Stakeholder Consortium
The Building Performance Stakeholder Consortium is unique in the city's building industry. Stakeholders -- a cross-section of commercial real estate and property management professionals -- meet two times a year to discuss the benefits and challenges of "going green." By the consensus views reached by its members, the Consortium directly informs the Lab's research and educational agendas.
The Consortium is co-chaired by Nancy Anderson, executive director of the Sallan Foundation, and Barry Hersh, a professor of real estate at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Stakeholders include leading property owners and managers, labor representatives, utilities, city and state agencies, and other non-profits. If you would like to learn more about the Consortium or join the group, please contact Nora Sherman.
Finance Working Group
Financing energy efficient retrofits is a challenge that many members of the NYC Building Performance Stakeholder Consortium have been grappling with for years, long before the economic downturn stalled real estate investment. This spring, the Lab formed a Working Group, drawn from members of the Stakeholder Consortium, to look into American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds directed toward retrofit projects in commercial spaces. Not finding many, the Group’s scope expanded to existing and emerging funding mechanisms, including those funded publicly, through tax incentives and utility-based incentive programs, and private models...
Read on for more information and to download a draft of the report, “The Evolving Picture of Energy Efficiency Financing for New York City Commercial Buildings.”
Download summaries of the Consortium meetings (pdf):