Sustainability Solutions

Sustainable Buildings & Places

Design, build and operate real estate assets that are environmentally friendly and socially responsible.

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Create real estate assets that prioritise environmental sustainability and social responsibility at every stage. From site selection through construction and operation, our holistic approach ensures organisations seamlessly integrate sustainability into their real estate portfolio.

Our Services

Sustainability Site Assessment

Comprehensively understand the sustainability of your assets or entire portfolio. Assess the quality and condition of properties, building structures, façade systems and engineering services installations to measure performance against market best practices, stakeholder priorities, national and international energy legislation and sustainability objectives.

Focus Areas

  • Performance benchmarking
  • ESG due diligence
  • Climate risk
  • Location analyser
  • Sustainable site selection
  • Stakeholder priority analysis
  • Repositioning advice
  • Value impact analysis

Sustainability Certifications

Create sustainable buildings and certify their performance to set your assets apart in the market. Specializing in managing environmental risks, reducing carbon output and securing sustainability certification, we improve asset value while helping to create a healthier built environment.

Focus Areas

  • Quickscan & Gap Analysis
  • Certification programme management
  • Fitout guides
  • Programme of requirements
  • BREEAM
  • LEED
  • WELL
  • Fitwel
  • GPR
  • Energy labels (EPCs)
  • WiredScore
  • Subsidies management

Sustainable Building Design & Construction

Build sustainably with our expert team overseeing every aspect from integrating sustainable building principles to managing certification processes. We engage directly with vendors to minimize risks, reduce embodied carbon and drive efficiency, ensuring timely and cost-effective results.

Focus Areas

  • Strategic advisory
  • (re)Development feasibility studies
  • Development monitoring
  • Sustainable & low-carbon design
  • Embodied & whole life carbon assessment
  • Materials passports
  • Circular construction
  • Principal project delivery
  • Subsidies management
  • Marketing strategy
  • Programme of requirements
  • Fitout guides

Physical Climate Risk

Evaluate and quantify the climate risk associated with the properties in your portfolio. Our team can analyse each property for climate-related vulnerabilities and devise a tailored mitigation strategy to minimise the impact posed by climate change.

Focus Areas

  • Climate hazard screening
  • Physical climate risk assessment
  • EU Taxonomy alignment
  • DGBC Framework for Climate Adaptive Buildings
  • Value impact analysis
  • Adaptation & mitigation advice
  • Reporting

Green Lease Strategy

Achieve significant environmental and cost benefits by implementing a green lease strategy. Our team can assist you in drafting and negotiating green lease clauses, conducting sustainability assessments, and identifying opportunities for energy efficiency, waste reduction and water conservation. We provide comprehensive support to align landlord and tenant interests, ensuring long-term success and sustainability for your properties.

Focus Areas

  • Green leasing frameworks
  • Space selection strategy
  • Cross-party cooperation
  • Negotiation support
  • Data sharing strategies
  • Fitout guides
  • Green Lease Leaders certification

Social Value and Placemaking

Support local communities by integrating their needs into the operation and management of your buildings. Out team helps you to prioritise DE&I and employee well-being, fostering vibrant and inclusive spaces. We also help facilitate charity and volunteering initiatives, ensuring your assets positively impact the wider society.

Focus Areas

  • Social impact assessment
  • Baseline assessment
  • Social value strategy
  • Measurement & reporting

CBRE Sustainability Solutions

Our Approach

Simplify complexity, accelerate sustainability. No matter where you are on your sustainability journey, we have the strategy to help you achieve your goals. Our solutions are strategic, optimised and scalable – all supported by data-driven insights.

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Strategic Blueprint
Build a strategy to meet goals, regulations and stakeholder expectations worldwide
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Resource Optimisation
Enhance efficiency throughout your organisation to reduce costs and your environmental footprint
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Decarbonisation at Scale
Rapidly deploy solutions to decarbonise portfolios and value chains
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Sustainability Insights
Enable real-time decision making through comprehensive data, analytics and reporting

Why Choose CBRE?

  • Experts in real estate

    We specialise in collaborating with developers, investors, landlords and occupiers to achieve sustainability goals. Our expertise lies in crafting solutions that benefit all stakeholders, meet regulations and enhance the sustainability of the built environment.

  • Maximise efficiency

    Our approach maximises efficiency by developing high level action plans and deploying capable teams to implement changes on-the-ground. This is strategic thinking driven by practical knowledge and application.

  • Scalable solutions

    With our global reach and in-depth knowledge of local regulations, we provide cross-border solutions. Our network links you with experts worldwide from HVAC engineers, building surveyors to renewable energy specialists - we have the people to help you achieve your sustainability objectives.