Partner’s Technical Director – Structural Engineering, Joshua Marrow, PE and Principal, Jenny Redlin, REA presented an informative webinar today regarding the Essentials of Seismic Risk Assessments. This hour long presentation covered many important topics such as; Why do we perform Seismic Risk Assessments? Who are Seismic Risk Assessment Users? Why a Seismic Risk Assessment is Pruden... Read More »
Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. is pleased to launch our spring webinar series. This series offers new and updated webinars that discuss commercial real estate trends, standards updates and changes as they affect the commercial real estate industry. Registration for all webinars is at no cost to industry professionals. Webinar Topics Include: The Essentials of Seismic Risk Assessments Why ... Read More »
The benefits of green building and energy efficiency are real and increasingly want to be realized by commercial real estate investors and tenants alike. Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.’s green retrofit of their new company headquarters in Los Angeles provided Partner with firsthand experience in realizing those benefits. By undertaking this project Partner is now able to provide inval... Read More »
During the acquisition, refinance or foreclosure of a property, it is important to understand the asset’s potential environmental liability in order to protect your investment and to weigh the risks associate with that investment. This means making sure that there is no major environmental liability associated with the current or past use of the subject property. There are a few due diligence st... Read More »
Being that Colorado is an area with a high radon propensity, it is important to know how radon can impact a real estate transaction. Sellers, lenders, and developers need to be aware of the risks of radon and how it can impact their commercial real estate deal. Radon testing can be completed to assess whether a particular building has elevated levels and radon mitigation, if necessary, can o... Read More »
In California where environmental regulations are famously conservative, a policy went into effect last fall making it a little easier to close certain low-risk sites contaminated by leaking petroleum underground storage tanks. Owners or responsible parties of these leaking UST sites should be aware of this program to see whether their site qualifies. Overview of the Low-Threat Underground Sto... Read More »
Entry by JoeDerhake Entry What if you are doing two Phase I Environmental Reports and run into the exact same environmental issue, one site in Mexicali and one site in Calexico? Would you treat these issues the same? First, Mexicali is a Mexican border down about 100 miles east of San Diego; this might be most familiar to Dead Heads via the Dead song,” Mexicali Blu... Read More »
Entry by JoeDerhake Entry What if you are doing two Phase I Environmental Reports and run into the exact same environmental issue, one site in Mexicali and one site in Calexico? Would you treat these issues the same? First, Mexicali is a Mexican border down about 100 miles east of San Diego; this might be most familiar to Dead Heads via the Dead song,” Mexicali Blu... Read More »
It’s been a full month since this year’s MBA CREF conference and time to look back at the conference happenings. During the 2013 MBA CREF conference that took place from February 2 through February 6, the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) presented their State of the State breakfast. This year, Mary K. Ludgin, Ph.D., Managing Director, and Director of Global Investment R... Read More »
The benefits of green building and energy efficiency are real and increasingly want to be realized by commercial real estate investors and tenants alike. Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.’s green retrofit of their new company headquarters in Los Angeles provided Partner with firsthand experience in realizing those benefits. By undertaking this project, Partner is now able to provide inva... Read More »
