Green building procurement
and investment:
An EU approach to
sustainability data
Brussels,
20 November 2014
Environment
Programme
overview
What data on environmental performance of buildings are useful for the market?
What is the impact of green building investments?
How can public procurement efficiently support the green building market?
How could European initiatives be supportive to achieve market transformation?
Moderator: James Drinkwater, World Green Building Council
09:15 - 09:45 Registration
09:45 - 09:55 Welcome and opening
Kestutis Sadauskas, Director, Green Economy Directorate,
DG Environment, European Commission
09:55 - 10:20 Resource efficiency opportunities in the building sector Josefina Lindblom, Eco-Innovation & Circular Economy Unit, DG Environment,
European Commission
Manfred Fuchs, Sustainable Industrial Policy and Construction, DG Enterprise and Industry,
European Commission
10:20 - 10:35 The cutting edge of sustainable property investment Piet Eichholtz, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Maastricht University,
The Netherlands
10:35 - 11:15 Practical examples from the demand-side Miles Keeping, Head of Responsible Property Investment, Deloitte Real Estate, United Kingdom Anna Denell, Head of CSR, Vasakronan, Sweden
Frank Hovorka, Head of real estate sustainable policy, Caisse des Dépôts, France
11:15 - 11:35 Venue:
Coffee/tea break
Belgian Building Research Institute
Boulevard Poincaré/Poincarélaan 79
1060 Bruxelles/Brussel
BELGIUM
11:35 - 11:50 Feedback and discussion of practical examples 11:50 - 13:15
Parallel brainstorming sessions
Moderators: Zsolt Toth (RICS, Belgium), Anna Denell (Vasakronan, Sweden) and
James Drinkwater (World Green Building Council)
1. How will data collection and data flow between actors work under the
EU framework of core indicators?
2. How can the EU framework help us make the business case for sustainable buildings?
3. What tools will encourage actors to make use of the framework and drive take-up?
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00 Report from brainstorming sessions 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee/tea break
15:15 - 16:15 Panel discussion: The way forward
Dirk Mölter, Sustainability and Technical Director, Goodman Continental Europe, Germany
Derk Welling, Head of Corporate Responsibility, REDEVCO, The Netherlands
Clemens Kanonier, Department of Building Construction and Building Management,
State government of Vorarlberg, Austria
Anna Denell, Head of CSR, Vasakronan, Sweden
16:15 - 16:30 Wrap-up and closing remarks
James Drinkwater, World Green Building Council
This important conference gathers the diverse
demand side with its wide spectra of stakeholders,
from public procurers, private and public property
owners, banks, investors and insurers to estate
agencies and occupants in order to identify actions
subsequent to the recently adopted Communication
on Resource Efficiency Opportunities in the Building
Sector (COM (2014) 445).
The Communication proposes a process to develop a
framework with a limited set of core indicators for
the assessment of the environmental performance
of buildings, going beyond the current focus on
energy efficiency.
This conference provides a first opportunity for the
European Commission to learn more about what
aspects of such a framework would be needed
to make it attractive to the stakeholders on the
demand side.
More information:
Contact information:
European Commission
Directorate-General for the Environment
B - 1049 Brussels
Belgium
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en.htm
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