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Environmental Due Diligence

Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) in California

Posted on by Joe Derhake PE

Performing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) in California is a little different than other states.   The golden state has lived up to its name in the world of real estate as real estate investors have done quite well in the past 50 years.    Arguably one reason for real estate appreciation is that real estate…

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Construction | Environmental Due Diligence

Methane Testing in Los Angeles

Posted on by sharris

The City of Los Angeles requires methane testing before building in a Methane Zone or Methane Buffer Zone.  These methane zones are areas of the city with high methane as a result of naturally occurring petroleum products.  The risk is that methane could migrate into an unprotected structure and create an asphyxiation or explosion hazard….

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Commercial Real Estate Finance

What is a Zoning Report?

Posted on by kmooman

Zoning Reports help you understand a real estate asset’s compliance with municipal zoning law in terms of existing use, height, setbacks, occupancy density, parking, and rebuilding thresholds. A well compiled Zoning Report and a good consultant can help you understand, assess and resolve specific zoning issues or potential problems that may arise.  One problem that…

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Environmental Due Diligence

A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in San Francisco

Posted on by mpheanis

The Phase I Environmental Site Assessment or ESA, known to many as the most essential form of environmental due diligence, can vary in complexity and challenge when conducted in the City known for liberal nature and dynamic history.  San Francisco has historically experienced several great events of great change in regards to its development which…

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Environmental Due Diligence

The Best Laid Plans – or Rather, the Best Laid Lighting…

Posted on by S. Ira Grossman

I had just started as an in-house architect for a Real Estate Investment Advisory firm.  The company had just secured the acquisition of an eighteen story office in the state capital. The building was recently completed and three floors of 12,000 sf each were occupied by a state agency. I was sent to the building…

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Environmental Due Diligence

How to Love an Environmental Professional

Posted on by Joe Derhake PE

Entry by JoeDerhake Entry Maybe my wife should have written this one—or maybe she would have advised young people to not…better to marry a doctor.   More seriously, how do consulting firms love their environmental professionals?   When you run an environmental due diligence firm, you have to be good at it if you want to…

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Energy

Tony Talks Commercial Building Energy Audits

Posted on by Erika Petty

Tony Liou, president of our sister company Partner Energy, recently discussed energy efficiency and energy audits for commercial buildings on GlobeSt.com’s “The Science of Real Estate” blog.  Below is a recap of what he discussed:  An energy audit is often the first step in making your commercial building more efficient.  The goal of an energy…

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