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    • Metering
    • Smart Buildings
    • Extending the Landlord's right to do works
    • Restrictions on the Landlord’s right to do works
    • Addition to clause governing Tenant’s alterations
    • Expansion of the Tenant’s ability to do alterations which Improve the Environmental Performance or EPC Rating
    • Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)
    • Recycling of Waste
    • Yield Up
    • Circular Economy Principles for Landlord and Tenant Works
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Standards
    • Renewable Energy
    • Rent review - open market
    • Service Charge
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Smart Buildings

Statement of Intent

The Lease contains a provision which a) ensures L and T regularly and transparently share data regarding at least the use of energy, water and waste within the Premises and the Building (including the common parts) and where agreed other Environmental Performance [and Social Impact] data with confidentiality obligations re all data  and tenant consent to access for landlord to its relevant data direct from tenant‘s supplier and b) ensures that an individual meter/submeter/AMR can be installed in the Premises  to capture energy and water  usage and c) ensures proper use of any smart building technology .

Preamble 

Where a landlord or tenant has incurred the expense of installing smart building technology in the Premises or the Building to ensure more granular data collection and/or more responsive and efficient control of systems in the Building or the Premises it is helpful to both parties if nothing prevents the efficient use of this technology. 

Suggested Drafting

Suggested Drafting

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Where the Building [or the Premises] incorporates smart building technology being any advanced technology which obtains and collates data and uses that data to identify measures to optimize the performance of [the Building] [or the Premises] the Tenant must ensure that it complies with the Digital Protocol Policy and the Landlord and the Tenant must not do anything which adversely affects the efficient operation of any smart building technology. 

Drafting note 

This provision should be inserted into the Sustainability schedule (Schedule 7) of the MCL. 

GREEN LEASE TOOLKIT

  • USING THE TOOLKIT
  • ABOUT GREEN LEASES
  • GREEN LEASE CLAUSES
    • Introduction to Legal Drafting & Definitions
    • Co-operation Provision
    • Building Management Group
    • Social Impact
    • Sustainable Use
    • Data Sharing
    • Metering
    • Smart Buildings
    • Extending the Landlord's right to do works
    • Restrictions on the Landlord’s right to do works
    • Addition to clause governing Tenant’s alterations
    • Expansion of the Tenant’s ability to do alterations which Improve the Environmental Performance or EPC Rating
    • Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)
    • Recycling of Waste
    • Yield Up
    • Circular Economy Principles for Landlord and Tenant Works
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Standards
    • Renewable Energy
    • Rent review - open market
    • Service Charge
  • GREEN LEASE ESSENTIALS
  • HEADS OF TERMS GUIDANCE
  • OWNER & OCCUPIER ENGAGEMENT
  • CASE STUDIES
  • USEFUL RESOURCES
  • TOOLKIT GOVERNANCE
  • TOOLKIT FEEDBACK
  • QUICK DOWNLOAD: ALL DOCUMENTS
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