Evolutions in Sustainability and Sustainable Real Estate

Goubran, Sherif; Masson, Tristan; Caycedo, Margarita

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“…The application of the sustainability criteria is a real challenge for the active companies in the real estate domain, these being important benchmarks for both the construction of the sustainable buildings and for the profitable real estate investments. Due to the nature of its core operations, the real estate sector has the capacity to contribute to the attainment of all SDGs [7,8]. Because of the major impact of buildings on the environment (the real estate sector consumes over 40% of the global energy annually, 30% of the raw materials and 12% of the drinking water, generating 25%-40% of the solid waste and 20% of the total gas emissions), the environmental objectives have been included as a priority in the strategies of several European real estate companies [9,10].…”

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The Involvement of Real Estate Companies in Sustainable Development—An Analysis from the SDGs Reporting Perspective

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As transparency has become the new paradigm of economic activities, we set out to analyse the extent to which the EU real estate companies legitimise their role in society through the sustainable development goals (SDGs) while meeting stakeholders’ information needs. Applying the content analysis, the sustainability reports and the annual reports of the entities from the real estate sector, from 2016 to 2018, were studied in order to highlight the priority SDGs of the field and the extent to which they are integrated in their business models. In addition, we evaluated, based on a quality score, the depth with which the entities report their sustainability commitments. The results of the study show that although more and more real estate entities are expressing their interest for sustainable development, there is still a large gap between the assumed intentions and the real actions undertaken by the companies. Most of them do not have the strategy, culture and tools needed to turn sustainability commitments into concrete actions. According to the average quality score (2.99 out of 5), the entities present their sustainability aspirations mostly qualitatively and report few quantitative key performance indicators (KPIs) to reveal the degree of achievement of the priority SDGs, such as: SDG 11—Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 13—Climate action and SDG 8—Decent work and economic growth.

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“…In the field of building design, the incremental approaches have been usually linked to the use of sustainability assessment tools-which are rooted in an optimization and eco-efficiency mode of reasoning [6,8,48,53,63,96]. By combining the theoretical models presented, 4 levels of sustainability integration in buildings can be proposed:…”

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“…Since SDG 11 (make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) has been cited as one of the most relevant to the construction industry [63,77,113], it can be used as an illustrative example for these different levels of integration across the 3 axes. Within SDG 11, the most relevant targets to building projects include: target 11.4…”

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“…One of the assumptions used in the study is the disconnect of the current planning and design process from the sustainable development objectives. Although the current prevailing practices do consider certain environmental, social and economic factors in the design, the researchers were unable to find theoretical or practical models which have sustainable development, in its broad definition, as their core objective (as opposed to cost, energy, or sustainability credits optimization objectives)-this assumption is supported by the work of [43,51,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64]. Additionally, this research does not explicitly compare, analyze or map the interaction between these rating and certification tools and the SDGs-thus not highlighting the possible synergies between the 2030 Agenda and the green building rating tools.…”

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“…2019;1:e190010. https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20190010 due to the large number of stakeholders involved in the decision-making process of commercial building design, there are often conflicting interests and a multitude of perspectives being presented during the IDP [43,63].…”

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Evolutions in Sustainability and Sustainable Real Estate

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

The Involvement of Real Estate Companies in Sustainable Development—An Analysis from the SDGs Reporting Perspective

The Involvement of Real Estate Companies in Sustainable Development—An Analysis from the SDGs Reporting Perspective

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