Supporting higher education institutions to navigate shifting sentiments and resource environments while continuing to deliver against energy efficiency, sustainability, and climate commitments
We help colleges and universities navigate shifting stakeholder expectations and evolving resource constraints—while continuing to deliver on their energy efficiency, sustainability, and climate commitments. Through proprietary tools and sector-specific expertise, we support higher education leaders in making informed decisions, enhancing institutional resilience, and achieving meaningful, lasting impact.
In Q2 2025, tariff volatility and regulatory shifts have evolved from a “trade” concern to a core business performance variable. For management teams, the implications reach across finance, operations, and strategy. The companies that outperform are those that treat regulatory shocks as operational scenarios to rehearse, not surprises to react to.
We work closely with Directors of Sustainability and their teams to navigate complex stakeholder environments, deliver on sustainability and climate commitments (including campus decarb), and promote resilience.
We recognize the centrality of facilities and real estate in the achievement of key sustainability and climate initiatives, and we are committed to working collaboratively with heads of facilities and their teams to achieve them.
We understand the value in universities being able to showcase and communicate their sustainability and climate achievements, and we work closely with communications teams to support them in connecting with both internal and external stakeholders.
We help our clients define a shared vision for what they wish to accomplish and the impact they seek to create, all in alignment with the organization’s mission and goals.
We work in partnership with key actors in higher education to craft sustainability and ESG strategies — from decarbonization plans to climate risk mitigation — which are aligned with their needs.
We support universities and colleges to quantify energy efficiency and cost optimization opportunities associated with sustainability and ESG across their campuses.
We work in partnership with our clients to optimize how they deliver on their ESG, sustainability, and climate commitments, ensuring achievement of ambitious targets.
We deploy our digital assets to help clients tackle data challenges and build sustainable, scalable solutions tailored to higher education actors.
We collaborate closely with client working teams to help craft narratives which highlight the climate-positive and value generating outcomes they have achieved.
Partner, Washington DC
With a background spanning both urban planning and real estate development in the United States, Andrew supports sustainability and facilities departments across higher education institutions to develop and execute strategies which enable them to achieve their ambitions while navigating complex stakeholder environments and addressing student and faculty concerns.
Partner, San Francisco
Ben has led sustainability and growth strategy projects for clients across the higher education and real estate ecosystems, including universities and colleges, private real estate companies, PropTech companies, and more. He supports clients on a number of strategic topics such as achieving net zero targets, embedding sustainability and emissions reduction into capital deployment, and capturing sustainable growth opportunities.
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