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Business Garden Warsaw with LEED

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POLAND Five newly built buildings within Business Garden in Warsaw have been awarded LEED Platinum.

"Besides the office complexes in Poznań and Wrocław, this is the third Business Garden in our portfolio to have received the highest rating in the LEED system," said Roger Andersson, the managing director of Vastint Poland, the developer of the complex.

The buildings are set in landscaped gardens with native plant species and all roof areas are planted with sedum. Over 90 pct of the office space has direct access to natural lighting thereby minimising electricity use. The complex comprises seven office buildings with a combined area of ​​ 90,000 sqm.

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ESG

Poland Entire portfolio is green

schedule 28 March 2024
Opr./edited by ANZ

A further 15 buildings owned by Hillwood Polska have been awarded BREEAM In Use certification at the Excellent level. The accreditation now covers the company's entire portfolio.

ESG

Romania U-Center 2 is WELL

schedule 28 March 2024
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Forte Partners has announced WELL Health-Safety Rating certification for U-Center 2, the office building the developer put into operation in September 2023.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni has secured millions

schedule 28 March 2024
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Panattoni has won financing for the development of its latest development in Western Pomerania. The EUR 20 mln loan was granted by mBank.

Retail & leisure

Poland Smart Parks are springing out

schedule 28 March 2024
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Smart Park Poland and RG Leasing announced the latest progress in the implementation of their investment projects. After last year's openings in Mława and Wąbrzeźno, more locations are coming up.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Malaysian debut in Poland

schedule 27 March 2024
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Malaysian retail chain, MR D.I.Y., begins operations in Polish market at Hillwood Zgierz I. The company has leased nearly 5,000 sqm at the park to set up its first logistics center in Central Europe.

Warehouse & industrial

The Czech Republic For the first time in the Czech Republic

schedule 27 March 2024
Opr./edited by ANZ

The 7R Group has been granted permission to build a warehouse in the Czech Republic. This is the first foreign project for the company, which has been growing dynamically in Poland for 15 years. The value of the investment is more than EUR 30 mln.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Outsourcing for e-commerce in Syców

schedule 26 March 2024
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Logistics operator 3LP, specialising in automated outsourcing of logistics services for e-commerce sector, is opening its next location. The company has leased 17,000 sqm in the Hillwood Syców logistics park.

Property and Facility Management

Romania Joint venture management for Romanian portfolio

schedule 26 March 2024
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M Core announces the launch of ‘Square 7 part of M Core’, a strategic joint venture between M Core and Square 7 Properties, to establish a new management platform for the M Core portfolio of 25 retail parks across Romania.

ESG

Albania First BREEAM certificate in Albania

schedule 26 March 2024
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Park Avenue Tower in Tirana has become the first Albanian office project to secure BREEAM Design Stage certification with an Excellent rating.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Trident is staying in Tricity

schedule 26 March 2024
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Trident BMC, which cooperates with maritime, shipbuilding and offshore industry clients, will continue as a tenant in C200 Office. It has renewed and expanded its lease to occupy more than 2,200 sqm of office space.

Office & mixed-use development

The Czech Republic Regional market increasingly attractive

schedule 25 March 2024
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According to the latest survey by Colliers, regional cities in the Czech Republic are becoming an increasingly interesting alternative for investors looking for cheaper, yet high quality, office space outside of Prague.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Hybrid is still going strong

schedule 25 March 2024
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After four years of a pandemic-induced disruption it is now clear that hybrid working is here to stay. New research from Cushman & Wakefield has found that 27 pct of Polish people combine in-office attendance with home office.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania Yusen Logistics chooses CTPark Bucharest

schedule 25 March 2024
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CTP has agreed a five-year lease for 19,000 sqm of warehouse space at CTPark Bucharest in Romania to Yusen Logistics, a global logistics provider.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni sells in Wrocław

schedule 25 March 2024
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Panattoni has finalised the sale of a centre in Lower Silesia. An international real estate company has purchased Panattoni Park Wrocław West Gate with a total area of 46,900 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Quorum A is completed

schedule 25 March 2024
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Cavatina Holding has obtained an occupancy permit for the Quorum A office building, one of the five buildings forming a multifunctional development on the banks of the Odra River. The building provides the Wrocław office market with 18,000 sqm of space spread over 12 storeys.

Property and Facility Management

Romania Cushman rules at Expo Business Park

schedule 25 March 2024
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The Cushman & Wakefield Echinox has been appointed to manage the Expo Business Park office project, located in the Expozitiei area of Bucharest. As a result, the portfolio managed by the company’s asset services department reached almost 500,000 sqm.

Corporate social responsibility

Poland Not only for horses

schedule 22 March 2024
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Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.

Eurobuild FM

Cannes / Poland Big business under the palm trees (ep. 3)

schedule 21 March 2024
Eurobuild CEE

We invite you to the third and last episode of the special podcast from Cannes! Today, three different views on different market segments, united by one approach – quite healthy optimism!

Material partner

Cannes New opportunities emerge in uncertain times

schedule 21 March 2024
Eurobuild CEE

Over 20,000 delegates representing 90 countries gathered in Cannes for the 34th edition of MIPIM, the global urban festival that brings investors, political leaders and the real estate community together to facilitate relationships and find solutions to the challenges facing the built environment.

