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A model for sustainable corporate real estate portfolio management
Corporate Real Estate Journal,
3
(1),
10-23
(2013)
Abstract
These days, corporations commit to sustainable development with increasing frequency. Besides idealistic motives, the movement is strengthened by the growing awareness that sustainability aspects contribute to corporate opportunities and thus competitive advantages of private and public companies. In order to remain competitive, companies therefore need to focus on sustainability too. In reaction to this, corporations that do not just want to do ‘green washing’ launch initiatives, recruit new employees as experts for sustainability, and implement working groups in order to drive forward sustainability in their business. Recent developments in the field of sustainability have also forced corporate real estate management (CREM) into improving the sustainability of their real estate portfolio. This paper gives an overview of how the portfolio management of large, non-property companies can be supplemented by sustainability considerations and makes a proposal for a portfolio management approach.
Keywords: sustainability; corporate real estate management; portfolio management
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Author's Biography
Daniela Schneider is Senior Manager for Real Estate Sustainability in BASF’s Group Real Estate and Facility Management. She has spent her professional career advising on sustainable portfolio management and design of corporate real estate. Previously, she worked as a research associate in the Department of Facility Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research interests focused on sustainable healthcare, retail and commercial buildings. She is one of the authors of a sustainability manual for shopping centers that was published by ECE. In cooperation with BASF she developed a sustainable portfolio management approach for corporations. Daniela Schneider is a DGNB auditor and leader of the DGNB working group ‘Industrial Locations’.
