Our Resources

The Better Buildings Partnership regularly publishes blog pieces, news articles, toolkits and case studies that highlight the latest sustainability developments in the UK commercial real estate industry. The resources can be filtered hereunder by topic, type and member.

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How smart buildings will win the race to net zero

19 April 2021

Intelligent building systems that create smart buildings give commercial property an opportunity to become greener, and more cost-efficient.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Blogs

Member: Workman

Why Earth Hour could be more than just a symbolic gesture as we head towards net zero

25 March 2021

Chris Cummings from Savills talks about how Earth Hour provides us with a chance to look ahead to a time beyond the current drive by businesses to achieve net zero emissions.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Blogs

Member: Savills

Waste management makes business sense. Here’s why

08 March 2021

Stefani Kopach from the Sustainability team at MAPP, explains why it is important for MAPP to monitor the collection, transportation, processing and disposal of waste for all managed asset portfolios.

Topic: Waste

Type: Blogs

Member: MAPP

Why real estate is starting to go electric

19 February 2021

Efforts to power buildings entirely by electricity are starting to take shape amid a concerted push in the real estate industry to ramp up its green credentials. Read JLL's blog on why the real estate sector is starting to go electric.

Topic: Market Transformation

Type: Blogs

Member: JLL

Working Groups & Roundtables

03 February 2021

A key activity of the Managing Agents Partnership is to hold regular Working Groups and Roundtables. Click here to see the variety of topics we have covered.

Topic: Market Transformation

Type: Projects

Real Estate Environmental Benchmark

03 February 2021

The Real Estate Environmental Benchmark (REEB) is a publicly available operational benchmark of environmental performance for commercial property in the UK. It is one of the only benchmarks based on the performance of buildings ‘in-use’.

Topic: Measurement & Reporting

Type: Projects

Core Provisions

03 February 2021

Managing agents have a critical role to play in improving the sustainability performance of the buildings they manage. They are an intrinsic part of the day-to-day management of commercial property and often at the ‘coal face’ of addressing sustainability in the built environment. To address this, in September 2016, members of the Managing Agents Partnership launched Integrating Sustainability into Property Management: Core Provisions, a framework that sets out the core activities which should be undertaken by any managing agent as part of their standard property management offering to clients.

Topic: Property Management

Type: Projects

Energy Performance Certificates: a guide for landlords and tenants

03 February 2021

Alex Lee, Head of Department, Residential Lettings at Savills provides a guide to Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for Landlords and Tenants.

Topic: Energy/Carbon

Type: Blogs

Member: Savills