Case Studies

To share learnings from the approaches, challenges and achievements of our members with the wider industry, we develop case studies showcasing best-practice or innovative projects our members have undertaken.

The Big Energy Race: Powering Change Across London’s Workspaces

The Big Energy Race is a Workspace portfolio wide energy reduction campaign. The campaign was first delivered in February 2024 and after a successful month of tenant engagement and energy reduction is was repeated in November 2024. In the latest campaign, Each site was given an energy saving target, dependent on its previous energy consumption. The sites were categorised in four clusters and the site in each cluster that surpassed its energy-saving target by most won trees planted in the UK.

intu – LED Rollout Cuts Energy Costs and Carbon Emissions

05 April 2016

Over the last three years, intu has installed more than 100,000 LED light bulbs across 12 shopping centres, through an £8 million capital investment project. This is reducing operational costs, improving lighting quality, saving CO2 and contributing towards intu’s corporate responsibility objectives.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

BBP Members Use Big Data to Improve Comfort and Efficiency

01 March 2016

Canary Wharf Group, Land Securities, M&G Real Estate, TH Real Estate, The Crown Estate and TfL are all using Demand Logic’s system to improve building performance. The system collects data through the BMS and analyses it, producing simple graphics and tables, which help building teams identify potential operational improvements.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

TH Real Estate’s PV Installation at Whitefriars

17 December 2015

TH Real Estate's PV installation at Whitefriars Shopping Centre in Canterbury has provided 90,000 kWh of renewable energy each year and allowed for £40,100 in extra income and savings in 2014.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: Nuveen Real Estate

Canary Wharf Group – Lighting Upgrade to Retail Areas

17 November 2015

Canary Wharf Group has carried out a major lighting upgrade in retail areas at Cabot Place, Canada Place, Churchill Place and Jubilee Place, installing an energy efficient LED lighting system in the shopping malls and car parks. This upgrade follows a pilot project in 2014, which saw 1.4 km of LED strip lighting installed at Canada Place and monitored for a full year. Informed by the results of this pilot,

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: Canary Wharf Group

Hammerson and Costa Invest Collaboratively to Achieve Zero Carbon

16 September 2015

At Wrekin Retail Park in Telford, developer Hammerson and occupier Costa invested collaboratively to create a zero carbon Eco Pod, which opened in April 2015. The Eco Pod includes passive ventilation and high performance building materials that naturally manage temperatures, as well as photovoltaic panels that produce clean power for the building, offsetting a proportion of the energy used by the coffee making equipment.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Energy Centre at Spring Mews

12 June 2015

Thanks to a highly efficient, low-carbon energy centre at Spring Mews in Vauxhall, CLS Holding’s new mixed-use development substantially exceeded its planning consent target of 25% better carbon efficiency than Part L 2010 Building Regulations as well as minimising environmental impacts and offering low energy costs to occupiers.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Case Studies

Member: CLS Holdings