This year’s Sustainability Outlook addresses many of the critical concerns in the market, including creating more resilient buildings in the face of climate change, as well as the quickening pace of action and scope in the race to net zero. It also tackles issues that require more industry collaboration, such as finding consistent ways to understand embodied carbon in materials and knowing how to standardize reporting on ESG progress.

In successful, vibrant and appealing community developments, no matter their size, all the elementsdhousing, transportation, employment, commercial, recreation, education, servicesdmust work well together and enhance each other. A thriving community is a system of interconnected, layered uses where weakness or lack in any element affects all the others.

Acquisition International - Issue 1 2021

Based in California, Schweitzer+Associates is a strategic sustainable real estate solutions firm, designed to help companies and organizations realize their sustainability goals, while optimizing the value of the triple-bottom lines of their communities and portfolios.

Demand for green buildings is rapidly growing as companies seek office space that reduces energy costs and increases worker productivity, and consumers seek energy efficient, healthy indoor environments, both at work and at home.

Packed with examples, and lavishly illustrated throughout, this practical guide provides down to earth, reality-based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsible, attractive to the market, and profitable.

We are seeing much more discussion around social equity. A lot of stakeholders are struggling to come up with metrics that are mutually agreed upon with other industry stakeholders. Social equity encompasses so much—such as education, workforce training, health, and wellness—and measuring those things [as a determinant of real estate value] is a challenge for the industry.”

CLTC is partnering with Liberty to create a zero net energy community in West Sacramento along the Sacramento River. The Liberty Lighting Guide provides design and technical specifications, application of directives, as well as Title 24 code compliance requirements for residential, outdoor, private community clubhouses, K – 8 schools, private clubhouses, neighborhood commercial spaces, parks, greenbelts, trails, sports, and recreation centers.

In our exclusive interview with Judi Schweitzer, President, and Chief Sustainability Advisor of Schweitzer+Associates, Executive Global explores the impact and contribution of an innovative company dedicated to providing economically, ecologically, and socially responsible land use development to serve society’s needs today and in our future.

The world around us. Judi Schweitzer is helping society live green. - By Kristen Schott