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LaSalle develops TRI, Munich’s first timber office building

28 February 2023

LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) and Accumulata Real Estate Group (Accumulata) are developing Munich’s first hybrid timber office building, TRI.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: LaSalle Investment Management

Brookfield Properties upgrades 1930s building to 21st century standards

14 February 2023

At The Gilbert in London, Brookfield Properties has brought energy performance up to modern standards while retaining 90% of the original structure

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: Brookfield Properties

Royal London Asset Management launches fully electric hotel and minimises whole life carbon

06 February 2023

The Leonardo Royal Hotel in Bristol is Royal London Asset Management’s first fully electric hotel, with all heating, cooling and hot water provided by air source heat pumps and mains electricity. A whole life carbon study in line with the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) Advancing Net Zero guidance evidences that the project outperforms best practice standards for both embodied and operational carbon. All space has been designed for the wellbeing of guests and staff.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: Royal London Asset Management

abrdn pioneers nature-based solutions in the UK

14 December 2022

The abrdn Property Income Trust (aPIT), one of abrdn’s real assets investment strategies, has launched one of the largest native woodland and peatland restoration projects in the UK, at Far Ralia Estate in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park. This pioneering project will maximise environmental and social co-benefits, alongside climate impact. The land extends across more than 1,400 hectares – the size of nearly 2,000 football pitches. Works will include planting at least 1.5 million trees, focusing on native species such as Scots Pine, Oak and Birch.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: abrdn

Orchard Street Investment Management Transforms Energy Performance Across Industrial Portfolio

12 July 2022

Improving existing building stock is critical to delivering a net zero carbon future for the UK. To accelerate progress towards a net zero portfolio, Orchard Street Investment Management has successfully upgraded an additional 35 industrial units to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings of B or above, largely through refurbishment, in just two and a half years. Nine units achieved the highest rating A+, predicted to be operationally carbon neutral for regulated building energy. Plans are in place for remaining assets lower than EPC D to be raised to B or above.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: Orchard Street Investment Management

GPE Accelerates Progress to Net Zero Through Industry-Leading Internal Carbon Price

12 January 2022

GPE’s internal carbon price of £95 per tonne, which originally launched in 2020, is transforming behaviour and driving innovation in the race to net zero. Covering both embodied carbon and operational emissions, this internal carbon price goes further than others in the UK real estate sector. All contributions feed into a Decarbonisation Fund, created to support the deep retrofitting of the existing portfolio, further accelerating the transition to net zero and building in climate resilience for the future of London.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: GPE

Consultation Response: Non-domestic Private Rented Sector minimum energy efficiency standards: EPC B implementation

09 June 2021

The Better Buildings Partnership has published its Consultation Response to the proposed Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, which suggest that the non-domestic private rented centre be required to obtain an EPC rating of B or above by 2030.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Publications

NABERS UK Presentation Slides and Webinar Recording

27 November 2020

Access the slides and recording from the NABERS UK launch here.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Events