The building industry being one of the most polluting sectors, people are trying to find solutions to reduce their carbon footprint. These solutions already exist or are being developed, but they are not yet widespread, even if they are not more expensive. Therefore, how can everyone improve their building performance and reduce their carbon footprint avoiding major construction works. Energy Generation: Using photovoltaic solar panels and solar water heaters Installing photo

What is the difference between a Carbon Neutral and a Net Zero Building? Between a Carbon Positive and Carbon Negative Building? As these labels might all sound complicated, we decided in this article to give our proper definition of each term and their certifications equivalent for you to better understand this very wide subject. Carbon Neutral, Negative or Positive or even Net-Zero: what is the difference? Carbon Neutral: Being carbon neutral for companies implies that the

As we announced last Thursday our first speaker, for The Green Real Estate 2022, Trey Archer from GRESB will focus his speech on « The importance of ESG compliance in the race to Net Zero ». To better understand this subject let us introduce the ESG principles and its impact in the building sector. ESG for Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance is a framework integrated to an organization’s strategy for sustainability awareness. In fact, the company expands its objec