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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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Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations Update

01 December 2016

The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 implement the requirements in the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) with respect to the supply of distributed heat, cooling, hot water and cold water and came into force on 18 December 2014. The EED promotes energy efficiency in the EU to achieve the Commission’s 2020 20% headline target on energy efficiency. It lays down rules to overcome market failures that impede efficiency in the supply and use of energy.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Publications

REEB Pushes the Power Button with EnergyDeck

25 April 2016

The BBP is delighted to announce the appointment of EnergyDeck as its new platform provider for the REEB. REEB is a publicly available, asset specific, operational benchmark of environmental performance derived from data from over 1,000 commercial properties, the biggest dataset of its kind in the UK.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: News

The Better Buildings Partnership REEBooted

25 April 2016

The BBP has appointed EnergyDeck as its new supplier for REEB. Benjamin Kott, CEO of EnergyDeck, talks about the objectives and history of REEB, and why this appointment is good news for the industry as a whole.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Blogs

intu Properties plc. Publishes 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report

20 April 2016

intu's 2015 corporate responsibility report considers the material social and environmental issues faced by their business and evaluates the outcomes and achievements across their three key pillars.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: News

Why Targets Matter, and Why Sticking to Them is Even More Important

15 January 2016

Helen Drury from Intu shares her thoughts on the importance of doing what you committed to in order to maintain trust with customers and wider stakeholders.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Blogs

GRESB 2015 Consultation Response

30 November 2015

Our consultation response to the 2015 GRESB Survey.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Publications

Can your Business Identify the Risks?

12 November 2015

“Sustainability is about the future” proclaimed one speaker at yesterday’s Corporate Reporting and Communications conference.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Blogs

ESG as a Crystal Ball

20 October 2015

This morning I attended an event hosted by MSCI titled Applied ESG Research: Making Capital Decisions Using ESG Research and Data. The panel included an analyst, actuary, asset manager, journalist and representatives from MSCI and the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). Here are the key points I took from the two hour conversation on how environmental, social and governance factors are used in investment decision making.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Blogs