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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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The Crown Estate's 7 Air Street Wins Sustainable Building of the Year Energy & Environment Award

27 May 2016

Nestled in the heart of one of London’s busiest shopping districts, The Crown Estate’s 7 Air Street is the first Grade 2-listed building ever to achieve the notorious BREEAM 2011 Outstanding rating and is the highest-scoring office scheme against current BREEAM standards.

Topic: Retrofit & Refurbishment

Type: News

Member: The Crown Estate

Savills Launches Food Waste Digesters at Princesshay

17 February 2016

At Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter, managing agent Savills and asset manager The Crown Estate have installed three food waste digesters, significantly increasing recycling, cutting disposal costs for occupiers and reducing environmental impacts. Following the success of this initiative, Savills is considering food waste digester opportunities for other sites in England.

Topic: Waste

Type: Case Studies

Member: The Crown Estate

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

Recruit London

12 October 2015

The Crown Estate, in partnership with Westminster City Council and Cross River Partnership, hosts the Recruit London scheme. Since 2009, this innovative community employment and training initiative has been helping Westminster jobseekers into sustainable employment and supporting West End businesses with free recruitment services. Recruit London’s Workplace Coordinators work with employers and referral agencies to match local jobseekers to vacancies, supporting candidates throughout and helping them access training.

Topic: Occupier Engagement

Type: Case Studies

Member: The Crown Estate

Ecological Master Plan in London

07 September 2015

As part of The Crown Estate’s ecological master plan for its holdings in Regent Street and St James’s, the organisation is creating a green corridor linking Regent's Park and St James's Park. Plans include green roofs, brown roofs, green walls, pocket habitats, community gardens, street trees, window boxes and planters, as well as bird boxes, bat boxes and bee hives. Through its estate-wide approach, The Crown Estate will create valuable habitats for wildlife and improve the experience for people living, working and visiting the area.

Topic: Biodiversity

Type: Case Studies

Member: The Crown Estate

London property owners join forces to launch Wild West End ecology initiative

03 July 2015

BBP Members The Crown Estate, Grosvenor and Shaftesbury announce a unique collaboration to promote green infrastructure in the capital, through an ecology project entitled 'Wild West End.'

Topic: Biodiversity

Type: News

Member: The Crown Estate