{"id":1004674969,"date":"2023-08-07T06:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004674969"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:50:22","slug":"cbres-rob-bernard-on-unlocking-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cbres-rob-bernard-on-unlocking-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Street: CBRE&#8217;s Rob Bernard on Unlocking Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/cpexecutive\/embed\/episodes\/CBREs-Rob-Bernard-on-Unlocking-Innovation-e27r2he\/a-aa78qvf\" height=\"200px\" width=\"800px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" ><\/iframe>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004674971\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004674971\" data-attachment-id=\"1004674971\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cbres-rob-bernard-on-unlocking-innovation\/robert-bernard\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Robert Bernard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Robert Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer, CBRE&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg?w=800\" class=\"wp-image-1004674971 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/Robert-Bernard.jpeg?resize=768,595 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004674971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer, CBRE<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having helped Microsoft on its sustainability journey, CBRE&#8217;s Rob Bernard knows how data and sophisticated computing can address big environmental questions.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE\u2019s 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&#8217;s chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of Client Sustainability Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of the topics covered:<\/p>\n<p>A background in buildings, technology and sustainability (1:38)<br \/>\nHow is real estate doing? (3:52)<br \/>\nCBRE&#8217;s goals and benchmarks (6:28)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">AI, data and sustainability (8:40)<br \/>\n<\/span>Leading the way for clients (14:22)<br \/>\nThe embodied carbon challenge (18:47)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company&#8217;s chief sustainability officer on the intersection of technology, creativity, and decarbonization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":1004676240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21795,21786],"tags":[32789,52571],"class_list":["post-1004674969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-sustainability","tag-cbre","tag-sustainability-street"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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