ICSC Names Jerry Yudelson Its First Research Scholar
New York (Business Wire) September 26, 2007—The International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc. (ICSC) has named Jerry Yudelson, PE, MS, MBA, LEED AP, principal of Yudelson Associates, Tucson, Ariz., as its first Research Scholar. Mr. Yudelson’s research will focus on Retail Real Estate Sustainability. Mr. Yudelson’s will hold the position as the ICSC’s Research Scholar for Retail Real Estate Sustainability for a period of two years.
ICSC created the Research Scholar Program in an effort to provide its members with the most accurate and up-to-date research on specific topics affecting the retail real estate industry. ICSC Research Scholars will work with the ICSC Research Department to publish books, articles and other publications, as well as act as speakers at meetings and conferences. The Research Scholar will also be a resource for ICSC members to answer any questions they may have pertaining to the scholar’s area of expertise
“The global retail real estate industry will benefit from ICSC’s new Research Scholar Program that will address specific industry issues with the help of ‘thought leaders,’ who are some of the leading authorities on these topics,” said Michael P. Niemira, ICSC’s chief economist and director of research. “Jerry Yudelson is a leading authority on sustainability and as the retail real estate industry embraces green building practices it will be extremely beneficial to have Mr. Yudelson educating our industry on sustainability,” Niemira added.
Mr. Yudelson served on the national board of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is an expert in the LEED green building rating system. He currently leads the consulting team at Yudelson Associates and provides his clients with expert guidance on creating, developing, designing and marketing green building projects. Mr. Yudelson has more than 25 years of experience with renewable energy systems, green building design, site planning, environmental remediation and water conservation. He is the author of six books on green buildings including Green Building: A to Z (2007), The Green Building Revolution (2007), Marketing Green Buildings: Guide for Engineering, Construction, Architecture (2006) and Developing Green: Strategies for Success (2006).
Founded in 1957, ICSC is the premier global trade association for the retail real estate industry. Its over 70,000 members in 100 countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, retailers and brokers, as well as academics and public officials. Headquartered in New York City, ICSC has over 150 staff members and offices in Washington, D.C., Toronto, London, Beijing and Singapore.
About Jerry Yudelson
Jerry Yudelson, is a leading green building consultant and national authority on green buildings and corporate sustainability, with three books on marketing green buildings and more than three dozen magazine and newsletter articles to his credit during the past three years. His forthcoming book, The Green Building Revolution (Island Press, October 2007), details how green buildings are entering every sector of the building industry. He is also the senior editor of the web site, http://www.igreenbuild.com, where he writes a monthly column. Mr. Yudelson is a former Board Member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a national nonprofit with some 10,000 corporate, agency and institutional members. He has trained more than 3,000 people in the LEED green building assessment framework since 2001, and he served on two national committees developing the next generation of green building standards.
About the Green Building Consulting firm, Yudelson Associates
Yudelson Associates, Tucson, AZ, http://www.greenbuildconsult.com, is a green building consulting company dedicated to “growing the business of green building” and facilitating sustainability initiatives in higher education and the corporate world. Yudelson Associates offers project-specific green building consulting services, green building marketing consulting, workshops, keynote speaking, and corporate or institutional sustainability planning.
