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Sustainability Strategies

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Aligning mission, vision and strategy for sustainable commercial buildings — This article explains how organisations in the property and construction sector can take a strategic approach to sustainability as a means to enhance competitive advantage, add value, and contribute to the procurement and operation of sustainable commercial buildings.
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Culture change for sustainable commercial buildings — This article explains how organisations in the property and construction sector can bring about the cultural change required to achieve a vision of sustainability for their organisation, whether they are involved in design, construction, management or occupancy of sustainable buildings.
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Education, awareness and training for sustainable commercial buildings — This article provides an overview of how to create effective programs for learning and change within your organisation.
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An investor perspective on sustainability and commercial buildings — This article discusses the role of sustainability performance in investor appraisals of company value, and explains why sustainable commercial buildings can enhance valuations.
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Six steps to sustainable commercial buildings — Six steps to sustainability is a 'how to' guide for owning, developing, designing, constructing, occupying and managing sustainable commercial buildings. For each industry group, it is a compilation of input and ideas from Australian industry leaders as to what, in their experience, are the most important issues and how they can be addressed.
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Corporate responsibility and sustainability — This case study discusses the experience of leading property group Stockland in bringing together corporate responsibility, sustainability and human resources.
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Changing mindsets of company executives - Assessing the impact of societal issues — This report provides the results of a study looking at the changing views of company executives around the world. It uses comparisons from a study in 2005 to show the way the business world is changing, especially with the increasing importance to environmental issues.
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The Greening of Existing Buildings — This is a summary of recent articles addressing the topic of greening of the existing building stock and links to the full article are available now.
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Opportunities for Existing Buildings - Deep Emissions Cuts — Davis Langdon investigated the opportunities associated with achieving national emissions targets via the Australian property sector. A principal finding is that in order to achieve a 40% reduction in GHG emissions the existing commercial building stock will have to be upgraded to a MINIMUM Australian Building Greenhouse Rating of 4.5 stars.
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Sustainability - The measurement and reporting challenge — This Jones Lang LaSalle's paper explores today's sustainability reporting landscape and compares it with the traditional model. It looks at the issues facing companies in Australia with regard to sustainability reporting requirements and presents a roadmap towards meeting the challenges.
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Reducing investment risk in sustainable building development — This article presents a tool that tests, at project inception, the financial feasibility of a development that aims for best-practice sustainability.
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