Real Estate Strategy and Transformation

We start by asking “where?”
Our location intelligence professionals can add geospatial science to the data and analytics equation. We use information and help create understanding in ways that aren’t often possible with traditional analytical frameworks and methods.

What is “geospatial?”
Spatial information is data associated with a specific geography. This capability—relating data with a place—helps unlock powerful insights.

Our team has helped hundreds of organizations make difficult location decisions—from moving the corporate headquarters, to paring down retail stores, to opening new manufacturing facilities in light of the energy transition, and much more. We have the industry-leading knowledge to help you navigate high-stakes location decisions with the clarity and confidence required to help attain management and ownership buy-in.

Our Location Strategy Tool
An optimal location strategy allows a company to help deliver cost-effective outcomes, to attract and retain talent and to deliver a company’s strategic vision. Making a well thought out decision rooted in quantifiable methods and integrated with relevant, accurate data can be difficult and time consuming.

Combining PwC’s industry-leading services with our tech-enabled asset location strategy tool has a proven methodology, sustainability criteria, and location strategy knowledge. We can help bring structure and order to a traditionally complex decision making process.

Workplace

• How flexible and versatile is your space?
• In an increasingly virtual world, how can you rationalize real estate as a business essential expense?
• How can you determine what locations are critical to your presence? Do they help support your future, or are they anchors to your past?
• How should the workplace change to enable new ways of working?
• How can you help create an environment of innovation and organizational commitment?

Workforce

• How can you evolve your culture, and help build on your cultural strengths?
• What new skills and behaviors can help guide you forward?
• What are the needs, preferences, and motivations of your employees?
• What benefit and performance policies should likely be updated?
• How can you help create community, foster collaboration and commitment, and enable your leaders to lead differently, in a hybrid work world?

Technology

• How can you enable the mobility and the freedom of choice to work when and how you like, while also helping protect your business?
• What technologies will likely be required to enable mobility, efficiency, and security? How can your clients and business partners engage with you more seamlessly?

Real estate’s impact on the environment is clear

Our integrated team of real estate occupier, investment, energy management, and sustainability professionals can:

• Help your organization achieve its real estate environmental and sustainability goals
• Create measurable ROI such as:
  • 25% reduction in energy costs saves companies $500k/million sq. ft. of real estate¹
  • Conformity with Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) reporting and platforms such as Science Based Targets initiative (“SBTi”), Global ESG Benchmark for Real Assets (“GRESB”) etc. and regulatory disclosures
  • Create a healthier environment for your employees

<sub>Sources
1. Davies, Michael. What Is The Average Utility Cost Per Square Foot Of Commercial Property? July 30, 2019.</sub>

Our decarbonization approach

An asset or portfolio level ESG strategy across real estate could be a multistep process. We can help you build a custom approach incorporating the following levers and help you meet your ESG and decarbonization goals across real estate.

Strategy development

• Develop ESG strategies, goals, and playbooks
• Identify sustainable design and wellness opportunities

Regulatory & Reporting

• Help meet compliance and regulatory requirements
• Help design reporting processes

Decarbonization

• Identify energy savings opportunities through benchmarking and data analytics
• Analyze Scope 1,2,3 emissions impacts

Expansion Due Diligence

• Help define and assess due diligence criteria for new site or building acquisitions
• Integrate ESG criteria into real estate investment decisions
• Select sustainable sites for new locations

Improve Energy Management

• Monitoring & benchmarking energy performance
• Improving HVAC operations & maintenance practices
• Implementing fault detection & diagnosis systems