Green Buildings Tool
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The advantages of the Green Buildings Tool
Make the sustainability of buildings and homes simple and clear with the help of our handy tool. With our automated consultant, you have all the information about the buildings in your portfolio in one place.
Baseline measurements
Portfolios containing many large buildings come with both sustainability risks and opportunities. The Green Buildings Tool scans portfolios with hundreds of thousands of assets, providing precise insights into where investments will have the greatest impact and where the highest savings potential lies. The scan can be conducted based on specific goals, sectors, buildings, or any desired cross-section.
Where will you start?
Easily create carbon and ESG reports
With the Green Buildings Tool, you can quickly and effortlessly compile custom reports, from an individual building to an entire real estate portfolio. Whether your focus is on ESG, carbon reduction, financial savings, or improving energy labels, the reports provide a clear overview of current performance and opportunities.
The reports offer detailed insights into the business case of your buildings, including specifications, recommended measures, and corresponding financial returns. They also provide a structured way to calculate and share investments and payback periods, making them the ideal starting point for any sustainability initiative.
For building owners and financial institutions, carbon and ESG reports are becoming increasingly important. They serve as a foundation for decision-making by shareholders, financiers, and potential buyers. CFP helps clients create reports in line with recognised standards such as PCAF, CRREM, and GRESB, ensuring compliance with stakeholder requirements while making sustainability measurable and transparent.
Future-proof your real estate with the CRREM module
The CRREM module is integrated into the Green Buildings Tool to help property owners, investors, and asset managers align their portfolios with the Paris Climate Goals. The module analyses energy consumption and carbon intensity, providing insight into the risk of stranded assets.
Through decarbonisation pathways and planned measures, users can easily monitor how their real estate portfolio is performing and identify the improvements needed to remain future-proof.
The roadmap to Paris Proof and net zero
Use the roadmap to gain clear insights into the financial and logistical aspects of your sustainability project. The roadmap provides a visual overview of how the business case evolves over time by aligning financial planning with technical planning.
You can schedule individual measures for each building in your portfolio separately. This allows you to instantly see the expected carbon savings, achieved EPC ratings, and corresponding investments in your sustainable buildings at any given point in time.
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Green Bonds
The Green Buildings Tool can automatically assess real estate portfolios against green bond criteria, making it possible to analyse large portfolios in one go. This allows you to quickly identify which assets qualify for green bond issuance. With the help of our smart tool, we have already helped to issue more than 100 billion euros in green bonds for major companies.
DuPa Module
Integrating sustainability into valuations? Discover the benefits of the Sustainability Paragraph Module (DuPa Module). Gain instant insight into the sustainability characteristics of real estate and see how they translate into energy efficiency, climate resilience, and the business case—all in compliance with DuPa 2.0. Improve your valuations, enhance the value of your analyses, and contribute to a more sustainable real estate sector. Make sustainability not just a consideration, but a strategic advantage in your valuation process. We provide clear insights into the innovative sustainability measures you can implement in your building.
Ready to take action on sustainability? The DuPa Module seamlessly integrates with the Green Buildings Tool, giving you a comprehensive overview of the current status, necessary measures, and business case for further sustainability improvements.
Climate adaptation & physical risk
In the long term, buildings will be increasingly exposed to climate risks such as strong winds, heat stress, and flooding. These risks not only affect the use and maintenance of buildings but are also playing a growing role in securing financing. By identifying risks and adopting climate-adaptive construction, you can prevent damage, ensure value retention, and even increase property value.
With the Climate Adaptation Scan in the Green Buildings Tool, you gain insight into the physical risks affecting your buildings. Simply enter the postcode to discover which climate risks apply to your location. This allows you to take targeted steps to future-proof your real estate.
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International sustainability
The Green Buildings Tool works in 70 countries, with major implementations in the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, and Australia. Ten countries in Europe, the USA, Canada and several countries in Asia will be rolled out in the near future. So even large multinationals can easily use the Green Buildings Tool.
