3 Reasons for an Early Sustainability Feasibility Study for Your Project
Evolving green building and energy codes impact the cost assessment and early schematic design of projects, which building owners and design teams must understand. Sustainability feasibility studies are undertaken early in the construction document (CD) phase to effectively address sustainability goals and requirement ...
Posted on 14/12/21
Sustainability Becomes Part of Investment Advice: ESG – Mandatory or Optional?
Sustainability is becoming an integral part of the suitability test of investments. With the EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, the EU has created binding rules for financial advisors. It also underlines its ambitions in the fight against climate change and sets a clear signal for the reallocation of cap ...
Posted on 13/12/21
Categorizing Building Certification Systems According to the Definition of Sustainable Building
There are several sustainable – "green" – building certifications schemes and great variation in how they are structured, evaluated, and weight social, environmental and economic dimensions. For the definition of "sustainable building certification", this paper from 2019 gives the three dimensions equal weight. Activ ...
Posted on 12/12/21
Construction Supply Chains and Their Role in Sustainability
It is suggested that standards and regulation of the construction of the supply chain would be less effective than the "ethical approach" and third-party monitoring. At best, developers and construction companies make an ethical choice as regards sustainable procurement, for which the value for money (VfM) framework a ...
Posted on 12/12/21
SDGs: Answering the Big Questions for the Real Estate Industry – What, Where, Why and How?
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) provide comprehensive sustainable development criteria along a property's value chain and whole-life cycle. Since the real estate industry is chiefly responsible for the development and management of property, it must also lead the environmental stewardship of the built environment ...
Posted on 11/12/21
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