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The Sustainable City Awards recognise and reward UK organisations, from multinational businesses to small charities, and promote outstanding achievements and innovation across all aspects of sustainability.
The Sustainable Finance category recognizes and rewards innovation and best practice in all areas of sustainable investment and finance that support sustainable economic development, enhance quality of life and safeguard the environment.
Jones Lang LaSalle is committed to helping our clients make sustainable property investment choices and we are therefore proud to accept this award. Read more
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| | | Building magazine and the UK Green Building Council collaborated to hold the 'Making Sustainable Development Happen' Conference on 24th November, 2009. Senior decision-makers from all parts of the property industry gathered to engage with politicians, academics, the media and other sector leaders. Following the conference, the Sustainability Awards were held to recognise and reward outstanding sustainability performance by real estate companies. Jones Lang LaSalle is delighted to have been highly commended in the category of Sustainable Consultant. This demonstrates our commitment to create innovative sustainability services for our clients and our ongoing achievement in improving our internal sustainable processes. Read new release. |
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Upstream Sustainability Services has been selected by the Better Building Partnership (BBP) to undertake data collection and analysis of building energy performance on behalf of its members. The data collection process fed into their first BBP awards. Click here for more detail
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| | | Upstream Sustainability Services recently collaborated with The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project . Upstream Sustainability Services were invited to apply leading edge sustainability thinking by creating a worked example to demonstrate how the concept of ‘Connected Reporting’, developed by the Project, could be applied to the property investment sector.
Connected Reporting aims to make a clear connection between business strategy and sustainability whilst improving the relevance of information provided to investors by highlighting the connection between financial and sustainability performance. Upstream Sustainability Services developed an example of how an entity, representative of the property investment sector, might report, incorporating financial performance metrics such as the value of investment in energy efficiency initiatives and the monetary impact of extreme weather such as flooding and storm damage.
A round-table event was held at Clarence House in October with a number of key representatives from the industry to discuss the worked example, co-facilitated by Upstream Lead Director Julie Hirigoyen. Following positive reaction from those present, the worked example is currently being finalised and a copy will be made available on the Jones Lang LaSalle website once published. |
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Working with a collaborating centre of the United Nations, Upstream Sustainability Services has secured a two year mandate to support the Global Reporting Initiative in producing detailed guidelines to supplement the multi-sector G3 guidelines. The G3 Guidelines represent a global sustainability reporting framework first published in 1999 (and revised in 2006) to assist companies and governments in disclosing their economic, environmental, and social performance on issues such as climate change and supply chain management. Katherine Miles Sector Supplement Manager at GRI said: “Building on its experience of advising many of the UK and Europe’s leading property companies in their sustainability reporting efforts, including how to comply with generic GRI guidelines, Upstream will bring significant expertise to the table.”
Matthew Tippett, Director at Upstream Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle added: “With the built environment contributing around 30-40% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, as well as 30-40% of solid waste generation from construction and occupation, the imperative to develop globally applicable guidelines to support the sector in reporting its impacts – and ultimately drive improved performance through targeted reduction programmes – has never been more pressing.”
In collaboration with the GRI and a Working Group of sustainability reporters and industry experts including Hermes (with the British Property Federation), Lend Lease, ProLogis, Oxford Properties, Arup, Landcom and Citycon, Upstream’s role will be to build consensus amongst a geographically diverse group of construction and real estate stakeholders to deliver guidelines which are tailored to the needs of the sector.
The Construction and Real Estate Sector Supplement (CRESS) will invite public comment twice throughout the two year project. Dates of these public comment periods will be announced in due course.
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| | | Hammerson, an Upstream Sustainability Services' core client, has also been building up a treasure chest of sustainability awards in 2009. Last week, it received three Estate Gazette Green Awards: Green Property Company of the Year, the Retail/ Leisure Development of the Year and the Overall Green Development of the Year for the Cabot Circus development in Bristol. This is in addition to its position as the highest property company in The Sunday Times Best Green Companies Award and the highest property company in the FTSE 350 within the Carbon Disclosure Project, a global database of carbon disclosure sponsored by equity investors with $57 trillion assets under management. These awards recognise Hammerson's long-standing commitment to sustainability and the work that has been carried out over the past 10 years with our support as their strategic advisor.
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Upstream Sustainability Services is delighted that The Crown Estate has won this year’s Building Public Trust awards for its 2009 Sustainability Report. Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the award won was in the public sector category for 'Recognition for Excellence in Reporting in the Public Sector’. Upstream Sustainability Services worked with The Crown Estate to develop the content and design for the report and also collected, calculated and analysed its key performance indicators, which came in for particular praise from the judges, who commented: ‘very clear use and monitoring of key performance indicators, with reporting of The Crown Estate’s sustainability strategy and impacts linked clearly to its divisions and operational functions. Solid environmental reporting presented in an accessible and visually striking way.’ The report also included a thought piece on reporting challenges that are specific to the real estate sector in the hopes of contributing to the wider debate on best practice in reporting.
John Lelliott, Director of Finance at The Crown Estate, commenting on the award, said: “It is an undoubted privilege to win this award, especially against such other notable entrants. Our sustainability report was the result of a team effort, including the invaluable input from our partners Upstream Sustainability Services, and I congratulate everyone who contributed.”
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Jones Lang LaSalle’s Project and Development Services (P&DS) team has scooped the Best Sustainable Design Award in the Building Better Healthcare Awards for its recent project at Winthrop Hall in Staplehurst, Kent. Read news release.
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Acting on behalf of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Jones Lang LaSalle has successfully completed the refurbishment of 7 New Square, Bedfont Lakes Business Park, Feltham, providing integrated Project Management, Architectural and CDM Co-ordinator services.
Sustainability was a key client objective and a number of energy efficient design solutions were incorporated following a full feasibility assessment. These resulted in an estimated 15% reduction in energy consumption. The project also targeted and achieved a BREEAM rating of “Very Good”.
The team worked closely with our Investor Property Management and National Office Agency teams. This combined approach and the successful delivery of Building 7 led to the team being instructed to refurbish an additional 27,000 sq ft of office space on the Business Park in support of a new tenancy agreement.
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Upstream Directors Top Building Magazine's Green Guru’s Honors List Two directors of Jones Lang LaSalle's Sustainability Services group, Upstream, have topped Building magazine’s Green Guru’s list. Sarah Ratcliffe and Julie Hirigoyen scooped the award for their influence and impact on the green building movement in the UK. Read news release.
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Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL), the leading integrated financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate, has been selected as a winner of the first annual Sustainable Cities award, sponsored jointly by Financial Times and the Urban Land Institute. Read news release.
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EGTV: Chris Hiatt, Stephanie McMahon and Matthew Tippet discuss the preparedness of the property sector for the impending building energy rating certificates. View video
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