For some years, the commercial real estate industry has largely equated climate change with better control of energy use. Maybe it’s time to look beyond where other carbon emissions and sustainability segments could use more attention.
“I think we’ve focused on operational energy usage, back to where the built environment is, over the last 20 years,” JLL chief sustainability officer and foundation executive director Erin Meezan, told GlobeSt.com. “We’ve gotten more sophisticated in controlling that.”
Where there hasn’t been nearly the same degree of focus is other aspects of core building systems. “There’s not a lot of innovation in things like onsite renewables,” Meezan says.
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