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Low Carbon Commercial Real Estate

The built environment accounts for around 47% of CO2 emissions with a significant proportion of this relating purely to the running and operating of existing buildings and their facilities. The Low Carbon Commercial Real Estate group brings together key players in the built environment to enable best practice sharing and innovation to improve the sustainability of the commercial real-estate stock.

Group members include landlords and tenants, legal experts, academics and policy makers from a range of countries and markets across the world.

Some key topics that are currently discussed include specific energy efficiency technologies for different property classes (warehouses, retail outlets etc), climate change adaptation, sustainability portfolio impacts, building certification and landlord / tenant co-operation to improve energy management.


       
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Upcoming Events

London Exemplar Scheme - Smart Buildings to deliver CO2 Targets

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03:00 p.m. 17 March 2010 (GMT) / 11:00 a.m. 17 March 2010 (EDT)

London Exemplar Scheme - Smart Buildings to deliver CO2 Targets

Buildings Energy Efficiency Programme developed to accelerate retrofitting London's public sector buildings to deliver London's CO2 targets. BEEP is a joint initiative between the Mayor of London, (LDA ...

The advent of provable energy savings: an introduction to the IPMVP

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03:00 p.m. 31 March 2010 (BST) / 10:00 a.m. 31 March 2010 (EDT)

The advent of provable energy savings: an introduction to the IPMVP

The International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP) methodology is increasingly being adopted as an objective and accurate way of measuring and proving energy savings. Join this webinar to find out ...


       
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Working Group Content Preview

25 Feb. 2010
Opportunities for greening commercial real estate

Even in a challenging real estate market, green real estate continues to deliver higher effective rents, higher occupancy, and higher sales prices than their less-green peers.

19 Feb. 2010
Sustainable Community Infrastructure - UK Green Building Council & Zero Carbon Hub

The executive summary of the report published by the UK Green Building Council and the Zero Carbon Hub. The full report can be downloaded here

9 Feb. 2010
1 Feb. 2010
Sustainability benchmarking toolkit for commercial property

A comprehensive toolkit which details the issues and challenges businesses face when benchmarking the sustainability performance of their buildings. Produced by the Better Building Partnership.

21 Jan. 2010
Engineering a low-carbon built environment - Royal Academy of Engineering

This report was published by the Royal Academy of Engineering in January 2010.

18 Jan. 2010
Building the future today-Transforming the economic and carbon performance of non-domestic buildings

What would a carbon reduction target of at least 80% mean for non-domestic buildings in the UK, both in terms of Government policies, and subsequent action from industry, needed to deliver it?

This report was published by the Carbon Trust in December 2009

12 Jan. 2010
Towards Net-Zero: The Key Questions We Must Answer

MITIE works closely with the commercial property industry and we need to know what is in the minds of our customers, who are now facing these challenges.

We asked delegates at Towards Net-Zero ’09 to share their thoughts, ideas and concerns about their move towards the carbon neutral future. This note is a summary of the contributions they posted on our stand and the discussions we held.

4 Jan. 2010
Common Carbon Metric for Measuring Energy Use & GHG Reporting from Building Operators

Report produced by the United Nations Environment Program, Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI), on the Common Carbon Metric

4 Jan. 2010
Buildings and Climate Change: Summary for Decision-Makers

Report produced by the United Nations Environment Program, Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI)

16 Dec. 2009
Leased space energy improvement - ICF case study

A quick case study of our work with Tishman Speyer to find collective energy reduction solutions that benefitted all tenants and property managers.