News

Big Green Leaf wins National Green Apple for Environmental Best Practice

17 November 2015

The Crown Estate's 'Underneath the Big Green Leaf' campaign has won a 2015 National Green Apple Champion Award for Environmental Best Practice in Estate Management.

Topic: Occupier Engagement

Type: News

Member: The Crown Estate

British Land is Celebrating Winning ‘Highly Commended’ in the Impact on Sustainability Category at the BIFM Awards This Year

17 November 2015

British Land and Broadgate Estates go above and beyond to get tenant buy-in in their energy reduction initiative. This helped British Land win ‘highly commended’ in the Impact on Sustainability category at the BIFM Awards this year.

Topic: Property Management

Type: News

Member: British Land

Aberdeen Asset Management Completes Large Solar PV Installation for Biffa Waste Services

12 November 2015

The installation, comprising c.1,000 Solar Panels will provide c. 225,000 killowat hours (kWh) to Biffa Waste Services saving c.120 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: News

Member: abrdn

Big Welcome to Our New Member Low Carbon Workplace!

12 November 2015

The BBP is very proud to announce that on 12 November Low Carbon Workplace officially became the BBP’s 27th member! The Low Carbon Workplace is a property development partnership between sustainability experts the Carbon Trust, fund manager Columbia Threadneedle Investments and property developer Stanhope.

Type: News

Industry Initiative to Look at Australia for Solution to Performance Gap

29 October 2015

Design for performance feasibility study launched to develop a scheme to guarantee the in-use energy performance of new offices.

Topic: Market Transformation

Type: News

Sustainability in Buildings Makes for a Better Investment

23 October 2015

A panel debate on sustainability in the property industry was organised by Property Week and Capita Real Estate think tank. Sarah Ratcliffe, BBP Programme Director, was on the panel.

Type: News

Responsible Capitalism Survey: Many Institutional Investors Believe ESG is Not Important When Investing in Direct Property

19 October 2015

Responsible Capitalism and Sustainability reveals that of 109 UK and European institutional investors surveyed, 48% of respondents believe ESG factors are not important when assessing direct property investments. Only 19% consider them vitally important.

Topic: Investment

Type: News

Member: Federated Hermes

Aviva, British Land and Hammerson in Top 15 of Carbon Reporting Performance of the FTSE 100

24 September 2015

Carbon Clear has published their fifth yearly report on the carbon reporting performance of the top 100 companies in the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE 100). Three BBP members figure in the ranking.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: News