By Lauren Luckett

In 2017, Washington, DC became the first LEED Platinum city in the world. Next, DC may be the first Net Zero City in the world, thanks to the passing of the Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act of 2018. The Clean…

By Paladino and Company

Developers are seeing increasing pressure from regulators to pursue net zero energy and carbon in their new construction. There are also incentives for operators of existing buildings to pursue a net zero energy goal. A third-party certification serves as a…

By Deborah Hanamura

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,…

By Divya Natarajan

In September 2018, Mayor Bowser announced that the City of DC is targeting new and ambitious energy goals as part of Sustainable DC 2.0 during the Global Climate Action Summit 2018. Sustainable DC 2.0 is a five-year update to the…

By Tom Paladino

As renewable energy technologies get better and cheaper, the concept of achieving net zero energy – and lasting value – is getting noticed by building owners and developers. Our clients want to know how a building can produce its own…

By Dina Belon

Let’s get one thing out of the way: you can spend more on sustainability. That is a truism. But what if I told you that sustainability measures can be achieved without spending a dime? If your obstacle to sustainability is…

By Tom Paladino

Returning Joy to Sustainable Building The late great Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” I believe where we are today in green building is not where we thought we…

By Andrew Lee

What does it mean to be a zero energy building? That question is now being asked by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which recently sent out a request for public comment on their official definition of zero energy buildings…