Ackerstein Sustainability provides sustainability consulting to owners and operators of large buildings and institutional properties. We specialize in the greening of facility operations and helping buildings achieve certification under the LEED for Existing Buildings Rating System (also known as LEED-EB).
We work to help property managers, facility engineers, and ownership to understand the challenges and opportunities presented by integrating 'sustainability' into their operational priorities. Until recently, successful facility management and operation has been defined by a careful balancing of maximizing occupant comfort with cost management. Increasingly today, that equation must be expanded to include an understanding of a building's ongoing impacts on the natural environment. Sustainability has emerged as the third critical concern for successful facility management and building operations.
Helping our clients to achieve a more complete understanding of operating impacts, and to begin manage those impacts in a way that minimizes unnecessary harm to the environment is our core mission. At Ackerstein Sustainability, we work in close collaboration with our clients to:
- Structure an informed, rigorous approach to sustainable operations
- Identify critical ecological, economic and strategic goals and constraints that will guide decision-making around sustainability
- Apply tested, best-practice metrics to measure impacts and assess possibilities for change
- Explore new approaches, products, and services to achieve meaningful change and to optimize both ecological benefits and cost-effectiveness
- Verify and communicate sustainability achievements via LEED-EB
Ultimately, our job is simple - We help our clients add 'sustainability' to the list of core considerations and priorities that drive their decision-making each day, help them understand the costs and benefits of their decisions from both an economic and ecological standpoint, and help them find ways to achieve meaningful ecological benefits with minimal economic costs.