CBRE's Rob Bernard on Unlocking Innovation
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Having helped Microsoft on its sustainability journey, CBRE's Rob Bernard knows how data and sophisticated computing can address big environmental questions.
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. During this episode, Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald and Bernard discuss his first six months as CBRE's chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of Client Sustainability Solutions. According to Bernard, the CRE ecosystem is at the crossroads of simultaneous industrial revolutions: rapid changes in technology and the advent of AI, and the decarbonization of the built environment.
Here's a sample of the topics covered:
A background in buildings, technology and sustainability (1:38)
How is real estate doing? (3:52)
CBRE's goals and benchmarks (6:28)
AI, data and sustainability (8:40)
Leading the way for clients (14:22)
The embodied carbon challenge (18:47)
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