Real Estate & Built Environment

Real Estate & the Built Environment

Helping key actors across the real estate sector & the built environment to craft and deliver sustainable strategies for future growth, enhance capital productivity, and increase resilience in a rapidly changing climate

We help key players across the real estate sector — from investors and construction to manufacturers and service providers — accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth and deliver transformational impact through sustainable strategies, enhanced decision making, and delivery of a shared vision. We do this by making available to our clients proprietary tools and solutions as well as our deep expertise in supporting clients from across the built environment to deliver lasting impact.

Featured insight

Real Estate Brief: Water – The overlooked business imperative in real estate

Water is rapidly emerging as a defining business case in U.S. real estate, yet it remains largely under-considered in most investment and operational strategies. Scarcity, flooding, infrastructure failures, rising water costs, and regulatory tightening are already impacting asset values, insurance costs, and development feasibility. With half the global population projected to live in water-stressed regions by 2030 and U.S. cities already integrating water stewardship for future developments, proactive water management is becoming a crucial competitive differentiator and financial imperative for real estate leaders.

Investors (REITs, CRE, Asset Managers)

We work closely with real estate investors and operators to seize opportunities and reduce risks arising from shifts in the built environment, from defining financially achievable Net Zero roadmaps to integrating physical climate and transition risk into enterprise management.

Construction & Developers

We serve construction services firms and developers to create sustainable and resilient spaces that deliver unrivaled experiences for tenants & users. We work with our construction and developer clients to respond to customer requests and unlock sustainable growth opportunities.

Building Materials Manufacturing, Distribution & Retail

We support key upstream players in the real estate lifecycle — from building materials manufacturers to distributors and retailers — helping them develop and deliver high-quality products which respond to customer preferences and are sustainably and resiliently made.

Non-profits & Thought Leaders

We work with mission-driven organizations at the intersection of real estate and climate to enhance impact delivery by optimizing their strategies, expanding the scope of impact, and enhancing delivery models. We create collaborative opportunities between our non-profit and for-profit clients through our multi-sectoral networks.

Architecture Firms & Design Services

We support architectural and design services firms to distinguish themselves as sustainable and climate-forward leaders, leveraging their position at the ideation and design stages of the real estate lifecycle to conceive and create cutting edge sustainable and resilient spaces.

Solutions Providers

We work with a range of real estate service providers and technology disruptors to enable them to reshape their industry through the delivery of new sustainable business models and resilient solutions that bridge the needs between the future and those of traditional value chains.

How we support our clients

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 the built environment to craft sustainability and ESG strategies — from Net Zero to climate risk mitigation — which are aligned with their needs.

We support real estate players and firms with large physical footprints to quantify and capture revenue generation and cost optimization opportunities associated with sustainability and ESG in the built environment.

We help our clients identify and plan for climate-positive investments, including navigating the world of climate finance flows and sustainability tax credits.

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 built environment actors.

We support our built environment clients to enhance their reporting & disclosures, remaining compliant with requirements and in line with peers.

We collaborate closely with client working teams to help craft narratives which highlight the climate-positive and value generating outcomes they have achieved.

Our People

Andrew Alesbury

Partner, Washington DC

With a background spanning both urban planning and private real estate development in the United States and Middle East, Andrew supports real estate investors and other firms with large portfolios of physical assets to create sustainable strategies which integrate resilience and sustainable risk management into their business models and investment processes.

Ben Vatterott

Partner, San Francisco

Ben has led sustainability and growth strategy projects for clients across the real estate ecosystem, including investment firms, construction materials manufacturers, PropTech companies, and more. He supports clients on a number of strategic topics such as setting net zero targets, embedding sustainability and emissions reduction into capital deployment, and capturing sustainable growth opportunities.

Featured tools & solutions

Parallax

Parallax helps built environment players right-size clean energy investments and conserve financial resources in delivering on emissions reduction targets. Designed to help your organization understand what internal investments are required vs. what benefits will be realized from the external greening of the grid and where on-site renewables are viable, Parallax leverages proprietary analytics to understand how your organization can achieve commitments cost effectively.

Faros

Faros combines property-level physical climate risk data and proprietary analytics to help REITs and organizations with large physical footprints to rapidly assess the risks facing their portfolios, size value at risk, and prioritize where to act.