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Real Estate Repositioning Design

Strategically renovating or improving a property can dramatically change its position in the real estate market, effectively extending the facility’s useful life by retaining or attracting new tenants.

Keeping Your Facilities in Step as Time Marches On

Building owners and operators know that even properly maintained properties can become dated. Upgrades and modifications can help reduce greenhouse emissions and improve financial performance for real estate investments. Our team of experts can help you determine what options are available to keep your real estate assets in high demand.

Improve Performance and Efficiency

Energy costs are often a major factor in deciding whether a company stays in a building or moves to a different one. By properly repositioning a facility, an older building can enjoy many of the energy efficiency benefits found in newly constructed buildings. Our team of experts can help evaluate what improvements are available and the costs involved. The final result can be a facility that is more energy efficient and attractive to tenants.

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Environmental and Healthy Building Benefits

Sustainable and healthy building designs are becoming “must have” requirements for many businesses as they seek to provide safe workplace environments for employees as well as meet corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Upgrades can also help you earn various building certifications to offer as third-party verification of the health and safety of your property.

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Improved Function and Aesthetics

Building owners and operators know positive first impressions can pay big dividends in attracting and retaining tenants. Repositioning your building can also help generate sustained revenue. Our expert designers and engineers have the experience to transform spaces to fit new forms and functions.

Identify New Opportunities

The three Rs of good conservation — reduce, reuse, and recycle — can also apply to aging buildings. Just because a property has moved beyond its usefulness in one category doesn’t mean it can’t find new life in another. An old manufacturing facility can be transformed into a unique new office space. A storefront in a shuttered strip mall can become a life sciences or healthcare facility. Whatever your vision, we can help with the technical expertise to make your real estate repositioning a reality.

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Creativity, insight, partnership. Better spaces to work, to live, and to plan for the future.

10-30 South Wacker Drive Lobby Repositioning and Expansion
Services: Eco+Energy, MEP/FP Engineering
Willis Tower Podium Repositioning
Services: MEP/FP Engineering

News and Events: Our Engineers in Action

Patel Joins Panel at Diverse Developers Conference

The inaugural event looking to foster collaboration between real estate developers throughout the Midwest is set to take place in Chicago October 12. The goal is to focus on underrepresented populations in commercial real estate. (Learn more about Diverse Developers Conference.) 

Lehrer Examines Challenges of Moving to All-Electric Buildings

When moving to more efficient power options, building owners and operators are often faced with difficult decisions deciding what to do with existing gas-fired heating systems—especially in colder climates. (Learn more about building electrification.)

Going Beyond Building Certifications

Going green with building certifications like LEED, WELL, and Energy Star can be a significant step towards reaching net zero carbon emission goals, but ESD, now Stantec Energy Engineer Matthew Zweibruck says don’t stop there. (Learn more about the FacilitiesNet summit.)

What Solutions to Real Estate Asset Repositioning Can We Bring to You?

Our engineers, sustainability and technology designers are geared to solve problems unique to your situation. How can we help?

How can we help reposition your property?

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