Sustainability Street: How Trammell Crow Is Cutting Carbon

James Murray-Coleman

With a $30 billion development pipeline, the Trammell Crow Co. is in a position to innovate on sustainable construction, building electrification, and energy efficiency—both here and abroad. James Murray-Coleman has been tackling that challenge head-on since becoming Director of Sustainability 10 months ago.

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, CPE Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald interviewed Murray-Coleman about the company’s strategies for lowering embodied carbon and operational carbon.

Here’s a sample the topics covered:

• Next-level green buildings (1:35)
• Counting carbon in construction  (4:21)
• Mass timber construction (5:48)
• Trammell Crow and solar (7:20)
• Building electrification (9:52)
• Europe-U.S. idea exchange (12:52)
• The role of certifications (15:49)
• Energy-star equipment (17:45)