ESG & Sustainability Solutions

Sustainable Buildings & Places

Design, build and operate real estate assets that are environmentally friendly and socially responsible.

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Create real estate assets that prioritise environmental sustainability and social responsibility at every stage. From site selection through construction and operation, our holistic approach ensures organizations seamlessly integrate sustainability into their real estate portfolio.

Our Services

Sustainability Site Assessment

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the ESG credentials of your asset or entire portfolio. Evaluate the performance and condition of buildings or land to ensure compliance with national or international legislation and standards, fulfill disclosure requirements, and align with sustainability strategy objectives.

Focus Areas

  • Environmental and physical climate risk
  • Materiality assessments
  • Location analyser
  • Sustainability disclosure requirements

Green, Energy & Wellbeing Certifications

Create sustainable buildings and certify their performance to set your assets apart in the market. Specializing in managing environmental risks, reducing carbon output and securing sustainability certification, we improve asset value while helping to create a healthier built environment.​

Focus Areas

  • LEED
  • WELL​
  • GRESB​
  • HK BEAM Plus​
  • Fitwel
  • TRUE Zero Waste
  • Wiredscore​
  • Smartscore

Sustainable Building Design & Construction​​

Build sustainably with our expert team overseeing every aspect from integrating sustainable building principles to managing certification processes. We engage directly with vendors to minimize risks, reduce embodied carbon and drive efficiency, ensuring timely and cost-effective results.​

Focus Areas

  • Principal Project Delivery
  • Retrofit accelerator
  • Sustainable design
  • EV charging infrastructure
  • Refurbishment/upgrade
  • Embodied carbon benchmarking

Physical Climate Risk

Evaluate and quantify the climate risk associated with the properties in your portfolio. Our team can assess assets for exposure to current and future climate risks, devising tailored adaptation strategies to minimise the impacts associated with a changing climate and achieve resilience across your portfolio.

Focus Areas

  • Physical climate risk assessment
  • Financial impact modeling​
  • Regulatory compliance alignment​
  • Reporting

Green Lease Strategy

Achieve significant environmental and cost benefits by implementing a green lease strategy. Our team can assist you in drafting and negotiating green lease clauses, conducting sustainability assessments, and identifying opportunities for energy efficiency, waste reduction and water conservation. We provide comprehensive support to align landlord and tenant interests, ensuring long-term success and sustainability for your properties.

Focus Areas

  • Cross-party cooperation
  • Dilapidations
  • Building certifications
  • Data sharing & metering
  • Alterations & Maintenance
  • Green lease leaders certification

CBRE Sustainability Solutions

Our Approach

Simplify complexity, accelerate sustainability. No matter where you are on your sustainability journey, we have the strategy to help you achieve your goals. Our solutions are strategic, optimised and scalable – all supported by data-driven insights.

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Strategic Blueprint
Build a strategy to meet goals, regulations and stakeholder expectations worldwide
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Resource Optimisation
Enhance efficiency throughout your organisation to reduce costs and your environmental footprint
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Decarbonisation at Scale
Rapidly deploy solutions to decarbonise portfolios and value chains
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Sustainability Insights
Enable real-time decision making through comprehensive data, analytics and reporting

Why Choose CBRE?

  • Experts in real estate

    We specialise in collaborating with developers, investors, landlords and occupiers to achieve sustainability goals. Our expertise lies in crafting solutions that benefit all stakeholders, meet regulations and enhance the sustainability of the built environment.

  • Maximise efficiency

    Our approach maximises efficiency by developing high level action plans and deploying capable teams to implement changes on-the-ground. This is strategic thinking driven by practical knowledge and application.

  • Scalable solutions

    With our global reach and in-depth knowledge of local regulations, we provide cross-border solutions. Our network links you with experts worldwide from HVAC engineers, building surveyors to renewable energy specialists - we have the people to help you achieve your sustainability objectives.