关于绿色良好阅读的三个技巧

As arecently-mintedauthor, I now understand that you can never receive enough publicity for your new book. And having experienced first-hand how much work goes into creating and marketing a new volume, I've resolved to do my part to promote other new books on the sustainable real estate front. Here, then, are some recommendations for insightful green reading.

最近越过我办公桌的最好的绿色房地产书籍之一是“超越成本节省的价值：如何重视可持续性财产," newly issued by theGreen Building Finance Consortium(GBFC). (Disclosure: I am a member of GFBC's Advisory Board.) Several years in the making, "Value Beyond Cost Savings" is the product of a massive research effort undertaken by Scott Muldavin, his GBFC team, and a roster of outside collaborators.

The book is a definitive work on how to model the financial outcomes of sustainable building features, offering a framework to guide green building valuation and underwriting. The key strength of this text is its establishment of a framework that links sustainable design processes and bricks and mortar green features to eventual building performance, market performance and, ultimately, financial performance.

The financial performance discussion is framed in the context of discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, the modeling approach typically employed by appraisers, property owners, developers, lenders and investors. What Muldavin and his team have provided is a step-by-step guide that allows commercial real estate and finance professionals to translate green building features into a financial model. The text is bolstered by an impressive set of appendices, which offer detailed source materials, checklists for practitioners, and alternative underwriting and valuation methodologies, including links.

A nice surprise is that "Value Beyond Cost Savings" is not just for number crunchers: The book offers an excellent overview of approaches to developing green buildings and supporting resources, as well as summaries of key research on the green buildings front. You can download Value Beyond Cost Savings from GBFC's website free of charge, either instandard（PDF）或 - 对于那些想要其他细节的人 -expandedform. For those who like to do their reading in hard copy, a print version becomes available this month.

The "绿色办公室指南：将LEED集成到您的租赁过程中," recently published by theU.S. Green Building Council, is another worthwhile addition to your sustainable library. Authored by a team led by Mychele Lord, the Green Office Guide provides overviews of LEED 2009, sustainable leasing practices, and terms that can be incorporated to green the standard tenant lease.

Especially helpful to commercial real estate practitioners are appendices containing tools to guide the office greening process, including the LEED for Commercial Interiors scorecard; a property level environmental impact questionnaire; sample criteria for selecting a variety of green property professionals; sample green building RFP guidelines; a questionnaire for tenants seeking green premises; sample green lease terms; and a sample green purchasing policy for office buildings. Easy to read and to the point, this book offers a useful overview of the steps needed to develop, lease and manage a green office building. Equally important, the book can be used by tenants as well as by property owners and developers.

On the residential front, my favorite new book is "预先范围 +可持续性：建造和定制负担得起的节能房屋。

The book is notable in that it demonstrates that prefab can indeed be greener, while delivering levels of luxury typically associated with conventional, custom-built construction (the photos will leave you drooling). Floorplans and plentiful sidebars will leave you with ideas aplenty for your dream green dwelling. Another notable feature of Prefabulus + Sustainable: Actor and environmental advocateRobert Redford撰写了前言。

Leanne Tobias是创始人和执行校长孔雀石有限责任公司, an advisory firm that specializes in the development, leasing, management, financing and certification of sustainable or green real estate on a global basis.Write to Leanne about your thoughts on trends for 2010 or ways to jumpstart the economy at[电子邮件保护]。她将在以后的帖子中分享最好的想法。

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