The dynamic displays in the area of sustainability, energy consumption, and circularity mean making informed choices is easier than ever before. Now, you can see exactly how much investment you need to make to reach net zero.
NL Green
With the online tool Heel NL Groen, we make sustainability accessible for all. Whether it’s sports facilities, healthcare institutions, offices, or schools—Heel NL Groen provides easy access to expert advice and sustainable solutions, from analysis to implementation.
The first rollout of Heel NL Groen began as Sport NL Groen, a collaboration with NOC*NSF and the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). This initiative has already helped 30,000 sports facilities and 70 sports federations make their buildings more sustainable. The tool not only helps sports clubs reduce costs and simplify the process but also contributes to a healthier and future-proof sports sector.
With Heel NL Groen, we are now expanding this successful model to other sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government.
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EPCs, business cases, and CO2 data for portfolios, buildings, and homes |
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Green bond analysis and support, baseline measurements |
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Frequently asked questions
What are Green Buildings?
Green buildings are buildings that take the environment into account. They are built using construction techniques that minimise energy, waste and water consumption. But there are things you can do to make existing buildings into green buildings, too. Green buildings can be found all over: from schools and homes to sports clubs and offices.
What are the advantages of green buildings?
Green buildings offer many advantages. They use the latest techniques to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. That means users benefit from lower energy bills and a better living environment. For investors and property managers, green buildings bring higher returns.
How do you make buildings sustainable and green?
A green building starts at the design stage. For example, the use of sustainable building materials, green energy and a good fit with the environment in which the building is located must be considered. Existing buildings can be made more sustainable by using the right insulation materials and additional energy-saving measures.
What is the Green Buildings Tool?
The Green Buildings Tool (GBT) is a digital energy consulting solution designed to evaluate the energy efficiency of real estate properties. Users can utilize this tool to assess the energy performance of buildings, retrieving current Energy Performance scores or certificates (either actual or proxy, depending on data availability). Additionally, the GBT calculates carbon emissions and offers customized suggestions for energy efficiency enhancements at the building level. Whether evaluating individual buildings or entire portfolios, this tool provides tailored recommendations to promote greener, more sustainable practices.
What kind of management information does the Green Buildings Tool offer?
The tool offers valuable insights to enhance the energy efficiency of your portfolio. It provides sustainable business cases for individual properties as well as at the portfolio level. By evaluating factors such as investment, energy savings, carbon emission reduction, and enhancements in local energy ratings, it enables comprehensive strategic decision-making. Moreover, the tool generates compelling business cases that can assist management in making informed decisions regarding investment and loan portfolios.
Can the Tool be offered as a full white label solution?
The fully licenced Tool is a white-labelled platform with flexibility for customisation, which offers two types of customisation: a comprehensive version and a lite version. In the comprehensive version, clients can personalise text, fonts, colours, images, logos and dedicated landing pages unless otherwise specified in the proposal. For a simpler customisation approach, the lite version allows clients to change the primary and secondary colours and incorporate their logo. This usually goes hand in hand with shared hosting instead of dedicated hosting for environments with comprehensive customisation. Additional customisation possibilities can be explored upon client request, considering the necessary resources and budget.
We offer a high level of customization, allowing full branding and customization of the frontend styling of the tool. Collaboration with marketing and branding teams ensures the styling is accurately implemented, and adjustments to the customization can be made as needed throughout the tool’s usage.
What insights does the Green Buildings Tool provide, and how can clients utilize this information?
The Green Building Assessment Tool provides rapid insights and tailored recommendations for a client’s retrofitting business case. While the case for retrofitting is unique to each client, these insights serve as valuable guidelines. Clients can utilize this information to discern their business case and establish a roadmap for their ESG strategy, whether it involves energy efficiency, carbon emission reduction towards achieving net-zero goals, or ensuring compliance with government regulations.
What technical expertise is required to operate the Green Buildings Tool?
