As the frog once sang, it's not easy being green. In commercial real estate, there are two ways of taking that: reducing carbon footprint to improve ESG standing and also reducing costs at a time of inflation to retain more folding green in the profit column.

That, presumably, is why affordable senior housing company 2Life Communities is extending its use of building management and control software from Embue. The cloud-based platform for multifamily building portfolios provides, according to a spec sheet, "real time building information and control" for multifamily owners and managers. An interesting approach is a list of properties in a portfolio, each with a brief summary and indication whether there is something requiring attention.

2Life has already been using Embue's systems in two of its Boston-area properties, Brown Family House and Coleman House. Now the company "will standardize on Embue for future development, renovation and retrofit projects across its growing senior and senior affordable housing portfolio to make the buildings more energy and operationally efficient, to reduce carbon emissions and to improve resident comfort."