Nova Group, GBC and Verdani Partners Advance Strategic Collaboration to Help Real Estate Owners Navigate Building Performance and Decarbonization Requirements
- 6 days ago
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The partnership combines Nova's technical execution expertise with Verdani's sustainability advisory leadership to help clients move from compliance planning to implementation and measurable performance improvements.
As building performance standards, energy regulations, and performance-based sustainability expectations continue to evolve, commercial real estate owners and operators need practical pathways to assess exposure, address data challenges, achieve compliance, and improve building performance. Nova Group, GBC is pleased to join a strategic collaboration with Verdani Partners designed to help clients move from sustainability planning and regulatory analysis into implementation and measurable results.
The collaboration is part of the Verdani Partner Program, a framework designed to connect clients with trusted advisory, technical, and implementation resources aligned with their sustainability goals, portfolio needs, and regulatory requirements.
The collaboration brings together Verdani's expertise in sustainability strategy, program management, reporting, and client advisory services with Nova's technical capabilities in building performance standards support, energy audits, retro-commissioning, energy management planning, engineering analysis, and implementation support.
Together, Nova and Verdani will build on our existing history of collaboration to provide a coordinated approach that helps clients evaluate regulatory exposure, address data gaps, strengthen compliance readiness, and develop practical strategies to improve asset performance and advance decarbonization goals.
"Nova Group, GBC is excited to collaborate with Verdani Partners to help real estate clients navigate complex building performance requirements with clear technical analysis, practical workflows, and implementation-focused support." — Keely Felton, CEA, Chief Sustainability Officer, Nova Group, GBC.
A key focus of the collaboration is helping clients overcome common barriers to implementation, including utility data gaps, understanding compliance pathways for Building Performance Standards, aligning recommendations with capital needs, retro-commissioning existing systems, and asset-specific technical analysis. By clarifying responsibilities and improving coordination between assessment and strategy, Nova and Verdani aim to help clients move more efficiently from planning to execution.
“Clients need more than exposure analysis. They need clear ownership, coordinated workflows, and practical support to move from compliance planning to action. Our collaboration with Nova Group, GBC helps strengthen that bridge.” — Zachary Brown, Executive Director of Sustainability, Verdani Partners
As sustainability reporting requirements, building performance standards, and decarbonization expectations continue to mature, Nova remains committed to helping clients turn sustainability goals into actionable strategies that improve performance, reduce risk, and create long-term value.
Read the full announcement: Verdani Partners Launches Partner Program With Key Technology, Data, Technical, and Implementation Collaborators — Verdani Partners
Learn more about the Verdani Partner Program: Strategic Partnerships | Verdani Partners
About Nova Group, GBC
Nova Group, GBC is an international multidisciplinary advisory firm providing environmental, engineering, energy, sustainability, construction, and valuation services throughout North America and around the world. Founded in Minnesota in 1987, Nova is a Certified B Corporation™ and General Benefit Corporation committed to balancing purpose and profit while helping clients manage risk, enhance asset value, and achieve their environmental and business objectives. With a global network of experts and a client-focused approach, Nova delivers innovative, cost-effective solutions across the commercial real estate, infrastructure, and built environment sectors.
About Verdani Partners
Verdani Partners is a leading real estate performance, decarbonization, and resilience advisor helping commercial real estate owners and investors strengthen asset value, manage risk, meet reporting and regulatory demands, and accelerate long-term portfolio value. With nearly two billion square feet under guidance and more than 25 years of experience, Verdani helps high-performance portfolios move from strategy into action across performance improvement, capital planning, compliance readiness, green building certifications, strategic communications, stakeholder reporting, and asset-level implementation. By connecting sustainability, risk, regulation, and operations, Verdani helps clients make stronger portfolio decisions and turn plans into measurable progress.
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Keely Felton, CEA | Chief Sustainability Officer
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