NAREIM Architecture & Engineering Meeting: Presentations

Sept 21, 2022

During the NAREIM Architecture & Engineering meeting, members discussed a variety of issues including resiliency in the face of rising sea levels and nuisance flooding, mitigating environmental challenges now and in the future, benchmarking embodied carbon, preparing for extreme weather and hazard prep, new resiliency assessments and how to craft better contracts.

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Click below to view presentations from the meeting. The attendee list can be accessed below.

• The Gold Standard for Waterfront Building Resiliency with Joseph Sutkowi, Chief Waterfront Design Officer, Waterfront Alliance

In this presentation, NAREIM members reviewed key components and milestones of the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG) standard and discussed how to make waterfront projects resilient, ecologically-sound, and accessible. Download the presentation here. 

• Environmental Risk Mitigation & Benchmarking with Nathan Brodeur, Partner, Goodwin Procter 

In this session, members discussed legal risk mitigation strategies, covering landowner liability protections; PLL policies; identifying costly liabilities. Download the presentation here. View the case study here.

• Tracking Embodied Carbon: How to use the data as a decision-making tool with Barings Real Estate Advisors; Hines; STO Building Group; Thornton Tomasetti

NAREIM members heard from a developer, an engineer and a general contractor about their experiences when tracking embodied carbon. Download presentation slides here and here.

• Update on ASTM Work Group 62996: Property Resiliency Assessment with Damian Wach, VP, PGIM Real Estate and Willy Accame, Industry Advisor, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Interactive discussion highlighting the latest advances in qualitative and quantitative climate risk modeling, plus ASTM's proposed three-stage process of assessing hazards, vulnerabilities, and resiliency measures, which may hold the key to managing climate-related losses.  Download the presentation here.

• Hazard Preparedness & Post-Event Response with Zach Goldman, COO, TGM Associates amd Neil Horsfield, General Manager – Structures, Beca

Case studies: Members review TGM Associates resiliency strategies for extreme weather. Download the TGM presentation here.

Members discussed different approaches taken across different regions of the U.S. on hazard prep and how seismic and other hazard risk analyses impacted budgeting and capital plans, and how the process of analyzing risk differs by property type.

The attendee list for the Architecture & Engineering meeting can be downloaded here.