Lia Manos is a second year Master of Real Estate Development with a concentration in sustainability at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. Currently Lia is working at CBRE with the Investment Properties Institutional Group as she finishes her final semester at NYU. This past semester a bulk of Lia’s classes have incorporated green building and infrastructure, highlighting the ongoing problem that we are facing as our infrastructure and built environment ages. Outside of her professional and educational experience she has a passion for the environment, existing buildings and the state of our world. Real estate has the opportunity to have a large impact on climate change and her long-term goal is to help develop sustainable buildings.