Past Events
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The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Baruch College, CUNY in collaboration with ASHRAE will present a groundbreaking event that will change the urban future of New York City. Six of the most respected national experts on disaster recovery and remediation will collaborate, through an interactive forum, to develop a strategic action plan that will enable more effective property restoration and potentially save lives within our disaster stricken northeast region as well as similar global areas.
April 12, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Leveraging Public Mandates for Private Gain
International visiting scholar to the Stephen L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Patrick M. Crittenden shares his research into the effectiveness of mandatory energy audits conducted by firms under the Australian Government’s Energy Efficiency Opportunity Act (2006). Patrick also suggests practical steps that real estate owners in NYC firms can take integrate energy efficiency into corporate culture as they prepare to meet the energy auditing requirements of Local Law 87.
March 22, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Bridging the Energy Efficiency Gap
There is significant potential for the real estate community to implement energy efficiency projects that will reduce costs, enhance asset values and improve corporate reputation. Despite these benefits however, the New York City Local Law 84 Benchmarking Report (August 2012) and other research suggest that there is a significant gap between actual and optimal energy use in commercial office buildings. In this talk Patrick M. Crittenden, International Visiting Scholar to The Steven L. Newman Institute, describes how complementary public policies in Australia have helped to drive strategic energy management in the Australian real estate sector. Patrick also considers how the lessons learned in Australia can be applied as New York City's Greener, Greater Buildings Plan is progressively rolled out across the real estate community.
March 20, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Futureproofing Our Cities
This important half-day NREI conference will focus on the economic challenges, opportunities, and pathways to creating urban regions that are more resilient physically, socially, and economically. In a dynamic and multifaceted way, diverse experts will address the key economic problems, discuss potential economic solutions, and the potential pathways that can bridge these problems and solutions. Using the New York metropolitan region as a case study, the goal of this high-level meeting is to focus on the costs and benefits of remaking our urban built and natural environments into areas that can effectively confront a future of a "new normal."
March 14, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Building Information Modeling
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technology that has much to offer to the real estate world. Despite the many advantages, however, spanning not just through the build process for an asset but also through the entire lifespan of the structure, the real estate industry and those industries close to it are slow to adopt change.
February 28, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
On Energy
Discussions at this conference covered a broad range of topics, from the coordination and interplay of Federal, State and New York City government as it relates to energy policy, the current state of energy output versus consumption across the region, what to expect in coming years for methods of expanding New York State’s energy supply to meet with growing demand and how that dovetails with upgrading our transmission of energy across the State.
October 1, 2012 – 7:30am-9:45am
Advanced Energy Performance
This conference addressed next-level energy performance, finance and retrofit strategies for real estate professionals to develop and execute in today’s market environment. Topics focused on increasing asset value, decreasing operational costs, ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing environmental impact and repositioning assets.
June 21, 2011 - 8:30am-5:00pm
Battery Park City
After more than 50 years of planning and development, Battery Park City – a 92-acre mixed-use community sited on landfill in Lower Manhattan – was completed this year. Guided by an innovative master plan that extended the New York City street grid into the neighborhood
May 31, 2011 - 8:00am-4:30pm
SoHo
On the 40th anniversary of the zoning change that created live/work lofts for artists in SoHo we explore this example of planning reacting to, rather than initiating change and ponder the future.
December 1, 2011 - 8:30am-12:00pm
Zoning The City
A one-day conference sponsored by the New York City Department of City Planning, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College
November 15, 2011 - 8:30am-5:30pm
The Waterfront
A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change. This conference will explore the tensions between preservation and change that are now playing out along Brooklyn's waterfront from Greenpoint to Coney Island.
October 26, 2011 - 8:30am-12:30pm
Lower Manhattan Rising
In the ten years since the disaster of 9/11, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center has been an ongoing effort of a number of government agencies, private development participants and civic organizations.
September 8, 2011
6:30PM to 8:00PM
Preparing For The Next Building Boom
The editor-in-chief of the news organization City Hall, Adam Lisberg, will talk with Commissioner Robert LiMandri about the initiatives his department is undertaking to facilitate new construction in the city, toward the goal of stimulating a building boom while maintaining a priority focus on safety.
Wednesday May 25, 2011 - 8:00AM to 9:30AM
Sustainable Urbanization in China
Fast-Tracking a Nation's Growth
The scale and pace of urbanization in China are without precedent.
So are the challenges of managing that growth sustainably.
This inaugural event in our invitation-only
Lunchtime Learning Circle speaker series will offer Professor Li Shirong's insider account of how these challenges are being met.
Friday May 6, 2011 - 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Banking on the Future:
A New Paradigm For Rebuilding Our Nation's Infrastructure
Monday March 14, 2011
8:00AM to 12:30PM
Greening Modernism:
How a Defining 20th-Century Movement
Can Advance Sustainability Goals
and Enrich Our Quality of Life
Thursday February 17, 2011 - 8:30AM to 12:00PM
World Trade Center
Memorial Lower Manhattan: Coordinating Construction, Visitors and Accessibility
Tuesday January 25, 2011 - 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development
Watch video of this eventWednesday, January 19, 2011 - 6:00PM to 8:00PM
NYC Energy Conservation Code
The NYC Energy Conservation Code's new local laws are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and require Covered buildings to benchmark energy and water consumption and perform energy audits. Retro-commission base building systems for buildings that exceed 50,000 gross square feet are also required.
