Establishing long-term ESG related objectives by different companies is essential to enable the transformation that the industry needs in order to achieve a sustainable future for all.
Modern society is managed and influenced by targets. Setting targets, it seems, is an innate human characteristic, a product of our curiosity and sense of adventure perhaps and certainly a tool for driving progress.
Climate Assessment of Real Estate and Infrastructure Investments: Dutch Institutional Investors
Climate change is increasingly becoming a risk to people and to assets. It is up to investors how they deal with these risks in the near and long term future. De-carbonisation of the portfolio and divestments of real-estate in flood prone areas are effective tools to decrease risks in the short term.
4 Steps to Setting (and Achieving) Long-term Climate Targets
Although a sizeable proportion of the world’s companies have voiced their support and developed short-term responses to the Paris Agreement, an analysis shows that we all need to move faster.
WELL or Fitwel? Getting to Know Healthy Building Certification Systems
The green building certification movement began with a focus on environmental sustainability. Addressing core environmental issues related to energy, water, and waste was the foundation for early green building rating systems like LEED, a program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Green Building – A Tool to Improve Employees’ Health and Productivity
People spend around 90,000 hours at the workplace on average over their lifetime. A couple of researches have shown that the design of a workplace has a significant impact on the physical and mental health, well-being and productivity of its users.
The expectation of an easy, predictable, problem-free existence has never occurred in the lives of any of us It turns out that stress is the new manager in companies. Some believe that it is up to us to manage our own well-being, but end up seeing how often the situation gets out of hand by […]
Shifting the Boundaries of Workplace Design and Experience
As wellness rises up the corporate agenda, we are fast realizing there is real opportunity to add value to real estate assets, enhance human health, achieve excellence in general building operations and, from a business perspective, generate savings in employee costs.
It may not be feasible for every building to have its own pool or gym, but all Residential owners should be thinking critically about what health and well-being interventions could benefit their properties. And for owners who have already taken steps to improve their building’s energy performance, health and well-being can be approached with a similar process.
