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JLL's Chris Brandt

'We have seen green industrial buildings being offered at competitive rates.'

By John McCloud | Updated on November 24, 2008

Chris Brandt, an associate in the Los Angeles office of Jones Lang LaSalle, recently produced a podcast on sustainability in industrial buildings. After listening to the 90-second recording, GlobeSt.com asked him to go into greater depth on the feasibility of building industrial product to LEED standards. In the first part of the interview, he deals with the general development issues. In part two, to follow, he talks about the likely impact of the current economic crisis on sustainable development.

GlobeSt.com: In your podcast, you mention there’s been a major shift among developers and tenants toward green building. How big a shift do you think this is?

Brandt: Almost all the country’s largest industrial developers have begun integrating green building elements into their new developments, but this is a fairly new shift. In 2002, there were only four new industrial buildings in the US that registered for LEED certification. In 2007, this number had grown to 111. I’d expect this number to be even higher in 2008.

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