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Marta Schantz

Marta Schantz is the co–executive director of the Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate at ULI, which leads the global real estate industry in creating buildings and places where people and the environment thrive.

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Resilience and Sustainability
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New York City
Tall Buildings + Cold Climates = Sustainability Retrofits
Industry pressures abound to decarbonize existing buildings, and some geographies and asset classes make it more challenging than others. This is particularly the case for tall buildings in cold climates keen on decarbonizing their heating system as part of a larger retrofit plan. What technologies are best for the retrofit? How do owners make the projects pencil out financially? Has anyone done these projects before, or do owners face first-mover risks?
June 24, 2024
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
Tool for Carbon Accounting Offers Consistency and Measurement Across Construction Projects
How do construction projects measure and report carbon emissions? Across the industry, organizations are being tasked with carbon accounting, whether for corporate sustainability goals or for regulatory reporting requirements. Unfortunately, there isn’t a consistent industry-wide method to measure or report it.
May 31, 2024
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
Championing Net Zero Brings ULI a 2024 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence
ULI has earned a 2023 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the fourth consecutive year. The award recognizes ENERGY STAR® partner businesses and organizations in good standing that demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, and commitment to environmental protection through energy efficiency.
April 23, 2024
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Marta Schantz
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Industry Voices
Sustainability Outlook: Top Five Issues Affecting Real Estate in 2023
The real estate industry’s momentum on climate action only continues to grow as the new year begins, as described in the newly released ULI Global Sustainability Outlook 2023report.
January 11, 2023
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Emily Zhang
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Resilience and Sustainability
Addressing the Landlord/Tenant Split Incentive to Drive Building Decarbonization
Tenants directly account for over 50 percent of building energy usage (and thus, a significant portion of building carbon emissions), but owners are often held responsible for whole building energy consumption. How can owners address the tenant’s portion of this? Enter two impactful solutions: green leases and sustainable tenant fitouts.  
March 15, 2022
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
How a Real Estate Portfolio Achieves Net Zero
When ULI Greenprint set a goal of net zero carbon by 2050 for its collective membership, it was clear that to meet that goal, a real estate portfolio would need to employ a combination of technologies and innovations. Two Greenprint members have already met the net-zero-carbon goal—Hudson Pacific Properties, a real estate investment trust (REIT) with office and studio properties, and Kilroy Realty Corporation, a West Coast REIT with office and life science space.
May 24, 2021
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
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News
The Time for a Net-Zero Building Boom Is Now
As part of the first Net Zero Buildings Week this week, ULI, the New Buildings Institute (NBI), and other organizations focused on improving the built environment are calling on partners and members to share their thought leadership on net zero.
March 26, 2021
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Stacey Hobart
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Resilience and Sustainability
ESG in Focus: Looking Ahead at a More Sustainable Industry in 2021
The ULI Sustainability Outlook 2021, a new report from the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance, highlights the commercial real estate industry’s increasingly focused view of environmental, social, and governance strategies in 2021.
January 21, 2021
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
A Tipping Point for Green Bonds? Opening Up Global Capital to Sustainable Investing
The appetite for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing continues to soar, with record inflows amid the pandemic. “Green bonds” in particular have risen in popularity dramatically over the decade, from what ULI considered an emerging trend a few years ago to a mainstream investment opportunity in 2020.
December 11, 2020
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Marta Schantz
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Resilience and Sustainability
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News
ULI Greenprint: Commercial Real Estate Leaders on Track to Reduce Carbon Emissions 50 Percent by 2030
Volume 11 of the Greenprint Performance Report™ measures and tracks the performance of 10,190 properties owned by Greenprint members. It finds that over the past year, carbon emissions have dropped by more than 3 percent, energy consumption by almost 3 percent, and water consumption by more than 3 percent. In 2019, Greenprint members invested over US$50.1 million on sustainability projects ranging from tenant engagement to building envelope upgrades and recommissioning, totaling more than 6,000 individual projects.
September 30, 2020
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Marta Schantz
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