Sustaining Change

John Scott is a big believer in sustainable building management. He's practically a national champion of it. He just doesn't want a bunch of business-killing rules coming out of Tallahassee or Washington that mandate sustainability that the market won't support.

Scott, recently lured from Cushman and Wakefield to Colliers International as executive vice president for property management, believes in taking energy-efficient technologies and driving them straight to the marketplace by demonstrating their value to commercial building owners and tenants; let the numbers make the pitch.

“Sustainability provides a triple bottom in effect: reduce costs, provide the same or superior service and provide a better environment for people to work in,” he says. The case is a business and marketing one, not a legislative one. Basically, to Scott, it just makes good business sense.