Turn SFDR to your advantage for sustainable and investible real estate

New regulations are excellent opportunities to prove transparency and compliance to investors interested in sustainable assets. We ask sustainability consultants Kris Kolenc and Karolina Krzystek-De Ranter how financial market participants can turn SFDR into a competitive advantage to secure a strong position in sustainable finance. Hi Kris, what is the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation…

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Sustainability software helps commercial real estate save energy – here’s how 

Investing in energy-saving sustainability software helps combat your surging energy costs and reduce your carbon footprint. Energy data insight, visual dashboards, and strategic action plans interact to optimise your energy consumption, drive cost savings, and deliver a clear roadmap for net zero compliance and resilient assets.  What is sustainability software?  Sustainability software reveals a detailed…

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The secret to future-proofing your portfolio. How data can make your buildings more productive, profitable and resilient to change.

Notes from the 2017 GRESB-Siemens Spring Conference. Some colleagues and I attended a fascinating event a few days ago organised by the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) and Siemens which focused on climate change, the contributions real estate makes to emissions, and our ability to make significant changes by shifting the paradigm. One of…

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Big Data – Adding Value to our Clients’ Assets

Big Data in Our Daily Lives A few weeks ago, whilst on the train, I was browsing my emails when a new, unfamiliar email, landed in my inbox talking about Big Data. Opening it, I was told I had earned 30 leaves in the past month. Apparently, I was doing quite well. People in my…

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Why Firms Choose EVORA For Expert GRESB Support

The Rising Interest in GRESB GRESB (Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark) is proving to be the survey of choice to benchmark real estate portfolio performance, but it is also one of the most challenging to complete. Interest in GRESB has continued to increase since it was founded in 2009, as demonstrated by the Google Trends…

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SIERA Sustainability Software: By Numbers [An Infographic]

Leading Sustainability Software for the Real Estate World SIERA, our proprietary sustainability management software, has, until recently, been an inadvertently well-kept secret. As a result, “This is great, why haven’t I seen it before?” is one of the most common questions we are asked when demoing the software to our commercial real estate prospects. Well, no…

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The Power of Data Visualisation in Profiling MEES Risks and Opportunities

My colleague Ed Gabbitas recently wrote a blog post titled ‘Why MEES is Changing Behaviour Two Years Ahead of the Compliance Date’. In that post, Ed highlighted some of the challenges around the accuracy and variable quality of some EPCs as well as some broader implications for the sector. In light of the potential adverse impact…

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SIERA: A Case Study in Sustainable Project Development

Software development Rule No. 1: “As long as you have users, your product will never be finished!” When we began the SIERA project we knew that our journey would be one of continual improvement and continual change; our product would have to evolve to meet the demands of our clients, global reporting standards, a constantly…

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SIERA Features and Benefits [Infographic]

With its many advanced capabilities, it’s not a straightforward task to summarise the SIERA features and benefits to just five apiece… But we’ve tried anyway! SIERA (Sustainability Intelligence Environmental Reporting & Analysis) is our proprietary sustainability management software that has been developed specifically for the commercial real estate investment market. It is already managing billions of…

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