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We've helped hundreds of industrial buildings cut emissions. Our 2024 guide is packed with sustainability strategies (and a checklist) for developers to drive impact. View/Download → https://bit.ly/DIB-direct

Headed to Greenbuild International Conference & Expo this year? Ryan McEvoy will be speaking Nov 14 — Measuring Impact: Buildings, People, Planet. Event info: https://lnkd.in/gtYWtMD7

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAIA! 🎂 Today we celebrate 19 years since Ryan McEvoy founded GAIA, a milestone that also marks an achievement of creating 100 million square feet of high-performance buildings. 🏗️🌎 Over the years, we’ve been honored to work on well-known projects including Amazon, Google, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, UCLA, Westfield, Prologis, Porsche AG, Whole Foods Market, and W Hotels... but our journey isn't just about scale, it's about the impact. Some of our most cherished projects include the Ancient #Bristlecone Visitor Center (home to the world's oldest living trees), the Downtown Women's Center (LA non-profit supporting women experiencing homelessness with housing, health, and job training), and the Houston Zoo (which protects over 8,000 animals and manages 33 wildlife conservation projects across 17 countries). 💙 To each of our clients, big and small, thank you for trusting us to bring your vision to life with sustainability initiatives.

Jon Pharris (Cofounder of CapRock Partners) emphasizes the importance of resilience and community impact in business. At GAIA, we’re proud to play a role in CapRock’s journey as their Sustainability Consultant, managing their LEED Volume program and integrating environmental and social initiatives. Together, we ensured that sustainability remains central to their continued success. CapRock x GAIA LEED Volume Case Study: https://lnkd.in/gS-TWqv4

Climate risk affects all of us. GAIA put out a Climate Risk & Resilience 101 piece to help our clients understand the challenges and learn how to adapt ↳ https://lnkd.in/gKH9EVdr

We're excited to announce that Ryan McEvoy (Principal & Founder at GAIA) has been invited to speak at the 2024 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Philadelphia, PA. Ryan will present on a session titled “Measuring Impact: Buildings, People, Planet” along with: • Mili Majumdar of USGBC California • Alessandro Bisagni, LEED Fellow, WELL Faculty, CEnv of BEE Incorporations and • Amina Helstern of Perkins&Will When: Thursday, November 14 at 10:30 a.m Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia https://lnkd.in/gtYWtMD7

This photo has me thinking a lot about how we assess physical climate risk in the real estate industry. The commercial real estate - Walgreens, Lowes, and more -- is standing, superficially intact. The community around it is devastated. I worry that prevailing approaches to risk assessment will take an address, in this case, 91 S Tunnel Rd, Asheville, NC, and return a set of site-specific hazards. It seems unlikely that approaches focused on individual addresses will capture the real impacts at the community-scale. The result is a critical underestimation of risks to life, property, and livelihoods. This underscores the importance of emerging approaches that simultaineously assess asset and community (a.k.a., market) risks. For example, the Urban Land Institute and Heitman "Climate Risk and Real Estate" series. We need much more of that, fast. The photo is credited to Marco Bello, Reuters

GAIA, Prologis, and RGA, Office of Architectural Design proudly accepted a Sustainable Innovation Award in the Energy/Operational Carbon category for this project at USGBC California's 2023 Green Gal Awards. The Home Depot Distribution Center is an industrial smart warehouse that achieved many sustainability outcomes including 90% of its energy sourced from renewables (solar) and 75% water savings.

GAIA is proud to be the sustainability consultant for Valley View which achieved LEED Silver certification! Architect: Herdman Architecture + Design, Inc. Owner/Developer: Cabot Properties General Contractor: Fullmer Construction Using the LEED rating system, the industrial project will save 69% in potable water consumption (28% for indoor water use and 73% for outdoor water use); 31% in energy, and utilizes products with EPDs (environmental product declarations) and material ingredient reporting.

👏 The U.S. gets a new national #marinesanctuary, the first led by #indigenous people (the Northern Chumash Tribe), to protect 4,500 square miles of ocean. "National marine sanctuaries are similar to a national forest on land. The new sanctuary will be protected from oil and gas drilling, as well as undersea mining, while fishing is still permitted. It also means more public outreach and monitoring for environmental impacts, something NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration says is vital to understanding how the ecosystem is being affected by climate change." via NPR https://lnkd.in/eZ5Q66Vv