Bringing Real Estate Portfolios on a Climate-Friendly Track
Recommendations for Profitable Procurement Practices and Innovative Services for Energy Optimization and Modernisation of Existing Buildings
At a glance
- Project leader : Marcel Janser
- Deputy of project leader : Prof. Markus Hubbuch
- Project team : Mirjam Pfenninger, Pascal Vecsei
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes (Climate-KIC Switzerland)
Description
With the entry into force of the Paris Climate Convention of the
United Nations on 4 November 2016, the coun-tries of the world have
set themselves the ambitious goal of limiting global warming to
well below 2 degrees Celsius, or better still below 1.5 degrees
Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels. If the states take
this agree-ment seriously, there will be no way around
comprehensive energy optimization and modernization of existing
buildings in the coming years. On the one hand, such a development
puts building owners under pressure to bring their real estate
portfolios onto a corresponding lowering path as efficiently as
possible. On the other hand, providers of climate-relevant real
estate services will also have to further develop their offerings
if they want to survive in the market. The guideline developed in
this project is intended to support the relevant stakeholders
(portfolio, asset, facility, sustainability, construction project
managers, facility service providers, property managers, planners,
contrac-tors, energy service companies, etc.) in these changes. The
recommendations are aimed at profitable procurement practices for
building owners and attractive value propositions from real estate
service providers. All content is based on research literature and
a large-scale empirical study (46 interviews and documents
analysis).
The guide contains recommendations on the following aspects:
Strategy of Building Owner Organisations
- Sustainability Strategy
- Holistic economic efficiency assessments
- Rethinking Procurement Practices
Strategy of Service Provider Organisations
- Developping business models actively and with appropriate
methods
- Becoming partners for achieving strategically important
outcomes
- Proving economic viability of services
Technical Building Operation
- Capturing the current condition of the building(s): digital data
management, benchmarks, monitoring systems
- Optimisation of operation: continuous commissioning, energy
performance and energy supply contracting 2.0, remote monitoring
and control / needs-based and predictive maintenance, automatised
energy optimisation
Modernisation:
- Multi-year planning and variant studies
- Integrated offers and collaborations models
- Systemactic commissioning