Green Property Alliance

The BBP is an active member of the Green Property Alliance.

The Green Property Alliance (GPA) was established to promote cross industry communication on the increasingly significant and complex subject of sustainability.

The objectives of the group are:

  • To provide the primary framework for the members to share information about their sustainability projects and, where possible, to achieve collective buy-in to their implementation
  • To avoid duplication and play to the strengths of particular members whose work can then be used for the benefit of the other members
  • Where gaps in coverage by members’ work are identified, to commission specific projects to fill those gaps
  • To present, where possible, a united front in negotiations with Government and other agencies on those issues relating to sustainability where the Alliance has decided to take a collective view
  • To provide a mechanism for coherent and co-ordinated property industry interaction with other sustainability bodies both in the UK and overseas
  • To communicate to Government, other public sector bodies, members, media and, where appropriate, the wider public the initiatives being taken by the industry to improve its sustainability performance
 

Member Organisations Include:

  • Better Buildings Partnership
  • British Property Federation
  • British Retail Consortium
  • British Council for Offices
  • British Council of Shopping Centres
  • CoreNet
  • Investment Property Forum
  • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • UK Green Building Council

 

Current and Past Initiatives Include:

  • Working with the Global Reporting Initiative to develop a sector supplement for the property industry.
  • The establishment of an industry led measurement and metrics working group to establish common metrics for reporting sustainability performance including energy, carbon, waste and water. This is defined in the GPA report Establishing the Ground Rules for Property: Industry-wide Sustainability Metrics
  • Determining guidance for owners and occupiers concerning the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme.