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Transcend Equity Tackles MOB Green Conversion

DALLAS-The team will put $1.1 million into re-energizing its first biormedical building, a 1950s-era energy hog. The result will equal the removal of 285 vehicles from the road.

By Connie Gore | Updated on July 28, 2008

[IMGCAP(1)]DALLAS-In its typical “open-heart surgery,” Transcend Equity Development Corp. will put its energy-efficiency model to work on its first biomedical building. The 78,000-sf office building in the city’s research and hospital corridor will undergo $1.1 million of energy-saving measures at no upfront cost to the owner.

J. Stephen Gossett Jr., co-founder and vice president of the Dallas-based firm, tells GlobeSt.com that the makeover plan for the seven-story building at 2110 Research Row will result in the reduction of 1,500 metric tons of greenhouse gases or the equivalent of removing about 285 vehicles from the road. He estimates the savings will surpass 50% of existing energy costs. The “greening up” of the building, owned by Moser Realty Group of Dallas, pencils out to be so promising that Transcend Equity has jumped into talks with a national REIT to assess its medical-related commercial properties for similar gains, Gossett says.

[IMGCAP(2)]Older medical-related real estate typically uses “two to three times” more energy than comparably sized traditional office buildings, says Gossett, who estimates the Research Row building’s energy costs are running about $6 per sf to $6.50 per sf annually. The goal is to “future proof it against higher costs of energy,” he says, “by using off-the-shelf technology and putting pieces of what you’d put in a brand-new building into an existing building to make it work properly.”

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