If you're involved in the real estate industry, you may have heard the term ESG being thrown around a lot lately. ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance. It refers to the non-financial factors affecting a company's performance and reputation. In recent years, it went from a fancy buzzword [...]
What is the Living Building Challenge? The Living Building Challenge is a visionary program that sets the highest sustainable design and construction standards. Developed by the International Living Future Institute, the program involves a certification system beyond traditional green building standards. It requires buildings to operate entirely on renewable [...]
The importance of BREEAM In-Use and the certification is growing due to the natural environment being impacted greatly by the expansion of our cities. Not to mention, many of the world's limited resources are used up in the production and operation of the buildings in which we live and [...]
Environmental protection efforts are constantly jeopardized by increasing carbon emissions, plastic trash production, and underdeveloped infrastructure systems. As most of today's infrastructure designs are haphazard, planned out sustainable new construction is essential to finding a solution to these issues. To help solve these environmental issues, the U.S. Green Building [...]
What are ESG green buildings? Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) green buildings are the idea of positively impacting the environment and others by investing money. Many companies are addressing climate change and social progress in architecture and design. This means that ESG refers to businesses using their buildings and [...]
The EU Taxonomy is now becoming entrenched in the evaluation of financial investments across Europe. The Taxonomy itself is massive and complex. It consists of over 550 pages of committee-drafted language, nuanced and very “legal” in appearance. The EU green taxonomy aims at nothing less than a transformation of [...]
Today it requires operators to go out and manually read the sensor data from each individual building, but there is a new solution that allows the data to be in real-time and used to more than certification but also optimization. Idun ProptechOS analyses and collates all the sensor data automatically.
