ULI Philadelphia Chair Alan Razak served on a recent Advisory Services Panel for Downtown DC Business Improvement District (BID) on the real estate industry’s role in achieving the city’s sustainability goals.

The panel of ULI representatives sought to build on the progress the city has already made in the area of sustainable building and operations practices. With 75 percent of the District’s greenhouse gas emissions resulting from energy use by buildings, the city has focused on building energy management, leading the nation in the number of Energy Star labeled buildings, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certifications per capita, square footage of installed green roofs, and in clean power purchase agreements.