Grosvenor

Grosvenor is a privately owned property group with offices in 17 of the world's most dynamic cities.  We have five regional investment & development businesses in Britain & Ireland, the Americas, Continental Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific.  Our international fund management business operates across all these markets.  As at 31 December 2009, these six businesses had total assets under management of £10.2bn.  Unusually for a private company, Grosvenor publishes a full Annual Report & Accounts, available at www.grosvenor.com

We are committed to promoting best practice across all our business operations and focus on creating well designed, environmentally sustainable buildings and communities. This is a fundamental element of our brand which we have built over 300 years. We are a founding member of the Better Buildings Partnership and actively involved in its five working groups. As part of this work, we are pleased to have adopted BBP’s Memorandum of Understanding on Green Leases which we are implementing across our London Estate.

"As one of the leading property companies in the UK, Grosvenor is committed to promoting sustainable forms of development and tackling the causes of climate change. Reducing carbon emissions from existing buildings has an important part to play in this challenge and we are therefore delighted to be a founding member of the Better Buildings Partnership. The BBP enables the public and private sectors, as both owners and occupiers, to pool their sustainability expertise and help develop innovative environmental solutions to make London a World Sustainable Low Carbon City. We very much look forward to working with the Mayor to make the Better Buildings Partnership a success."  Nigel Hughes - Grosvenor Estates Planning & Environment Director (Great Britain & Ireland)