With the Europe-wide introduction of the energy certification for buildings (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD, 2002) the accurate assessment of the thermal quality of buildings becomes increasingly important for building valuation. The energy certification is a means to predict...

Every year natural hazards and especially hailstorms cause damages to the building stock amounting to millions or even billions of Euros in Germany. The accelerating climate change involves an increasing amount of (convective) energy within the atmosphere with adherent additional damage issues....

The global climate change is an ongoing process which is significantly affected by human activities. Due to the impact to our and future generations as well as the restraint of resources it is necessary to countervail the growing global environmental issues. The real estate industry plays a...

A green agenda turned into a growing subject throughout an increasing number of European listed real estate companies over the last decade. However, the focus on sustainability is probably not only goodwill or partly legislation driven, instead moreover a benefit driven action to achieve a...

Terms such as sustainability, climate change or green buildings belong in the meantime no longer to the exotic foreign words, they became rather common. The focus of the building and real estate economy is in change, which is subject not only to the time, but above all the circumstances....

Every year natural hazards cause damages to the building stock amounting to millions or even billions of Euros in Germany. The accelerating climate change involves an increasing number of extreme weather events with adherent additional issues. These extreme weather events lead to restrictions of...

In terms of climate change mitigation, the response of the property sector is apparent by the diffusion of green buildings. Hence, it is necessary to analyse its diffusion pattern in order to identify the current stage of adoption. By now, the focus of the green building diffusion literature...

The lack of financial drivers are preventing significant investment in sustainability because stakeholders have no ability to measure the sustainability of the building or understand the impact upon the value. Valuers are unable to indicate or clarify whether sustainability is affecting the...

As the real estate industry is responsible for about 40% of the economy's end energy consumption, its potential to contribute to a sustainable development is accordingly high. In terms of climate change mitigation, the response of the property sector is apparent by the diffusion of green...

The importance of lowering the ecological footprint of human kind to a sustainable level is meanwhile unquestionable. The number of green products is increasing, but the product itself is not sufficient to reduce the ecological imbalance. Since life-cycle-assessments and life-cycle-cost...