An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Sustainable Real Estate
ESG and Sustainability Policies and
Best Practices in Real Estate
Course Introduction
This Oxford Management Centre Sustainable Real Estate training course is designed to enable delegates to integrate the rising importance of ESG for real estate. This training course provides a route map for developers and investors to capitalise on recent trends in legislation, regulation, investor and lender appetite, measurement and reporting to maximise the value outcome from the investment in ESG practices that is now essential for highly rated and outperforming real estate organisations.
The delegates will study how ESG and sustainability have risen to their current importance, compare their role in other industries (the tenants of real estate) and examine such important current issues as the latest legislation worldwide. The delegates will learn how ESG and sustainability work in practice across a wide range of assets including offices, hotels, warehouses and business parks, factories, and residential complexes at real estate companies, both developers and investors.
Objectives
By attending this Sustainable Real Estate training course, participants will gain the following
- Deep knowledge of the current state of ESG policies and practices
- Understanding of how to apply key market trends, reporting structures, performance indicators, and ESG reporting structures for real estate companies.
- Data and analysis of relevant ESG measurement, benchmarking and rating criteria and certification, how they differ and how they are applied in practice.
- Skills to identify and apply in their own organisations the ESG factors that are material to a range of commercial property types, including across the spectrum of investment strategies, from core to opportunistic and from development through physical investment to funds.
- The ability to identify and assess ESG related risks and opportunities to real estate investments in the short and longer-term, including the effect of reporting on transparency and the ultimate impact on profitability and shareholder value.
Training Methodology
This Sustainable Real Estate training course will be highly interactive using various case studies, practical real-world exercises and examples throughout. Delegates will perform calculations, analyse financial aspects of the case and draw conclusions, or make presentations to other groups regarding the case. The interactivity generated by the case study process, as well as by contributions by delegates within the training course generally will encourage questions and discussion throughout, which makes this training course worthwhile as a high-quality learning experience for delegates.
Who Should Attend?
This Sustainable Real Estate training course is suitable for a wide range of delegates, as sustainable real estate is now clearly central to the strategies of most commercial organisations, as well as to the public sector. It will greatly benefit those who develop, finance, manage, analyse buy or sell real estate, especially:
- Real Estate Economists
- Regulators and Urban Planners
- Real Estate Developers (especially those with a develop-and-hold strategy)
- Land and Construction Professionals ( including quantity and chartered surveyors, and other real estate valuers)
- Investors in Real Estate (including pension funds, private equity firms, REITs, REOCs, insurance companies, and opportunity/hedge funds)
- Investment Bankers, Fund Managers, and Finance Professionals engaged in real estate development and investment
- Bankers and Lenders
- Public and Private Sector Property Managers
- Property Tenants (e.g., major retailers, banks, government agencies or industrial companies)
- Institutional Lenders such as Banks, Life Insurance Companies and Pension Funds
- Lawyers, Accountants and other Consultants advising the Real Estate Industry
Course Outline
Day One
Policies and Drivers
- Environmental concerns and real estate
- The rise of Net Zero
- The contribution of real estate to environmental issues
- ESG legislation for real estate in the Gulf
- The social impact of real estate
- CSR and Social Impact policies for developers
- Local procurement
- Labour standards and working conditions
- The creation and maintenance of communities
- Tenancy mix
- Diversity and inclusion
- CSR and Social Impact for real estate investors
- Integration of Islamic social finance with CSR for real estate
- CSR and Social Impact policies for developers
Day Two
Risk and Governance
- Risk analysis for real estate development
- A risk typology for real estate
- Identifying and measuring risks
- Risk management tools and their use in practice
- Governance for developers
- The legislative and regulatory framework for corporate governance in the Gulf – a global comparison
- The EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive and its analogues in the Gulf
- Best practices for governance: real estate developers
- Board and executive structures
- Workforce issues
- Transparency and reporting
- Worldwide evidence on developer governance
- LP and GP governance
- Private equity governance guidelines in the Gulf, UK and worldwide
Day Three
ESG Measurement and Reporting Tools, Techniques and Standards
- ESG measurement for real estate
- Measuring ESG for developers and construction companies
- Energy use and control
- HVAC analytics
- Water and waste management
- Biodiversity
- Tracking material use: analysing embedded carbon and other issues for the real estate supply chain
- Governance – tax, corruption, and data privacy
- Lifecycle costing
- Sectoral differences (residential, industrial, retail, office and others)
- Reviewing global evidence for the range of potential and actual ESG variables for developers and investors
- Measuring ESG for developers and construction companies
- ESG reporting for real estate
- Comparing reporting indicators across jurisdictions
- Measuring transparency for real estate investors
- Portfolio analysis: best practice benchmarking
- GRESB reporting
- SECR reporting
- ESOS reporting
- ECORE
- SBTi reporting
- Conforming to ESG standards
- UN SDGs
- The UN PRI
- UN Global Compact
- Reporting according to GRI requirements
- Analysis of the GRI requirements for sustainability reporting
- How to report using the GRI standards(
- Examples of GRI real estate reporting
- Integrating other standards relevant to the energy sector into sustainability reporting using the GRI, including:
- ESRS
- ISSB
- UNSDG
- People, places and progress: reporting social initiatives
- Certification, benchmarking and reporting frameworks at asset portfolio and corporate level
- Property green standards for construction and investment: evolution and benchmarking, including:
- LEED / BREEAM / REEB / NABERS / EDGE / WELL / Fitwel / Energy Star / ISO 14001 / Estidama / Mostadam
Day Four
Implementation of ESG Policies for Real Estate Developers and Investors
- Implementation
- The role of data collection
- Utilisation of tools (e.g., CREEAM Risk Assessment)
- Integrating ESG into BIM and GIS software
- Predictive maintenance and the wider ESG perspective on Facilities Management
- Management of ESG implementation
- Key challenges and obstacles from a decade of ESG real estate implementation
- Overcoming greenwashing in ESG implementation
- ESG qualifications for real estate
- Interaction with development teams
- Financing
- The design and scope of green bonds
- Bank green lending practices for real estate
- Green leases
- Integration of Islamic finance and green financing
Day Five
ESG Impact on Real Estate
- Impact measurement
- Financing costs and ESG performance for real estate developers and investors
- The emergence of real estate ESG rating
- Developer ESG policies and valuation
- ESG and retention rates
- Impact on rental rates, capital values and yields in the Gulf
- Construction and development companies, ESG and share prices
- ESG, property value and investment performance
- Translation of ESG scoring to portfolio performance and value
- E, S, and G – evidence on the relative contribution of each to financial performance
- The future trajectory of ESG and real estate
Certificate
On successful completion of this training course, Oxford Management Centre Certificate with eligible Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) from National Registry of CPE Sponsor will be awarded to the delegates
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