Retrofitting Office Buildings to be Green and Energy-Efficient. Malachite LLC team members Leanne Tobias and George Vavaroutsos are the principal authors of the Urban Land Institute’s new book, Retrofitting Office Buildings to be Green and Energy-Efficient, described as “the authoritative guide to the retrofitting of office buildings” for the commercial real estate community. The book offers a comprehensive guide to designing, planning, financing, constructing and operating green office retrofits, and includes numerous, detailed international case studies.
Malachite LLC is a leader in green building research and thought leadership. Our work continues to shape the green real estate industry.
Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development. Malachite LLC authored the investment, finance and leasing material for this highly-regarded guide to sustainable office development, available from the Urban Land Institute and on Amazon.com.
Green Building in North America: On behalf of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a Canada-Mexico-U.S. trilateral commission, Malachite LLC served as an expert on the financing of sustainable commercial buildings, multi-family properties and single-family housing, and produced an expert study on the U.S. market. Read the CEC summary report and Malachite LLC’s financing study.
Research Advisory Appointments. Malachite LLC has served as an expert advisor for research conducted by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Green Building Finance Consortium, Building Design + Construction magazine and the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate.