Green Real Estate Consultant

As Green buildings and Green real estate practices move into the mainstream, they generate numerous benefits for companies, opportunities to grow the bottom line, and unique challenges.

How should a company prepare its real estate portfolio for the coming energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reduction regulations? What are the most sustainable locations for its workplaces? What Green criteria should it mandate for its real estate portfolio? How can it generate company-wide buy-in to new Green real estate workplaces, strategies, and practices? How can the company take advantage of, and profit from, the market shift to Green real estate?

Charles Lockwood advises corporations, building owners, and developers on a wide variety of Green real estate issues, including the newest trends, challenges, and opportunities.

Charles Lockwood's consulting services range from providing Green real estate educational programs to senior management and individual company department and business units, to assessing the sustainability of a company's real estate portfolio, helping to develop Green locational strategies, advising companies on Green/sustainability standards for their real estate portfolios, providing Green real estate Strategic Planning services, and more.

He has also advised companies on everything from Green marketing issues and strategies to website content and building a company's Green brand.

Charles Lockwood will tailor his Green real estate expertise and services to meet each client's individual needs.

Green Retrofit Consultant

More and more companies believe that their workplaces should be Green, so they can reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, boost their workforce productivity and employee attraction/retention, and project a Green image to their communities and markets.

Real estate owners and investors recognize that conventional (non-green) properties face growing obsolescence and declining value. [See Charles Lockwood's Barron's "Other Voice" Editorial Page column.]

But not every company can immediately carry out a top-to-bottom Green renovation of their existing workplaces, because of budget and/or time constraints or long leases with restrictive conditions. REITs and other real estate owners are also reluctant to close a profitable office building, hotel, or retail center to carry out a top-to-bottom Green renovation.

Fortunately, companies and real estate owners have a third option. They can carry out phased Green Retrofits of their existing occupied buildings.

Green Retrofit is Charles Lockwood's ten-step strategic planning process that enables companies and real estate owners to introduce and maximize Green benefits in their occupied buildings in prompt and cost-effective methods, and with minor impact on the users. This phased process can be adapted to the specific needs of any property whatever its size, age, or location, and whether it is an office building, hotel, or retail center. Most of the Green Retrofit funding can come from existing budgets for regular maintenance and periodic scheduled upgrades.

To learn more about Green Retrofits, contact Charles Lockwood at charleslockwood@verizon.net.

Green Real Estate Workshops and Presentations

Charles Lockwood provides Green real estate workshops and presentations to corporations in every industry. His subjects range from a basic Green 101 educational program to comprehensive Green seminars, sustainable locations presentations, Green Retrofit workshops, new Green building programs, and much more.

Charles Lockwood also speaks on Green building and real estate issues to a variety of conferences, including the Urban Land Institute's Annual Meeting.

For Owners & Investors - Green Real Estate: What You Really Need to Know

For Corporations - Greening Your Workplace: What You Really Need to Know