the commercial real estate industry,…