Meet our UKGBC Future Leaders
We’re proud of Ainsley Diprose, Associate Director, and Petro Michaelas, Principal Sustainability Consultant, for representing Verte on the UKGBC Future Leaders programme – we’re honoured our team made up 10% of this year’s intake! Following the group’s final reflections workshop last month, we spoke with Ainsley and Petro about their experience. What has been your…
Read MoreRetrofit challenge for Life Sciences
How can you align life sciences developments with net zero objectives? This was a key part of the debate for the ‘Retrofit challenge for Life Sciences’ panel I chaired at FOOTPRINT+, featuring speakers Dave Wakelin, Director of Sustainability, Gleeds; Simon Hepher-Davies, Asset Manager, British Land; Alex Wraight, Allies and Morrison; and Ivan Jovanovic, Technical Director,…
Read MoreHow do you decarbonise your assets?
This was a central theme at FOOTPRINT+ 2024. But the event highlighted the many barriers to transition investors and property owners face: sourcing and collating data to review an asset’s performance and develop a pathway to net zero; implementing individual asset improvement plans beyond the fund level; regulation that doesn’t yet recognise value-add real estate…
Read MoreDecarbonising the built environment
At Verte we’re on a mission to decarbonise the built environment, and I’ve recently had the pleasure of attending and speaking at two industry events focused on this goal. The first, GBCI Europe Circle held in Athens, looked at how green building certifications are advancing to accelerate decarbonisation in real estate and presented LEED v5.…
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