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Stay on the leading edge of the residential market! Why Green Buildings Matter explains the benefits of green buildings to you and your clients' bottom line. Understand the business case for high performance buildings:
- Why buildlings labeled as green or energy efficient have higher rents and sales prices.
- Why tenants prefer to rent in green or energy efficient buildings.
- How to market your building as a high performance building.
- How you can help your clients work with their landlord or tenants to capture the benefits of greener, more efficient buildings.
- How local laws impact the value of NYC buildings
Thank you to our partner

Adam SleddDirector of Commercial Real Estate Engagement, Institute for Market Transformation
Adam Sledd leads IMT's efforts engaging the commercial real estate industry in energy efficiency strategies. Sledd helps individual companies, trade associations, and government agencies save energy and money by incorporating sustainability into the landlord-tenant relationship.
Stay on the leading edge of the commercial market! Why Green Buildings Matter explains the benefits of green buildings to you and your clients' bottom line. Understand the business case for high performance buildings, and find out:
- Why buildlings labeled as green or energy efficient have higher rents and sales prices.
- Why tenants prefer to rent in green or energy efficient buildings.
- How to market your building as a high performance building.
- How you can help your clients work with their landlord or tenants to capture the benefits of greener, more efficient buildlings.
- How local laws impact the value of NYC buildings
Thank you to our partner

Adam SleddDirector of Commercial Real Estate Engagement, Institute for Market Transformation
Adam Sledd leads IMT's efforts engaging the commercial real estate industry in energy efficiency strategies. Sledd helps individual companies, trade associations, and government agencies save energy and money by incorporating sustainability into the landlord-tenant relationship.
The cities around us create a wealth of data every day. The question is how to visualize, interpret and respond to this data to build a better city. In this session, we will explore the intersection of design and technology as it relates to urban planning and look at the way data collection, sensors and systems in smart cities are implemented. We will discuss the opportunities for sustainability that these strategies present and what city regulations and infrastructure are needed to optimally utilize this information and implement them.
Cities around the world have begun to utilize data and systems to improve everything from traffic congestion to pneumatic waste collection. These types of data analytics present opportunities to help improve energy efficiency, safety, CO2 emissions, and waste within a city and more. New York City has already begun to collect building performance data under Local Law 84 and is now starting to roll-out systems like LinkNYC which provide free Wi-Fi and digital tools around the city, while project’s like Hudson Yards are creating the first “quantified community” in the United States. The generation of and collection of this information has the potential to impact both the physical environment as well as the way we interface with our city.
This is the first of a series of multidisciplinary sessions hosted by Urban Green to address critical issues facing New York City. The goal for each session is to bring together the most pertinent group of designers, academic thinkers, and policymakers for a conversation that is mutually beneficial and that will help to advance the level of thinking on these complex issues.
SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 am Program
Miguel A. Gamiño Jr.Chief Technology Officer, City of New York
Constantine E. KontokostaDeputy Director for Academics, NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress
Jeff MerrittDirector of Innovation, City of New York
Richard PlunzDirector, Urban Design Lab, Columbia University
Luis RodriguezDirector, Product Management, Internet of Things, IBM