World Built Environment Forum Summit | 11-12 May, Shenzhen, China

Buildings are a major contributor to climate change, estimated by the US Green Building Council to account for 39% of US carbon emissions, and yet less than 1% of construction revenues are reinvested into research and development.

Real estate is known for being an industry that's slow to transact, with every deal requiring the parallel or linear workflows of a number of parties – legal, title, appraisal and finance – and the challenges of making this work happen quickly is a contributing factor to the illiquidity of real estate as an asset.