Discover how BREEAM‑NL provides direction for future-proof and valuable real estate.
BREEAM is the most widely used sustainability certification for buildings in the world and is applied in more than one hundred countries. In the Netherlands, BREEAM‑NL forms the benchmark to make sustainability in real estate measurable, comparable and manageable. From residential investors and offices to hotels and logistics real estate: an increasing number of organisations use BREEAM‑NL to maintain their sustainability ambitions and to improve performance in a targeted way. Not only real estate players, but also universities, municipalities and institutional investors work with BREEAM. For example, Vesteda recently certified its entire residential portfolio, and parties such as Prologis and The Social Hub use BREEAM‑NL to embed sustainability structurally into their strategy. In this session, you will discover what BREEAM‑NL is, why so many organisations use it, and what it delivers in practice for future-proof and valuable real estate.
Speakers
Thomas Heye, Certification manager & programme manager BREEAM-NL at Dutch Green Building Council
Esterre Furster, Junior project manager at Dutch Green Building Council
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