ACEC California, formerly known as CELSOC, is a statewide association representing more than 1,100 private consulting engineering and land-surveying firms that average 20 employees each. ACEC California is dedicated to enhancing the consulting engineering and land surveying professions, protecting the general public and promoting the use of the private sector in the growth and development of our state.  Our members provide services for all phases of planning, designing and constructing projects.  For more information, visit www.acec-ca.org.

Camden Property Trust, an S&P 400 Company, is a real estate company engaged in the ownership, development, acquisition, management and disposition of multifamily apartment communities. Camden owns interests in and operates 181 properties containing 62,903 apartment homes across the United States. Upon completion of five properties under development, the Company’s portfolio will increase to 64,329 apartment homes in 186 properties. Camden was recently named by FORTUNE® Magazine for the second consecutive year as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in America.

DivcoWest, one of the fastest-growing real estate investment, development and management firms in the U.S., is the real estate partner to tenant companies of the New Economy, providing creative and flexible real estate solutions to match the dynamic business plans of high tech and other rapidly expanding companies. They have holdings in fast growing markets like the Silicon Valley, Boston, Denver and Austin, among others.

Ernst & Young's (E&Y) Real Estate practice provides strategic tax, audit and advisory services to owners, users and investors in real estate. The company's clients include major multinational corporations, Fortune 500 companies and large public and private real estate ventures such as homebuilders and REITs. E&Y has the premiere hospitality advisory practice in the world and produces multiple reports and forecasts on the hotel and travel industry.

Equity Office

Equity Office is one of the largest owners of commercial office space in the country and controls over 60 million square feet of Class A office space in Northern California, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Columbus, Miami, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Boca Raton, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Minneapolis and Detroit. The Pacific Northwest forms the company’s largest region with more than 19 million square feet of commercial office assets and numerous development and retail sites in both Northern California and Seattle. In Northern California, Equity Office owns and manages 18.5 million square feet of Class A office space spread throughout Silicon Valley, the Peninsula, East Bay and North Bay.  The company also operates San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building, which includes 175,000 square feet of Class A office above 65,000 square feet of artisanal retail space.  The Equity Office team features highly experienced real estate asset managers, investors, developers and property specialists focused on accelerating the market value, operational efficiencies and sustainability of its investment portfolio and enhancing the tenant experience.  

GLL Development and Management

GLL Development and Management is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GLL Real Estate Partners dedicatedto sponsoring and managing development projects in the Americas.  GLL Development and Management is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GLL Real Estate Partners

GLL Real Estate Partners was established in October of 2000 to provide real estate investment advisory services to institutional clients.  GLL, with over $5 billion in assets under management, is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and employs over sixty dedicated professionals throughout its offices in Frankfurt, Luxembourg, San Francisco, and Orlando.  GLL's European and Americas professionals reinforce each other's strengths through extensive communications and a close working relationship.  The GLL Americas portfolio with over $1 billion under management is overseen by a U.S. team organized with Eastern and Western regions.

Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) is a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate. The firm offers integrated services delivered by expert teams worldwide to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying or investing in real estate. With 2008 global revenue of $2.7 billion, Jones Lang LaSalle serves clients in 60 countries from 750 locations worldwide, including 180 corporate offices.  The firm is an industry leader in property and corporate facility management services, with a portfolio of approximately 1.3 billion square feet worldwide. LaSalle Investment Management, the company’s investment management business, is one of the world’s largest and most diverse in real estate with more than $46 billion of assets under management.

MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors

Based in Detroit, Michigan, MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, Inc. (MGRA) is one of the fastest-growing real estate investment managers in the country. As of 2007, MayfieldGentry hels approximately $713 million in assets under management, and has been ranked amonth the Top 100 investment advisors in the United States (by Pensions & Investments magazine) for three years running. The firm's portfolio totals more than 4.02 million square feet and includes properties located throughout the US. In 2006, MayfieldGentry formed the MGRA Genesis Valure Fund, a $180 million value-added fund to acquire a diversified portfolio of properties in specific markets nationwide.

Portfolio Property Management Global, LLC, is a dynamic U.S.-based property management firm established in 2005.  Headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, with regional offices in Northern California, Michigan and Washington D.C., PPM Global already manages a diverse, 3.4 Million-square foot portfolio of income-producing properties spread out across seven states, coast to coast and valued in excess of $4.3 billion. PPM Global expertise spans all of the income property sectors from retail and office to multi-family and industrial properties. PPM Global's property responsibilities are located in some of the nation's most competitive markets. www.ppm-global.com

Shorenstein Properties, LLC

Shorenstein Company is one of the country's largest and oldest real estate organizations active on a national scale in all aspects of ownership, management, leasing, and development of high-quality office properties. Their portfolio of trophy office buildings includes the Russ Building and One California in San Francisco, the Starett Lehigh Building in New York City, and Hamilton Square in Washington, D.C.

The Swig Company, a private real estate investment company with a portfolio of quality commercial property assets in major U.S. cities, adds value to its investment portfolio through proactive management, development and/or disposition of existing assets.

Wareham Development

Wareham is one of the largest developers in the Bay Area with over four million square feet of property, including over one million square feet of biotechnology and laboratory space. Wareham pioneered several of the early biotech labs in the early 1980s and as one of the largest owners of lab space in the country, provides work space for companies like Chiron, Xoma, Bayer, Roche, US EPA, PIC, the Molecular Sciences Institute and several others in its portfolio of custom labs.