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The Better Buildings Partnership regularly publishes blog pieces, news articles, toolkits and case studies that highlight the latest sustainability developments in the UK commercial real estate industry. The resources can be filtered hereunder by topic, type and member.

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Legal & General Outperforms Industry Targets on Lifecycle Carbon at North Quay House

16 February 2022

North Quay House in Bristol is the latest refurbishment by Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) Real Assets to undergo a detailed lifecycle carbon assessment. This revealed that the project is on track to achieve embodied emissions well below industry targets, evidencing the carbon benefit of retaining and renewing existing structures rather than building new. Planned upgrades to the building fabric and systems will also substantially reduce operational emissions, accelerating progress to net zero carbon.

Topic: Retrofit & Refurbishment

Type: Case Studies

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

Legal & General Continues Fight Against Climate Change as it Publishes Strategy to Deliver Net Zero Across its Real Estate Portfolio

25 January 2021

Avoiding climate catastrophe and its irreversible changes to the earth’s climate systems is the greatest global priority. Legal & General sees the task of addressing climate change as a key growth driver, and the multi-billion pound investment that it requires over the coming decades as an opportunity not a cost

Topic: Net Zero

Type: News

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

Legal & General Appoints Demand Logic as Buildings Systems Partner to Cut Carbon

02 March 2020

Since June last year Demand Logic, working with LGIM and its partners has implemented 300 actions based on the software’s findings, resulting in 1,547,826 KwH (£180,000 per year and a 400-tonne carbon saving) of potential energy avoidance.

Type: News

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

How Upskilling Teams Can Halve Energy Costs – 210 High Holborn

16 July 2018

Legal & General IM Real Assets set a target for managing agents to ensure all buildings are managed to best practice energy benchmarks under REEB...

Topic: Property Management

Type: Case Studies

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

Debbie Hobbs: Why property firms need more engineers

15 September 2017

For property firms to benefit from ethical finance, L&G’s Debbie Hobbs says they must reverse the trend for de-skilling and employ more engineers to ensure buildings perform...

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Blogs

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

BREEAM Excellent for Legal & General's Refurbishment of 6 Agar Street

01 January 2013

Legal & General Real Asset's major refurbishment project at 6 Agar Street achieved a BREEAM Excellent sustainability rating. Sustainability features are set to reduce absolute CO2 emissions by 60% compared o the existing building and water use by 39% per person.

Topic: Retrofit & Refurbishment

Type: Case Studies

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

Legal & General Achieve First Ever BREEAM UK Refurbishment and Fit-Out Certification

27 April 2015

Legal & General Property’s building in Bristol has become the first building to be certificated under the BREEAM UK Refurbishment and Fit-Out scheme, the latest of the BREEAM standards for rating the sustainability of building projects.

Topic: Retrofit & Refurbishment

Type: News

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets

Legal & General and Dutch Pension Fund PGGM Partnership Set To Pioneer ESG Advances

28 January 2015

Legal & General and Dutch pension fund manager, PGGM, have launched a London Office joint venture partnership and have already successfully completed their first £67 million investment – 72 Broadwick Street in Soho. The joint venture initially has an allocation of circa £375 million to invest.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: News

Member: Legal & General IM Real Assets