The real estate industry in the UK, hindered by woefully limited data, continues to discuss sustainability from the side lines. For instance of the 1204 properties in the Investment Property Databank’s UK Commercial Office Sustainability Index sample, only 61 had sufficient data to be considered sustainable (based on 21 questions only). Without a significant data set with which to justify investment in sustainability, the market has, by and large, remained circumspect....
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Blog posts for the Sustainable Real Estate category are listed below.
DNV’s Acquisition Of Kema Adds Fuel To Energy Services Fire
A recent development in the global energy services market saw testing and certification firm DNV acquire a controlling 74.3% stake in energy consultancy Kema to form DNV Kema Energy & Sustainability. The firm gained regulatory approval to operate on 29 February 2012 and is headquartered in Arnhem, the Netherlands. With 500 employees from DNV and 1,800 from Kema, across 30 countries, the new company increases DNV’s former energy and sustainability employee headcount by 460%....
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- Smart Grid,
- Energy Management,
- Sustainable Real Estate
SCIenergy Acquires Transcend To Provide Clients With Fully Funded Sustainable Retrofit Services
The energy efficiency market consistently reports that the greatest barriers to enabling retrofits of the existing built stock are the split incentive between landlord and tenant, the inability to make a business case because of flawed data and financing. SCIenergy is now tackling two of these, continuing the trend for acquisitions of specialist energy management assets. SCIenergy, the energy management software and services firm, announced on March 13th 2012 the acquisition of retrofit financing specialist Transcend Equity for an undisclosed sum. Transcend Equity’s 7 employees have joined the SCIenergy team where post integration Transcend founder Stephen Gossett Jr. will lead SCIenergy’s new financing team....
