In 2010 the Group, through its corporate arm created for developing and coordinating
the real-estate business, Generali Immobiliare, launched the international project
Green Building Workshop bringing together Group key players in the real estate
field. The initiative aims at defining and implementing a set of Green Building Guidelines (GBG) with a view to ensuring the respect of high environmental standards within
the Group property portfolio, amounting to about 24.8 billion euros. The objectives
of this initiative also include anticipating future regulations in order to limit
the future obsolescence of the property, as well as leveraging the green initiatives
and strengthening positive relationships with both occupiers and real-estate managing
agencies, so as to involve them in a sustainable buildings management.
In order to best focus efforts where the Group can bring the most value, the
buildings have been divided into three groups: buildings in the existing portfolio;
new developments and major renovations; new investments to be made in existing
buildings
During the initial stages, the project concentrated on the existing buildings
that represent an important part of Generali’s property assets, and within this
group, it concentrated on the office buildings that represent over 70%.
In order to measure the energy-environmental sustainability of the buildings,
an initial representative sample, comprising three properties for each country
(Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland), was identified,
with one building partly or entirely designated for own use, making a total of
21 buildings.
The sample of Generali buildings was compared, using a shared measuring tool
called Green Rating, with a European sample of more than 300 buildings in 60 cities in 12 European
countries. The Green Rating measures and evaluates the environmental performance
of each building according to the following criteria: energy, transport, environmental
footprint, water, well-being/comfort, waste. The comparison was carried out both
for actual performance based on the actual operational usage of the building by
the occupants and actual consumption, and for intrinsic performance which is based
on the existing building design, equipments and installations, related to a conventional
scenario of real estate use.
The Green Rating reported for each building a series of concrete recommendations,
costs and payback periods in order to improve the environmental performance of
the buildings, which will be carried out by the Green Building Workshop members
and their local teams over a 12 month period, after which the buildings will be
reassessed to evaluate progress.
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Three of the buildings that make up the sample of the Green Building Workshop
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