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Urban Land Institute Earns 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has received the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award
Below are brief descriptions with dates and times of the events hosted, supported, or encouraged by the ULI Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance during the 2021 ULI Virtual Spring Meeting. Look here for activities focused on health and wellness, parks and open space, climate mitigation and adaptation, building performance, and resilience.
For more the most detailed and up-to-date information about these events and the rest of the 2021 ULI Spring Meeting events, please visit https://spring.uli.org/.(Events and convenings are subject to slight revision.)
More updates to come.
Monday, May 10, 2021
Equity in Urban Development: Design, Build, and Empower to Promote Social Sustainability
Time: 11:45-12:45pm ET
Location: Virtual
This session will offer an exclusive first-time look at a real-world case study of equity in urban development through the lens of design, building, and empowerment of existing citizens to promote social sustainability. Freedom West Homes, a 47-year-old, 382-unit affordable COOP development on four blocks in downtown San Francisco is being replaced by a highly integrated new development that will both rehouse the existing COOP owners on site and create additional affordable units alongside 2,000 market-rate units.
Monday, May 10, 2021
Prioritizing the Public Realm in the “Next Normal”: Real Estate Strategies during COVID-19 and Beyond
Time: 3:15-4:15pm ET
Location: Virtual
The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide movement for racial justice have elevated the public realm’s role in communities. At the same time, these crises have also laid bare the inequities that low-income communities, Black communities, and other communities of color face, including disparities in access to high-quality public spaces. Hear from industry leaders about how private-sector real estate can continue supporting public spaces during and after this challenging time.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Staying High and Dry: Public/Private Partnerships Tackling Sea-Level Rise
Time: 3:15-4:15pm ET
Location: Virtual
Sea-level rise poses significant threats to global gateway markets from New York City to San Francisco to Washington, D.C., putting countless people and billions of dollars’ worth of property at risk. Hear from business leaders on the East and West Coasts who developed new partnerships to address this pressing climate challenge and consider how more cities could leverage business community leadership to address sea-level rise and other environmental hazards.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
ULI Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance Happy Hour
Time: 4:00-5:30pm ET
Location: Virtual
Join ULI’s Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance (CSEP) for our happy hour during ULI’s Virtual Spring Meeting! We look look forward connecting on sustainability in the built environment and having attendees join us for trivia and drinks. Register for the happy hour here.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
ULI Coastal Forum – Part 1
Time: 4:15-5:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
The Coastal Forum is excited to host the Staying High and Dry Concurrent Session Q&A with speakers. Join this meeting to continue the conversation with panelists and engage with other ULI members working in coastal markets.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Urban Shift: Future-Forward Inclusive Placemaking and Equitable Community and Economic Development
Time: 11:45-12:45pm ET
Location: Virtual
During the global health crisis, the urban landscape changed overnight, as streets have been closed for traffic, and sidewalks and curbside parking space have been transformed into outdoor dining and performance space. Representatives of downtown district associations in four major U.S. cities—Los Angeles, Seattle, Baltimore, and New York—will discuss their rapid response, the current state of affairs in their cities, and their outlook on opportunities for inclusive placemaking and the creation of a more equitable and just workplace and downtown.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Time: 11:45-12:45pm ET
Location: Virtual
Leading real estate developers are already addressing, measuring, and reducing embodied carbon in their new projects. Panelists from Brookfield Properties, the City of Los Angeles, and Hudson Pacific Properties will share simple and cost-effective steps that developers can take to reduce embodied carbon during design and construction, ranging from reusing existing buildings to requesting low-carbon materials in project RFPs, and explain the value that they’re gaining from these endeavors.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Time: 12:00-1:30pm ET
Location: Virtual
ULI Greenprint is excited to host our first ever Owner/ End User Sustainability Forum which will take place on May 13th and 14th at ULI’s Spring Meeting. Discussion topics will include; successes and roadblocks to overcoming issues associated with deeper integration of sustainability; strategies to get owners and end-users on the same page about sustainability, and best practices from both owners and end users.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
ULI Coastal Forum: Follow the Money for Resilience – Part 2
Time: 1:00-3:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
