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Next - Green Building Development and Retrofit

Malachite LLC is a leader in green building research and thought leadership. Our work continues to shape the green real estate industry.

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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.

Lafayette

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.

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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.

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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.