What you will learn:
Sustainability and Real Estate Management: Owner’s goals and expectations, tenant and resident demand, government regulations and incentives, certifications and standards.
Sustainable Property Operations: Management plans, maintenance, green cleaning, tenant and resident relations and education, tenant improvements and renovations, transportation.
Increasing Energy and Water Efficiency: The manager’s role in resource efficiency, benchmarking, resource use and supply, operations and maintenance, equipment and technology, measuring results.
Improving Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ): IEQ factors, proactive indoor air quality testing, tenant and resident surveys, sustainable materials, operations and maintenance.
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Waste audits, recycling programs and markets, composting, tenant and resident education, financial and environmental benefits.
The Sustainable Real Estate Management Company: The sustainable office environment, vendors, certifications and accreditations, networking and marketing.
Additional Topics:
The LEED Process Energy Audits PACE Financing
AB 1103 – Required ENERGYSTAR disclosure
California Energy Deregulation Green Leasing
San Francisco Commercial Building Ordinance
Steve Ring is uniquely qualified to address the subject of sustainability. As Director of Client Solutions at Cushman & Wakefield in downtown San Francisco, he is currently overseeing the LEED certification of over 6,000,000 square feet in the San Francisco region. He helped obtain LEED-EB Gold certification for the Transamerica Pyramid, and 525 Market Street, San Francisco, currently the largest LEED-EB Gold high-rise office building on the West Coast.
During the past 25 years, he has managed various types of real estate from small multi-family communities to large office buildings and regional retail centers. Currently, his focus is on the management of large office buildings. He is Co-chair of the National Cushman & Wakefield Energy & Sustainability Task Force and the Mayor’s Task Force on Existing Commercial Building Efficiencies.
Cost:
$149 Includes Lunch & Practical Guide to Green Real Estate Management
For more information and to register, click here.

As a real estate manager, you need a broad range of skills to manage your property operations successfully from both a short- and long-term perspective. Property Operations I, the first of a two-part series, addresses essential human resources and marketing and leasing concepts that will help your properties thrive in today’s competitive real estate market.

Property Operations I Courses:
“Marketing and Leasing: Multifamily Properties” (MKL405)
“Human Resource Essentials for Real Estate Managers” (HRS402)

Classroom format: 4 days, 8 am-5 pm. MKL405 March 19-20 HRS402 March 21-22
Track Tuition: $1,140 premier member rate; $1,320 classic member rate; $1,430 non-member rate
Course Tuition: $570 premier member rate; $660 classic member rate; $715 non-member rate

To register on-line, go to www.irem.org
For more information and to register by fax or mail, http://iremsf.org/files/2010/08/Prop-Op-Track-1-2012-Flyer1.pdf