GBFC Collaborations and Special Projects

• Valuing Sustainability, Chris Corps, CEC, 2007
• Green Building in North America, Opportunities and Challenges, CEC, 2008
  Summary report of the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and its Advisory Board based on 10 contributory consulting reports evaluating sustainable property in Mexico, Canad and the US. All 10 reports and spanish and french versions of this report available at cec.org.
• Green Building Market and Finance in Mexico, CEC, 2007
  Report from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation outlining key issues influencing sustainable real estate in Mexico.
• Green Residential Building in North America, CEC, 2007
  A report from the Commission for Environemtal Cooperation outlining recommendations to promote green residential building.
• Institutional Efforts for Green Building in the US and Canada, CEC, 2007
  Report from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation outlining the wide variety of institutional approaches available to advance green building.
• US Green Building Finance Review, Tobias, CEC, 2007
  Report from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation outlining key issues in the financing and valuation.

GBFC Presentations

• The Role of IEQ in Financially Based Real Estate Investment Decisions
  PowerPoint that Scott Muldavin presnted April 24th, 2008 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2008 Indoor Environment Wrokshp in Berkeley California.
• GBFC Monterey ICSC Presentation - March 2007
  Presentation entitled: "Financing 'Sustainable' Properties," presented by Andy Fusscas at the ICSC Idea Exchange in Monterey on March 22, 2007 (10 pages)
• GBFC GreenBuild Presentation - November 2006
  Presentation entitled: "Documenting Green Building Value, the Appraisal and Underwriting Process," presented by Scott Muldavin and Tim Lowe at GreenBuild 2006 in Denver (38 pages).

GBFC Team Member Publications

• Financial Assessment of Sustainable Properties, REal Estate Publishers, 2008 European Yearbook
  This article by Scott Muldavin provides a framework for thinking through the financial assessment of a sustainable property given the varied types of sustainable investment decisions and combinations of sustainable features on a given property.
• Financing Green Development, Urban Land Green Magazine, Spring 2007
  Article by Scott Muldavin and andy Fusscas discussing some of the key issues to consider in seeking financing for a sustainable project during the early days of private sustainable property development.
• Putting Green in Your Pocket: Expectations and Market Realities 2008
  Article summarizing some of the immediate and longer term actions real estate investors can undertake to "profit" from sustainable property investment.
• GBFC Team Articles in Fall 2007 PREA Quarterly
  Consortium team members wrote four articles for the PREA Quarterly covering valuation, organization strategy, legal issues, and the First Cost Question.
• North American Youth Leadership for a Sustainable Future
  Report of the January 2008 San Francisco Meeting and the sustainability recommendations of youth.
• Green Builds a Head of Steam
  Article written by Leanne Tobias for the March/April 2007 issue of IPE Real Estate
• Tapping into the Green agenda
  Guest column written by Scott Muldavin for the January 9, 2007 issue of IPE Real Estate
• Scott Muldavin "Green Quotient" Interview
  Interview of Scott Muldavin on sustainable finance and valuation featured in the October 2006 issue of Urban Land Magazine, published by the Urban Land Institute.