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Sustainable Real Estate and Green Buildings: Strategies for Energy Efficiency, Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Property Development
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ISBN10: 1991368852
ISBN13: 9781991368850
Publisher: Global Climate Solutions
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781991368850
Publisher: Global Climate Solutions
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sustainable real estate is no longer a niche premium - it is the performance standard the entire built environment must meet. Buildings account for 37 percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, yet the sector consistently underdelivers against its technical decarbonization potential. This book explains why and what must change. - Understand the full carbon profile of the built environment, from operational energy use to embodied carbon in construction materials and the whole-life carbon accounting frameworks that measure both
- Analyze green building certification systems - LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, WELL - and evaluate the empirical evidence on performance gaps between certified design and verified operational outcomes
- Discover the passive design principles, mechanical efficiency strategies, smart building technologies, and deep retrofit pathways that define state-of-practice building energy performance
- Examine low-carbon energy systems including heat pumps, building-integrated photovoltaics, district energy networks, and grid-integrated demand flexibility for building electrification
- Evaluate circular construction approaches, low-carbon materials, and life cycle assessment methodologies for reducing embodied carbon across the construction supply chain
- Interpret physical climate risk assessment methods, resilient building design strategies, and the financial materiality of climate risk for real estate investors and asset managers
- Understand green finance instruments - green bonds, PACE financing, ESG integration, and sustainability-linked debt - and their role in directing capital toward net-zero property portfolios
- Analyze building code trajectories, carbon pricing mechanisms, mandatory minimum energy performance standards, and the international policy architectures driving market transformation The built environment's decarbonization gap is not a technology problem - it is a systems alignment problem. This book provides the analytical foundation for closing it.
- Discover the passive design principles, mechanical efficiency strategies, smart building technologies, and deep retrofit pathways that define state-of-practice building energy performance
- Examine low-carbon energy systems including heat pumps, building-integrated photovoltaics, district energy networks, and grid-integrated demand flexibility for building electrification
- Evaluate circular construction approaches, low-carbon materials, and life cycle assessment methodologies for reducing embodied carbon across the construction supply chain
- Interpret physical climate risk assessment methods, resilient building design strategies, and the financial materiality of climate risk for real estate investors and asset managers
- Understand green finance instruments - green bonds, PACE financing, ESG integration, and sustainability-linked debt - and their role in directing capital toward net-zero property portfolios
- Analyze building code trajectories, carbon pricing mechanisms, mandatory minimum energy performance standards, and the international policy architectures driving market transformation The built environment's decarbonization gap is not a technology problem - it is a systems alignment problem. This book provides the analytical foundation for closing it.
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