ESG Criteria: Standards for sustainable corporate governance

What are ESG criteria and how are they embodied at GARBE?

ESG stands for Environmental Social Governance and thus for the principle of sustainable corporate governance, which always focuses on ecological factors, social interaction and ethical guidelines.

Environment: ecologically sustainable management.

In our business, this means dealing responsibly with the raw materials used and planning, constructing and managing a property as efficiently as possible from an ecological and energy perspective. Of course, we do not leave out the so-called embodied energy, namely the energy that is already part of existing buildings and which would largely be lost in a demolition: Sometimes, it is, therefore, also worthwhile from an ecological point of view to extend the life of existing buildings as far as possible.

Sustainable investing at GARBE

Our ESG criteria list

• We build ecologically: around 90% of the logistics properties we build meet the DGNB Gold Standard.
• Green energy: We offer a ready-made concept for the construction of photovoltaic systems on hall roofs.
• More efficiency: We enable extensive ecological retrofitting of existing properties, such as LED lighting systems, motion detectors, automatic gates, PV systems also in retrofitting with e-charging stations, etc.
• We conserve embodied energy: by carefully weighing the extension of the life of existing properties against the demolition/new build option, including from an environmental perspective.
• Brownfield sites: we avoid land sealing by redeveloping brownfields and brownfield sites.
• We develop innovative building forms: while respecting ESG criteria of environmental and social sustainability, thus also providing an opportunity for optimal land use in a peri-urban environment.
• Consideration for our surroundings: by building attractive façade designs and social initiatives in and around our office locations
• Data transparency: we support the owners in creating more transparency.