Earlier this month, I partnered with Submit.com to deliver a presentation on navigating the evolving European sustainability reporting landscape. Key Insights Covered:✅ Understanding the latest ESG reporting requirements✅ Compliance with CSRD, SFDR, and EU Taxonomy✅ Best practices for sustainable data management Want to stay ahead in sustainability reporting? Get in touch to discuss how I can support your ESG strategy 2407 Navigating the European sustainaiblity reporting landscapeDownload...
The trend towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations has accelerated over the last two years. And much of this focus is on real estate. My focus here is on ESG for UK based start-ups and SMEs across the built environment. There’s good reason for this increased focus given that the built environment accounts for 39% of global carbon emissions. With the upsruge in extreme weather events globally, and with the impact of COVID-19, there is also now a much greater awareness of how our buildings and public spaces affect our health, our wellbeing, our communities, and indeed even our infrastructure. ESG in real estate has moved from niche to normal. This is a result of capital requirements, new and emerging regulatory requirements, and a growing demand from investors, clients and employees. And we’re seeing larger asset owners and investors take up the challenge. But from many of my conversations, it's clear that challenges remain for start-ups and SMEs. Taking action now...
On 8 June, I had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion at the FIABCI Congress, held in Paris. The topic for discussion was how do we add value in real estate while also improving the lives of end-users. Here I provide some of my thoughts on this topic. Context
I view value through the lens of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations. I work with companies across the built environment to focus on how they create value. The end-user, whether this be occupiers, local communities, or employees, have to be very much part of the conversations on what constitutes value.
Making the case
The view of value in purely financial terms in real estate and the wider built environment is too narrow. Value needs to be considered in the context of the extent to which activities improve social, environmental and economic wellbeing. And this involves engagement from every discipline including for example, engineers, architects, designers, planners, builders, asset owners and managers. The priority...
The trend towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations in investment decision-making is accelerating. Nowhere is this more apparent than in real estate. And there are good reasons for this. We know that that the built environment accounts for 39% of global carbon emissions. We also know that our buildings and public spaces can have a dramatic impact on our health, wellbeing and productivity. And we’re starting to see climate change impacting on our communities, towns and cities. Sustainability and resilience are the two key factors at play. Embedding ESG considerations into investment decisions is one mechanism through which we can affect real change. But challenges remain with a lack of common reporting standards and metrics. There is also a lack of reliable, comparable, and realtime data, and this is where PropTech comes in.
PropTech and ESG
PropTech can be thought of as the application of digital technology to property. Used well, it has the potential to unlock data that can be used to improve...
I had the pleasure of chairing a webinar for The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on Healthy Living and Housing. This was the first of a six part series looking at the interplay between our lived environments and our health. You can access the session by clicking the link here, and registering. The next session is on 16 September and examines health and home in the context of care homes and community care. Speakers for this session included Julie Godefroy, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Dr Richard Miller, Connected Places Catapult
Annalise Johns, Connected Places Catapult
Dr Helen Crampin, InnovateUK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDnI9pWYbA Clip from The IET's EngShorts series covering many of the points raised in this discussion. What we know and don’t know about the impact of the built environment
Julie provided an overview of the role of CIBSE and their recent guidance, Health and wellbeing in building services. The focus of the guidance is on the effects of the built environment on health, comfort...
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