{"id":9809,"date":"2023-11-21T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfpgreenbuildings.com\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:28:06","slug":"making-ten-logistics-buildings-more-sustainable-we-will-accept-that-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfpgreenbuildings.com\/news-and-cases\/making-ten-logistics-buildings-more-sustainable-we-will-accept-that-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Making ten logistics buildings more sustainable: ‘We will accept that challenge!’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A sustainability pilot of ten logistics buildings for Dream shows the ambitions of the subsidiary of Toronto-based Dream Industrial REIT. Lian van Uem and Dream’s Nienke Jacobs-Rovers tell us how CFP Green Buildings offered its support to achieve ambitions, including gaining insight, reducing carbon emissions and lowering energy consumption.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dream Industrial REIT has logistics buildings in their portfolio in Canada, the United States and Europe. For the Netherlands, CFP Green Buildings was challenged to make the Dutch real estate portfolio more sustainable. Lian: “This is why we started a pilot with ten buildings, for which we carried out BREEAM-NL certifications. The ten different buildings serve as logistics halls, with an office section, large production halls and an industrial part. A great challenge, because CFP’s support does not stop at obtaining a BREEAM plaque, but also involves implementing the actual sustainability measures. That meant we not only prepared the recommendations for the sustainability measures to be implemented, but also approached suppliers and requested quotations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Making the ten buildings more sustainable is in line with Dream’s ambitions. Nienke knows more about that: “We have a strategy to get to Net Zero, no more emissions of harmful greenhouse gases. If we want to achieve the targets, we need to act now and focus on saving energy and reducing carbon emissions with our buildings. The pilot involves some relatively new buildings, as well as some that have been there for a while. We wanted to work with BREEAM to demonstrate the sustainability of the buildings, also to our tenants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sustainability process started with gaining insight. “Obtaining the information that you need can be quite a challenge,” Lian points out. “Especially when not all information on, for example, energy flows and materials is available. We combined available information with data at our fingertips thanks to BREEAM quick scans<\/a> on site. This gave us a good idea of the buildings and also what BREEAM scores they achieved. We also discovered which measures made the biggest impact and the investments involved.” That process went smoothly, partly because Dream and CFP Green Buildings had cooperated previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGaining insight<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n