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Cascadia Green Building Value Initiative
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The Green Building Value Initiative is a program that seeks to engage the real estate appraisal, lending and investment community and explore ways to effectively and accurately communicate the value of high performance green buildings within Cascadia (OR, WA, and BC). The participating partners in this initiative are Cascadia Region Green Building Council, Earth Advantage, NW Ecobuilding Guild, WA Department of Ecology, Built Green, Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre and Evergreen Community Development. Cascadia Released a ground breaking study investigating the value of High Performance Green Building in June of 2009.
Learn more and download the study here.
For questions or comments about the study contact Brandon Smith by email or call 503-228-5533 ext. 6#. This site will serve as a place to find the status of this research as well as other resources regarding the engagement of the real estate finance and investment community in high performance green building. |
Articles
-by Timothy R Lowe and Theddi Wright Chappell, from "PREA Quarterly," Summer 2007
- The Value of Green
-by Theddi Wright Chappell, Originally printed in Globe Street Retail, June 6, 2006. - The Sustainability Matrix
- -by Sustainability Resources and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, October 2002.
- Does Green Pay Off?
- by Norm Miller, Jay Spivey, and Andy Florance, November 19, 2007.
- Capital Markets Lag Behind Green Buildings
-by Dan Winter, Sustainable Industries, April 29, 2007. - As Green as the Grass Outside
-by Charles Lockwood, Barron's, December 25, 2006. - CoStar Study Finds Energy Star, LEED Bldgs. Outperform Peers
-by Andrew C. Burr, CoStar Group, March 26, 2008. - CoStar Green Study Slideshow
-A pdf slideshow presenting the findings of the CoStar Green Study. - Green Building
-by Walcia Konrad, Fast Company Magazine
Reports
- PRI Green Bulletin, July 2007
- The NEW Industrial Revolution- The Value of Green
-by Theddi Wright Chappell
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The Cost of Green Revisited
-by Lisa Fay Matthiessen/ Peter Morris - Vancouver Valuation Accord
-Vancouver Valuation Accord, March 2, 2007 - Vancouver Valuation Accord - Forum Summary & Work Plan
-Vancouver Valuation Accord - The Energy Challenge: A New Agenda for Corporate Real Estate
-by Rocky Mountain Institute and CoreNet Global, April 2007. - NAIOP Green Building Finance Consortium
-Evolution Partners Speaker Event - Special Considerations in the Valuation of Sustainable Properties
-by Timothy R. Lowe and Theddi Wright Chappell, Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), Summer 2007. - Canada can get rich by going green
-CBS News Transcript, January 16, 2007. - GBFC's Quantifying Green Value: Assessing the Applicability of the CoStar Studies
-Green Building Finance Consortium
Whitepapers
Funds
RESOURCES
GreenBuilding Finance Consortium Glossary of Words and Phrases
A dynamic, working list compiled by the Consortium. It is continually being updated with new words and phrases relevant to the interdisciplinary field of green building finance.
The Green Building Finance Consortium (GBFC) is a group of leading corporations, real estate companies, and trade groups who have joined together to address the need for independent research and analysis of investment in Green or energy efficient buildings.
Vancouver Valuation Accord
The Vancouver Valuation Accord is a response to the evolving importance of sustainability and the need for its implications to be understood in valuations and appraisals. It is a commitment to review sustainability and valuation, including education, standards and practices, with the aim of improving understanding of their relationship.