Engage with real estate and land use experts who are “following the money” for resilient development projects– either by attaining capital from investors who prioritize ESG and Resilience goals and have related requirements for financing, or are navigating projects that interlace or partner with multiple funding sources and levels of government to pay for flood and other climate impact mitigation.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Randall Lewis/ ULI Building Healthy Places Forum: What’s New & Next: Exploring Our Changing Built Environment – Part 1 Innovations in Parking
Time: 3:30-5:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
The two-part Randall Lewis/ULI Building Healthy Places Virtual Forum will bring together leaders in health, wellness, and real estate to explore what’s new and next in our changing built environment. Participants will explore the latest in parking reform and delve into the lasting changes to our built environment just one year into the pandemic.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Randall Lewis/ ULI Building Healthy Places Forum: What’s New & Next: Exploring Our Changing Built Environment – Part 2 Innovations in Buildings
Time: 3:30-5:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
The two-part Randall Lewis/ULI Building Healthy Places Virtual Forum will bring together leaders in health, wellness, and real estate to explore what’s new and next in our changing built environment. Participants will explore the latest in parking reform and delve into the lasting changes to our built environment just one year into the pandemic.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Time: 12:00-1:30pm ET
Location: Virtual
ULI Greenprint is excited to host our first ever Owner/ End User Sustainability Forum which will take place on May 13th and 14th at ULI’s Spring Meeting. Discussion topics will include; successes and roadblocks to overcoming issues associated with deeper integration of sustainability; strategies to get owners and end-users on the same page about sustainability, and best practices from both owners and end users.
On-Demand Offerings
5 Technologies Enabling Buildings to Meet Net Zero
Location: On-Demand
Join ULI Greenprint and experts from Siemens, Black Bear Energy, BlocPower, and Entuitive for a fast-paced introduction to five technologies paving the way for buildings to reach net zero emissions: heat pumps, solar panels, battery storage, sensors, and building envelope strategies. Session will be available throughout Spring Meeting and afterward.
Why Real Estate Leaders are Transitioning to All-Electric Buildings
Location: On-Demand
This session will cover emerging regulations and utility framework, technology overview, and strategies and considerations of moving commercial real estate to an all-electric future. Session will be available throughout the duration of Virtual Spring Meeting.
Unlocking Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
Location: On-Demand
Accessory Dwelling Units or ADUs – a broad term for secondary housing built on the property of an existing home – are emerging as a solution for expanding housing options for people of all ages. ADUs can enhance affordability, diversify housing types, generate wealth and income for owners, enable family or caregivers to live nearby, and create incremental or “gentle” density for communities. Creating equitable legal, financial, and communications frameworks can help ensure that ADUs meet their full potential. In this on-demand session, learn how ULI Chicago has helped drive ADU policy reform in the city, and how to unlock the power of ADUs in your community.
What We Measure Matters; Now Let’s Measure What Matters: Using a Well-Being Framework to Promote Equity in Land Use Policy and Built Environment Practices
Location: On-Demand
A well-being framework provides an approach to more holistically and accurately understand individual and community human health and quality of life. Well-being frameworks center equity and objectively and subjectively measure how people perceive the quality of their lives. The frameworks are reflective of community values and encapsulate the multi-faceted aspects of human health—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. As we acknowledge and remedy the damaging impacts of our industry’s past policies and actions (redlining for example), prioritizing well-being provides an approach to address inequities, build urban resiliency, and strengthen social cohesion.
Christina N. Contreras, ULI/Martin Bucksbaum Senior Visiting Fellow and Principal & Founder of Living Ecology Studio, is using a well-being framework to explore how privately-owned and managed ‘third places’ improve human health and well-being outcomes. In this session, Contreras, Carol Graham, and Julie Rusk discuss how well-being frameworks can provide a method for the real estate industry to better understand and deliver on what matters most to individuals and communities.
Resilience, Retrofits, and Affordability: Preparing the New York City Housing Authority’s Buildings for Climate Change
Location: On-Demand
NYCHA’s portfolio, which houses more than 400,000 New Yorkers, experiences significant risks from flooding and extreme heat. ULI’s Urban Resilience program and ULI New York convened a Technical Assistance Panel addressing this very issue at NYCHA’s Marlboro Houses in February 2020 – join Joy Sinderbrand, VP of Recovery and Resilience, and two panelists discussing the ins and outs of retrofitting this older public housing development for resilience and sustainability.