Sustainability Street: CBRE’s Rob Bernard on Unlocking Innovation
The company's chief sustainability officer on the intersection of technology, creativity, and decarbonization.
Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer, CBRE
Having helped Microsoft on its sustainability journey, CBRE’s Rob Bernard knows how data and sophisticated computing can address big environmental questions.
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. During this episode, Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald and Bernard discuss his first six months as CBRE’s chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of Client Sustainability Solutions.
The CRE ecosystem, according to Bernard, finds itself at the crossroads of simultaneous industrial revolutions: rapid changes in technology with the advent of AI and the decarbonization of the built environment.
Here’s a sample of the topics covered:
A background in buildings, technology and sustainability (1:38)
How is real estate doing? (3:52)
CBRE’s goals and benchmarks (6:28)
AI, data and sustainability (8:40)
Leading the way for clients (14:22)
The embodied carbon challenge (18:47)
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