Environmental, social, and governance reporting are becoming key qualifiers for investors to meet the challenge of more aggressive carbon reduction goals to be addressed in Net-Zero energy laboratory and manufacturing buildings. The investment community not only measures energy and water use reductions but considers employee health and inclusive businesses as major indicators of a company's success.

Dirk von Below of Flad Architects will discuss a large corporate campus development for a biotech research and manufacturing site that is planning for future energy markets, generating energy on-site, and evaluating how long-term goals can be achieved in the design of energy-intensive research and manufacturing facilities.