{"id":17549,"date":"2017-12-12T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17549"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:13:35","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-from-dbw-real-estate-needs-focus-on-urban-context-not-technical-green-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17549","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD boost from DBW: Real estate needs focus on urban context not technical &#8216;green construction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Green_Construction_Colin_Lizieri.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17550 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Green_Construction_Colin_Lizieri-300x169.png\" alt=\"Real estate going from villain to hero image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>IHBC members may find useful new professional perspectives on asset management in an article from Designing Buildings Wiki by Professor Colin Lizieri which includes \u2018Five sustainability principles for the real estate industry\u2019 and calls for a focus on \u2018the building in its urban context rather than on the technical elements of &#8216;green construction&#8217;.<\/h3>\n<h6 id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\"><em>image from &#8216;Real estate &#8211; going from villain to hero&#8217;<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Colin Lizieri writes:<\/p>\n<p>The portfolio approach brings another critical benefit \u2013 it focuses on the building in its urban context rather than on the technical elements of &#8216;green construction&#8217;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Efficient management of building operation by exploiting the digital revolution through use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Building_information_model\">building information models<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Asset\">asset<\/a> management and exploiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Smart_building\">smart building<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Owners and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Tenant\">tenants<\/a> cooperating through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Green_lease\">green lease<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Structure\">structures<\/a> to incentivise and optimise building efficiency and resource usage.<\/li>\n<li>Shifting portfolios towards more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Sustainable\">sustainable<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Asset\">asset<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Structure\">structures<\/a>, via repositioning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Retrofit\">retrofitting<\/a> and redevelopment.<\/li>\n<li>Embedding real estate activity within a wider urban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Sustainability\">sustainability<\/a>\u00a0through cooperation with city governments and other urban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Stakeholders\">stakeholders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Such an approach shifts away from the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Green_building\">green building<\/a>&#8216; to a more collaborative, strategic view of urban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Sustainability\">sustainability<\/a>\u00a0and the role of real estate in the urban environment. But why should private firms and investors adopt such an approach? The work of the Council suggests that they should because it is in their business interests to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Real_estate_-_going_from_villain_to_hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DBW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHBC members may find useful new professional perspectives on asset management in an article from Designing Buildings Wiki by Professor Colin Lizieri which includes \u2018Five sustainability principles for the real estate industry\u2019 and calls for a focus on \u2018the building &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17551,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions\/17551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}