Office & mixed-use development

Germany Die Bayerische chooses The Source 

schedule 21 March 2024
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The Empira Group has secured the insurance company die Bayerische as a long-term tenant for 11,550 sqm of commercial space in the office complex The Source, currently being modernised in Munich.

Latest in Green projects

schedule 20 September 2023

EIB grants CTP solar-powered €200m loan

Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation programme across its European business park portfolio.

schedule 20 September 2023

Cromwell granted €66m green loan for Janki

Real estate investor and fund manager Cromwell Property Group has secured a EUR 66 mln green loan for the 61,000 sqm Janki shopping centre on the southern outskirts of Warsaw.

schedule 31 July 2023

Pad Res to build 2 PV farms in Pomerania

Pad Res, a joint venture between Griffin Capital Partners and Kajima Europe, is to build two photovoltaic farms in Pomerania with a total capacity of 117 megawatts.

schedule 10 May 2023

KGAL invests more in Polish green energy

German asset manager KGAL Investment Management is to establish a joint venture to build four solar and wind parks with specialist Polish developer Lasuno for its KGAL ESPF 5 impact fund.

schedule 18 April 2023

CTP holds the record

The newly constructed warehouse, which has expanded CTPark Prague West, has been certified as the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the Czech Republic according to ‘BREEAM New Construction’ standards, with a record score of 92.1 pct. The building is home to Rhenus Logistics, which uses it as a cross-dock for its pan-European network for collection services and warehousing.

schedule 28 March 2023

Very Green Norblin

Owned by the Capital Park Group, the Warsaw mixed use complex Norblin Factory has received the final BREEAM certificates for both its office and retail sections. A photovoltaic system has been installed in the complex, and the managers are continuing their efforts to steadily reduce the property’s carbon footprint.

schedule 22 March 2023

Platinium P180

Energy consumption reduced by almost 48 pct, almost 4 mln litres of water saved in a year and CO2 emissions reduced by more than 3,900 tonnes - these are the savings generated by the Warsaw P180 office building, developed by Skanska in Warsaw by the Wilanowska metro station. The investment has just received LEED Core & Shell certification at the Platinum level.

schedule 03 March 2023

First large carbon net zero mall

Docks Bruxsel in Brussels has received a CO2 neutrality certificate from CO2logic/South Pole. It is the first large shopping centre in Europe to receive this certification.

schedule 24 February 2023

Outstanding in Szczecin

Panattoni has received an "Outstanding" rating under the BREEAM International New Construction system for Panattoni Park Szczecin III halls A and B. This is the first such high level of certification in the industrial real estate market in Poland for a newly built investment.

schedule 20 February 2023

CA Immo’s green lease initiative

CA Immo has concluded 45 lease agreements with a total of nearly 29,000 sqm of office space in Warsaw in the past year, 20 pct of which in Q4 of 2022. The company has also introduced a green lease initiative in 2022, governing mutual commitment of landlord and tenant to optimize sustainable building operations. Since May 2022, 23 green lease agreements have already been concluded.

schedule 08 February 2023

.Ktw II is excellent

.Ktw II office building, developed by TDJ Estate, has been certified BREEAM at the Excellent level. The document is the final assessment of the investment's environmental impact. The building achieved a score of 80.6 pct.

schedule 31 January 2023

Towards a sustainable future

Globalworth received 47 various ESG related certifications for its Romanian portfolio in 2022, among them LEED, BREEM, WELL Health & Safety and Access4you accreditations.

schedule 18 January 2023

Life beyond the wind

Panattoni is supporting the upcycling of the machinery used to generate green energy. In 15 of its locations environmentally friendly outdoor furniture made from former wind turbines can already be found, and in 2023 similar furniture is to appear in another 100 locations.

schedule 10 January 2023

Very Good news for Etele Plaza

Futureal’s Etele Plaza in Budapest has received BREEAM 'Very Good' certification in the retail category.

schedule 28 November 2022

Windy in Kostomłoty

Bilfinger Tebodin has completed work on a 27 MW wind farm in Kostomłoty in the South-West of Poland. The investment was carried out by Polenergia, Poland's largest private energy group.

schedule 21 November 2022

Photovoltaics works for Warsaw Unit

Ghelamco has completed its first three photovoltaic farms as part of its programme to achieve energy neutrality, announced in May 2022.  The installations, with a capacity of nearly 3 MW, were built in three locations in the Opole region.

schedule 07 November 2022

Strabag launches C3 pilot project in Bremen

C3, the Circular Construction & Technology Center project in Bremen is the Strabag’s first competence centre for sustainable circularity. It will be focused on resource reprocessing, it will be energy self-sufficient and climate neutral.

schedule 30 September 2022

Outstanding in the Clubhaus

Czech developer CTP has obtained the first BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification – the highest possible level – of its Romanian portfolio for the Clubhaus multifunctional building, part of the CTPark Bucharest West industrial park.

schedule 23 September 2022

Well renewal for Spark C

The fifth floor of the Spark C building in Warsaw, which houses the head office of the Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region, has just been obtained a renewal of its Well Commercial Interior certificate. This is the first such recertification in Poland and the CEE region, and the second in Europe.

schedule 23 August 2022

Well Health-Safety for Globalworth’s Polish portfolio

All 17 properties in the Polish portfolio of Romanian developer Globalworth have obtained Well Health-Safety Rating certification.

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