16 October 2017
Associate professor Nils Kok in Huffington Post

The motives behind sustainable construction

Estate investors financially benefit from sustainable buildings, says Nils Kok, associate professor of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. His research into the financial effects of sustainable construction is discussed in an article in the Huffington Post.

Sustainable building

Kok also speaks with John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) about the three motives behind the explosive growth of sustainable construction (investors, owners and tenants) in the sustainability podcast ‘The Race to 9 Billion’, mentioned in the Huffington Post.

Read the full article of the Huffington Post here.
Listen to the podcast here.

 

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