Purpose – This study seeks to provide a review of the background and context to the engagement of RICS members with the sustainability agenda, and to examine the extent to which the surveying profession uses relevant information, tools and techniques to achieve the key objectives of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of business and marketing strategies pursued by responsible property developers, funds and investors in the USA and to draw conclusions for future activities in that sector from a transatlantic perspective. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out to explore the similarities and differences between jargon used to describe future‐focussed commercial building product. This is not so much an exercise in semantics as an attempt to demonstrate that responses to challenges facing the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the availability of information in the USA for measuring the social and environmental performance of real estate portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – A search is conducted for relevant indicator data sources using internet, library and...