Award Winners 2009

Green Portfolio Awards

Winners: Grosvenor and Land Securities

Grosvenor is a privately owned property group with offices in 17 of the world's most dynamic cities. The company has five regional investment and development businesses in Britain and Ireland, the Americas, continental Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific, with toal assets under management of £12.6 billion. The company is committed to promoting best practice across all its business operations and focuses on creating well designed, environmentally sustainable buildings and communities.

Land Securities is one of the UK's leading real estate investment trusts. Half of its portfolio is in London, where the company owns many landmark buildings such as the Picadilly Lights and Westminster City Hall, and it is developing some of the capital's most innovative mixed-use schemes through Land Securities' large-scale regeneration projects in Victoria, Southbank, Mid-town and the City.

Gold Portfolio Awards

Winners: British Land, Canary Wharf Group, Transport for London and Workspace Group

British Land is one of the UK's largest Real Estate Investment Trusts with total assets, owned or under management, valued at £12.3 billion. Sustainability is at the core of the business - from community involvement in the planning process, through to developments and refurbishments - allowing it to offer attractive buildings that minimise resource use and meet the needs of occupiers and local communities, now and into the future.

Canary Wharf Group plc (CWG) is an integrated property development, investment and management group of companies. Over the past 20 years it has regenerated derelict wharves in East London into one of the world’s premier business districts, constructing over 15 million square feet of office and retail space. CWG’s 97 acre Estate is home to some of the world’s leading business organisations employing over 90,000 workers in a diverse range of sectors. It is also home to more than 200 shops, bars, cafes and restaurants and 20 acres of landscaped parks and plazas.

Transport for London (TfL) manages the planning and delivery of London’s buses, the Underground, London Overground, the Docklands Light Railway, London Trams, London River Services and the Victoria Coach Station. As well as regulating taxis and the private hire trade, it also manages 580km of the capital’s roads, runs the central London congestion charging scheme and works closely with the rail industry. TfL owns and occupies property including the Tube and bus networks and associated buildings - a portfolio that includes over 300 operational and non-operational locations, along with over 400km of track. The portfolio generates both residential and commercial revenue and provides accommodation for over 20,000 staff in offices and operational locations.

Workspace Group specialises in providing flexible, affordable business space to small and medium sized enterprises throughout London. The current portfolio consists of more than 120 business centres, providing approximately 6.5 million sq ft of office, serviced office, studio, workshop and light industrial facilities let to over 4000 business customers, all of which is owned and managed directly by Workspace Group.

BBP Building Improvement Award

Winner: Hermes Real Estate

Hermes have been awarded the Building Improvement Award for their work at Prospects House which include a 15% CO2 reduction on 2007 levels, averting over 50 tonnes of waste per year from landfill, and reducing water consumption by almost 50% compared to the previous year.

Hermes Real Estate is one of the largest real estate managers in the UK, with in excess of £8.6 billion of gross assets under management. Hermes operates across all the primary markets of retail, office and the industrial sectors and believes that a responsible, sustainable approach to real estate investment, management and development is the only strategy which both protects and enhances the value of our assets.

Commendation to Transport for London

Transport for London are leading the way in addressing climate change and driving change within their property portfolio, exemplified by their work at the Palestra building. The independent judging panel stated that ”TfL are setting a standard that the private sector need to catch up with”.

BBP Owner Occupier Partnership Award

Winner: British Land

British Land and their tenants at Bishopsgate 201 and Broadgate Tower have been awarded for the work they have achieved in partnership to reduce the environmental impacts of the fit-outs of the buildings. This includes achieving 97% of waste being re-used or recycled, diverting 1,693 tonnes waste from landfill and establishing a carbon reduction memorandum of understanding.

The tenants who collaborated with British Land to make this success possible are: Alpari; Henderson Global Investors; Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg; Mayer Brown; and Reed Smith