Green Building Symposium: High Performance Lending meets High-Performance Building

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Green Building Symposium: High Performance Lending meets High-Performance Building

This event is free and open to the public; however, your reservation is requested.

Overview
Green Energy Money offers “high-performance” building lending and appraisal solutions for architects, builders, contractors, real estate agents and real estate owners. GEM’s strategic alliances of certified energy raters, appraisers and lenders have joined forces to provide economic solutions and quantified analysis metrics. GEM supports the green building market with financial tools, standardized methods to achieve exceptional results for absorbing capital outlays and translating economic, cost benefits to markets.

Green Energy Money, Inc., (GEM), has developed a financial, marketing-education platform. They provide a qualified workforce of loan officers, underwriters and appraisers combining streamlined loan processes with innovative, competitive financing; and have successfully attained the desired result of recognized green premium values between 5%-12% , with as little as 5 percent down payments. The GEM beta program of over $20m in loans have funded on the secondary market. (See case studies www.greenenergy-money.com)

Objectives

• Monetize the process of a high performance design approach.
• Translate the economic cost and benefits to Owners and Builders.
• Understand how envelope design and performance effect the appraisal and financing of a building.
• Gain knowledge of lending solutions.

Presenter: Teresa Lopez, Bio
Green Energy Money (GEM), CEO; Security National Mortgage Company (SNMC), Director, Green Business Development & Education

• LEED Accredited, Licensed Mortgage Banker over 25 yrs.; funded over $1B + in residential & development loans
• Driving new regulatory & legislative policies for High-Performance & Incentivized Financing Programs in Washington DC - stakeholders include the DOE, HUD, Fannie Mae, The Appraisal Foundation, legislators, energy policy makers
• Awarded two US Patents on Green Financing Mechanisms-Developed National Curriculum-Quantifying Value for Green Homes
• Published Author, “Green Energy Money for “Green Energy Money for Residential Properties”
• Licensed Mortgage Banker NMLS #383747

This session has been approved for 1.5 LU AIA credits.

Parking
As this is a free event, parking will not be validated. The typical cost to park in nearby Hobby Center and Theater District Garages ranges from $7-$10. Downtown street parking is also recommended and may be free after 6PM.