Property management

Wereldhave Belgium is convinced that building owners and users need to work together to improve the sustainability of buildings. To ensure that both the owner and the user recognize the importance of sustainability, ‘Green leases’ can be implemented. ‘Green leases’ contain an extra clause in which an agreement is made about finishing and decorating the building and exchanging information regarding the energy and water consumption. The goal for the upcoming years is that Wereldhave Belgium will close Green leases for new rental agreements when expanding shopping centres and – in the long term – when renewing the lease of an existing shop.

In order to set our sustainability goals, we need to know how a building performs on a number of indicators. That is why Wereldhave Belgium monitors the energy and water consumption of its real estate portfolio. This information stream about the energy and water consumption of our buildings enables Wereldhave Belgium to analyze building performance and detect and improve any underperforming properties.

In the course of 2010, a new garbage management system was introduced in the office buildings. This was a closed underground storage system. The waste is still separated into four fractions, but the number of transport movements needed to transfer the waste for processing, is reduced by 30% in the new system.

Wereldhave Belgium has been purchasing green power for its entire real estate portfolio since a number of years.