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The Better Buildings Partnership regularly publishes blog pieces, news articles, toolkits and case studies that highlight the latest sustainability developments in the UK commercial real estate industry. The resources can be filtered hereunder by topic, type and member.

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Beyond Risk Management: How sustainability is driving innovation in commercial real estate finance

Fri 21 Apr 2017

The paper outlines how leading lenders are exploring new opportunities that go beyond risk management through sustainability initiatives that drive new business, strengthen customer relationships and improve the data they hold on the buildings in which they have an interest.

Topic: Investment

Type: Publications

Real Estate Environmental Benchmark - A 5 Year Journey

Tue 19 Jul 2016

Using the data gathered to produce REEB, the report provides a retrospective assessment of how BBP members’ portfolios have performed over the past 5 years, demonstrating what the members have achieved in energy and carbon intensity reductions.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Publications

BBP Impact Report 2015/16

Thu 16 Jun 2016

Our inaugural impact report details the BBP's progress towards meeting our objectives of knowledge sharing, leadership, innovation, influence and collaboration.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Publications

2015 Real Estate Environmental Benchmarks

Tue 08 Mar 2016

The Real Estate Environmental Benchmark (REEB) is a publicly available operational benchmark of environmental performance for commercial property in the UK.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Publications

Establishing the Ground Rules for Property: Industry-Wide Sustainability Metrics

Tue 01 Jan 2013

The Green Property Alliance identified the need for greater consistency and clarity in the way in which the sustainability performance of buildings and wider property portfolios is measured and reported upon.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Publications

Design for Performance Feasibility Study

Tue 24 May 2016

This is the final report of a feasibility study into the potential for UK implementation of a Design for Performance approach, similar to the NABERS Commitment Agreement used in Australia since 2002 to promise and then achieve high in-use energy efficiency levels in new prime office buildings. It sets out the justification, structure and forward actions for creating a UK Commitment Agreement whereby a developer of a new building or major refurbishment commits to achieving a specific, measured in-use energy target. Its findings result from extensive input by Australian and UK experts and widespread consultation with the many stakeholders from both property and construction industries who are involved in creating and then managing large, new office buildings.

Topic: Design for Performance

Type: Publications

Design for Performance Not Compliance: Making Measured Energy In-Use the Objective for New Office Buildings

Tue 24 May 2016

The paper describes the transformation that has taken place over the last 15 years in the energy efficiency of new office buildings constructed in Australia and considers if and how countries across Europe could follow suit. The success in Australia has been greatest for the ‘base building’: the energy used by the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC) and hot water supplies serving the whole building...

Topic: Design for Performance

Type: Publications

NABERS Commitment Agreement Review Report

Tue 24 May 2016

This report reviews the operation of the Commitment Agreement in Australia, where the developer of a new building signs up to delivering an agreed level of in-use energy performance, expressed in terms of the NABERS energy star rating, used to benchmark buildings in use.

Topic: Design for Performance

Type: Publications