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Sustainable real estate solutions

Minimize waste. Maximize energy efficiency.

We help your organization design, launch, and operate solutions—such as waste reduction programs, space efficiency improvements, cost management initiatives, and real estate asset management and maintenance strategies—that support your sustainability goals and objectives so you can deliver meaningful enterprise value.

How can sustainability power more efficient real estate operations?

Sustainability is more than just a goal; it’s about enhancing your business model. Through our real estate consulting services, we help companies develop strategies to embed sustainability within their real estate strategy, portfolio, and facilities operations. Covering the end-to-end real estate lifecycle, we can help you apply sustainability considerations to the:

  • Site selection process
  • Design and construction of facilities to minimize waste and maximize energy efficiency
  • Procurement and maintenance of internal facility assets (e.g., HVAC, lighting, elevators)
  • Launch of governance structures and processes to align real estate with enterprise sustainability goals.

For more information about our broader sustainability offering, please navigate to Sustainability Strategy.

Our real estate sustainability solutions

Sustainable real estate strategy for corporations

We help define your real estate sustainability strategy through workshops and deep analysis of the current state, including brainstorming and prioritizing strategies to reduce consumption, waste, and cost—so you can improve employee experiences.

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Smart building strategy

We help position your company to achieve enhanced energy efficiency, savings, comfort, and automation—fostering innovation and sustainability through an integrated building strategy.

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Technology solutions to drive sustainability

We help you implement and deploy technologies that directly support real estate and enterprise sustainability goals, such as energy consumption optimization and waste reduction—while generating analytics and insights.

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Initiatives we can help address

Assessing current-state building sustainability while identifying and deploying new business processes or technologies that create smarter, more efficient work environments.

Defining a real estate sustainability strategy to manage sites and facilities that meet green building certification requirements while capitalizing on available credits and incentives.

Setting emission targets tied to real estate, while measuring and communicating progress toward achieving those targets to both internal and external audiences.

Measuring achievement of sustainability targets to generate real-time insights and provide line of sight into energy consumption and sustainability impact over time to drive change.

Monitoring the regulatory environment for disclosure and behavior requirements specific to real estate, and partnering with organizations to help them proactively plan how to remain compliant.

Real-world results

Next-gen smart buildings

We helped a multinational financial services corporation define its vision for a smart building management system (BMS) proof of concept and then supported the organization as it issued its RFP and assessed and scored vendors.

Regulatory reporting

We helped a leading FinTech organization design future-state processes to collect data center carbon usage, energy consumption, and utility spend. This work provided the key inputs and governance needed by the organization to publish its annual sustainability report more efficiently.

Sustainability strategy

We helped a leading retailer assess its current-state BMS to surface pain points and potential areas of improvement. We then collaborated with it creating a strategy that would help meaningfully reduce energy consumption while maintaining a high-quality customer experience.

Environmental, Health, & Safety

We helped a global financial institution identify health and safety obligations for its global real estate footprint. This work provided governance to assist with health and safety compliance, preventing high-risk consequences for non-compliance.

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Abby Levine

Abby Levine

Principal | Infrastructure and Real Estate | Deloitte Consulting LLP
+1 310 498 5593
Lara Wigmore

Lara Wigmore

Managing Director | Infrastructure & Real Estate, Deloitte US
+1 312 486 2855

Our thinking

Optimizing Your Footprint To Achieve ESG Outcomes

A deep dive into the most pressing ESG drivers related to the corporate footprint, and an approach to performing an internal and external assessment to produce insights to drive decision making.

Building an integrated approach to real estate sustainability

Steps real estate leaders can take now to help achieve sustainability goals and accelerate the transition to a low-emission future
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The services described herein are illustrative in nature and are intended to demonstrate our experience and capabilities in these areas; however, due to independence restrictions that may apply to audit clients (including affiliates) of Deloitte & Touche LLP, we may be unable to provide certain services based on individual facts and circumstances.