December 17, 2010 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
World Trade Center
In the nine years since the attacks of 9/11, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center has been an ongoing effort of a number of government agencies, private development participants, and civic organizations.
December 9, 2010 - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Real Estate Repositioning
The real estate market of today is dramatically different from that of recent boom years. Lines of credit are tighter. New construction has plummeted. Rents are lower. Vacancy rates are higher. Tenants are more demanding. Sustainability goals are placing new demands on building owners and managers, too. Uncertainties are large.
October 20, 2010 - 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Freight and Our Region’s Future
Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey delivered a major address and took questions from our invited audience of government, civic, business, and labor leaders.
June 23, 2010 - 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Airports
21st-Century Makeovers for the New York Metro Region
Airports underpin our region's economy. To manage dramatic growth, minimize risk, boost efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts, they're undergoing historic change. NextGen is a driver!
June 14, 2010 -8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Reconsidering Gowanus
A report and a forum on an area that holds promise for Brooklyn and the wider city.
Note: This event was held at the
Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn, NY.
May 12, 2010
8:30 am - 11:30 am
Sustainable Transit
Presented By: The University Transportation Research Center In Collaboration With: CUNY Institute for Urban Systems & Metropolitan Transportation Authority This symposium offers a unique opportunity to participate in a multidiscipline debate to develop critical next steps needed to achieve regional sustainability and livability goals.
May 7, 2010
Legally Green
What You Need to Know about Your Property and the Greener, Greater Building Plan
Cosponsored with The Sallan Foundation
~A Sustainability Shoptalk Event~
December 3, 2009
Sustainability 2.0: Envisioning Business & the Urban Environment
Cosponsored with The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity
& Corporate Communications International
~A Sustainability Shoptalk Event~
November 6, 2009
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Liquid Assets:
Capitalizing on the Water & Energy Nexus
Energy use & water use are intimately coupled. Conserving both promotes sustainability, saves money, and eases infrastructure burdens.
~A Sustainability Shoptalk Event~
October 28, 2009
Transformational Infrastructure
Key Decisions on Transportation That Will Shape the NY Metro Region’s Real Estate Future
October 23, 2009
8:30 am — 11:30 am
Kilowatts to Cash
Looking at energy retrofits through green eyeshades
June 5, 2009
8:30 am — 11:30 am
Downtown 2020
How Strategic Investments in Lower Manhattan Can Help Ensure NYC’s Global Competitiveness for the Long Term
April 7, 2009
8:30 am — 11:00 am
Real(i)ty Show! The Green Leasing Toolkit
For Owners, Tenets, Brokers, Attorneys
~ A Sustainability Shoptalk Event~
March 24, 2009
8:30 am — 12:30 pm
Pulling Off a Successful Inside Job
How an Integrated Approach to Creating Sustainable Interiors Can Cut Costs at a Time When Savings Matter More Than Ever
November 13, 2008
8:30 am — 12:30 pm
Downtown 2020 News Release
Strategic Investments in Lower Manhattan Can Help Ensure NYC’s Global Competitiveness for the Long Term
The Pergolis Urban Gallery: A Look Back
Housed in the Institute’s home at 137 East 22nd Street in Manhattan, the Pergolis Urban Gallery showcased programs that explored the real estate, urban planning, and urban design issues that affect all of New York City and the metropolitan region in the 21st century.
A Seminar on Real Estate Prices and Financial Markets
Held in 2007, it featured Yale University economist Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance.
The City Roundtable
It examined real estate issues as they affected public policy in metropolitan New York. Over a period of five years, each of the five boroughs was analyzed and discussed; consideration of the impact of Jersey City followed. Events included “Harlem in Our Eyes,” “Jersey City: New York's Sixth Borough?” “Staten Island: Borough/Suburb/Regional Link.”
Development Conferences
These daylong events examined major issues facing the private and public sector leadership of metropolitan New York's real estate planning communities. The conferences featured major presentations on development options and focused on the financing, business impact, and public-policy consequences development options presented.
Events included Midtown-West: Madison Square Garden's Vision, Greenpoint/Williamsburg, The Hudson Yards Plan, and Midtown-West: Manhattan's Future.
A Real Estate Forum
The forum focused on a major real estate finance issue affecting Metropolitan New York's real estate industry and government communities: Financing Middle-Income Housing in New York.
Industry-Government Seminars
These seminars were smaller, more informal versions of conferences organized by the Institute's New York Real Estate Forum. Designed to facilitate close exchanges between participants and audience, seminars addressed issues that might eventually emerge as important New York real estate concerns. Subjects included The Future of the Manhattan Office Market, Brownfields and the Future of New York Real Estate, Sprawl: The Impact on Metropolitan New York Real Estate, and a Unified Bulk Conference.
The CUNY Urban Consortium
Sponsored by the Institute, the this interdisciplinary group brought together the resources of CUNY schools and departments that focused on urban issues, to exchange information about planning and design issues affecting the future of the city and metropolitan region. Events included Nuts & Bolts: Manufacturing in New York City's Future, Commercial Buildings and Business Districts, Campus and Community, The Future of New York: An International Perspective, Designing for Security, and Between Expedience and Deliberation: Decision-Making for Post-9/11 New York.
