BREEAM

Granite Announces Acquisition of Three Prime Logistics Properties in the Netherlands

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
REIT, Building Systems, Residential Building & Real Estate, Commercial Building & Real Estate, Construction & Property, Articles, Building energy rating, Building engineering, Environmental design, Engineering, BREEAM, Construction, Environmental engineering, Real estate investment trust

The properties are 100% leased to three prominent European tenants for a weighted average lease term of approximately 11 years.

Key Points: 
  • The properties are 100% leased to three prominent European tenants for a weighted average lease term of approximately 11 years.
  • Several sustainability features have been incorporated in the design of the properties, and they are expected to receive a BREEAM Very Good certification at minimum.
  • Together with our earlier acquisition in Born, we have now transacted on well over 100 million in properties in the Netherlands alone in the past six months.
  • Granite is a Canadian-based REIT engaged in the acquisition, development, ownership and management of industrial, warehouse and logistics properties in North America and Europe.

BRE Global Launches BREEAM New Construction for the USA

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Monday, June 17, 2019
Building engineering, Articles, Engineering, Environmental design, Building energy rating, BREEAM, Construction, Environmental engineering, Building Research Establishment

The announcement is the result of a nearly year-long partnership to Americanize the BREEAM International New Construction standard and marks the latest development in BRE Global's effort to expand in the U.S. market.

Key Points: 
  • The announcement is the result of a nearly year-long partnership to Americanize the BREEAM International New Construction standard and marks the latest development in BRE Global's effort to expand in the U.S. market.
  • Shamir Ghumra, Director of BREEAM at BREGlobal said: "The adoption of BREEAM International by HOK marks another significant step forward for BREEAM.
  • This will give more built environment stakeholders even more access to BREEAM in the USA; building on our growing number of customers for BREEAM In-Use.
  • BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) was developed in 1990 by BRE Global, the world's leading multidisciplinary building science organization.

WPP Opens New Campus in Amsterdam

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Professional services, Banking, Finance, Communications, Advertising, Other Communications, WPP plc, BREEAM, Building energy rating, Construction, Environmental design, Environmental engineering, Engineering, Natural environment, Articles

WPP (NYSE:WPP) today marked the opening of its new Amsterdam campus as it continued the roll-out of its global co-location strategy.

Key Points: 
  • WPP (NYSE:WPP) today marked the opening of its new Amsterdam campus as it continued the roll-out of its global co-location strategy.
  • Each WPP campus is designed to provide world-class spaces that bring together its people and agencies into one location, encouraging greater collaboration and giving clients easier access to all of WPPs talent and expertise.
  • VBAT, an international WPP design studio based in Amsterdam, worked with the agencies housed in Amsteldok to name the campus and develop the co-locations new branding.
  • The new WPP campus has been developed with sustainability at its heart and is aiming for a BREEAM (the worlds leading authority in this area) rating of Very Good or higher.

A New Urban Shopping Centre in the Heart of a Growing Community

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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Retailing, Human behavior, Trade, Real estate, Citycon, BREEAM, Galleria, Shopping mall, Shopping, Kjellman

Mlndal Galleria is the first shopping centre in Western Sweden certified with the international standard of BREEAM Very Good.

Key Points: 
  • Mlndal Galleria is the first shopping centre in Western Sweden certified with the international standard of BREEAM Very Good.
  • Now the inhabitants get a greatly improved and wider range of offering in the long-awaited urban centre," says Martin Kjellman, Commercial Director at Citycon.
  • The transformation of Mlndal's city centre includes not only the new shopping centre, but also a whole neighbourhood that is renewed with new shopping, culture, jobs and housing.
  • "This investment of EUR 120 million in a new urban shopping centre in Mlndal, Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, is a testimony to Citycon's strategy to recycle and deploy capital to high quality irreplaceable assets in growing urban areas.

Säterinportti Business Campus Awarded With BREEAM In-use Certification

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Thursday, May 3, 2018
Construction, Building engineering, Building energy rating, Environmental design, Natural environment, Engineering, BREEAM, Environmental engineering, Building Research Establishment

Sterinportti is an office campus located in Espoo, offering modern and stylish office space for businesses, from few hundred square meters to entire houses.

Key Points: 
  • Sterinportti is an office campus located in Espoo, offering modern and stylish office space for businesses, from few hundred square meters to entire houses.
  • The business campus reached a significant milestone in pursuing towards better working environment as it was awarded the BREEAM In-Use environmental certification.
  • The Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is one of the most widely-used environmental assessment standards for commercial buildings.
  • Sterinportti was awarded the BREEAM certificate at the Very Good level.