The Green Buildings Tool is crafted to be user-friendly and intuitive, eliminating the need for extensive technical knowledge. You can effectively work with it without any specialized technical background. If you encounter challenges or have inquiries, your Relationship Manager (if applicable) is on hand to offer assistance and support, ensuring a seamless experience. Also, please reach out to our Customer Support Team who will be pleased to guide you in the right direction: support@greenbuildingstool.com
What data sources does the tool utilize?
How does CFP handle cybersecurity and data privacy?
CFP maintains the highest standards in information security. The company is certified under the ISO 27001 standard, ensuring stringent measures for information security at both the network/infrastructure level and user level across the entire organization.
How does the tool differentiate itself from competitors?
While several companies provide ESG data insights for real estate portfolios, the GBT stands out for its personalized approach. We offer customized business cases for both your entire portfolio and individual buildings. Additionally, our tool allows you to update data in later stages, a feature not available on many other platforms. What sets us apart is our simplicity: with just 4 data inputs, the Tool provides actionable, accurate and scalable sustainability insights applicable worldwide.
How many buildings can I input into the Green Buildings Tool?
The number of buildings or assets you can input depends on the type of license you have acquired. If you need to upload large portfolios consisting of thousands or even millions of assets, CFP’s support team can assist you through batch file uploads. This streamlined process reduces your workload and enhances overall efficiency.
Is the Green Buildings Tool suitable for residential properties?
Certainly, the Green Buildings Tool is designed to cater to residential properties. It supports various property types, including Community, Conference, and Restaurant, Education, Healthcare, House, Industry, Lodging (hotel), Office, Parking, Retail, Sport, Storage and Distribution, and Tower Block.
Does the tool have the capability to link to banks’ financial products and services?
Yes, this is possible will the full End-to-End licence. Our end-to-end platform is capable of linking the outcomes of the tool to the bank’s products and services where required through APIs and SSO.
In which countries is the Green Buildings Tool available?
The Tool is accessible globally, allowing users worldwide to utilize its features. Currently, the Tool’s algorithms are operational in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sinapore and more. In these countries algorithms are connected to public and private data. The tool integrates information from the EPC register, NABERS, Green Star and plans are in progress for expansion to various countries in Europe, APAC, and North America. In to-be-launched countries, cost levels, carbon emission data, energy benchmarks are the first to be implemented. Then, specific standards per country, legislation and subsidies are a next phase.
Can the Green Buildings Tool be used in conjunction with other accreditation schemes like BREEAM and WELL?
Yes, the Green Building Assessment Tool serves as a powerful guide for enhancing energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions at both portfolio and building levels. It offers valuable insights into areas where improvements can be made, which might align with credits for BREEAM and/or WELL certification. It’s important to note, however, that the Tool doesn’t replace BREEAM or WELL certifications. These certifications involve on-site assessments and consider additional factors such as health, wealth, transport, and waste. The Assessment Tool, on the other hand, provides automated, actionable, and scalable insights specifically focused on energy efficiency and carbon emissions.
Are there any videos that demonstrate the capabilities of the Tool?
Absolutely! Here is a video about the Green Buildings Tool: https://vimeo.com/749873738
Terms Of Use for the Green Buildings Tool
By using the Green Buildings Tool, you agree to the following Terms of Use. Please read these terms carefully.
Ownership and intellectual property
The Green Buildings Tool and any copies you make are the intellectual property of and are owned by CFP Green Buildings and its licensors. You may use the tool for its intended purpose but must not remove, deface, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or proprietary notices. Reverse engineering or modifying the tool is prohibited.
No guarantee of accuracy
While we strive for the most accurate representation of information, errors may occur. Programming or typing errors do not constitute a contract or agreement with CFP Green Buildings. We aim for an up-to-date website but do not warrant or accept liability for completeness or accuracy. We reserve the right to change, remove, or update materials without prior notice.
Third-party links
Links to third-party websites are provided for reference. CFP Green Buildings does not endorse the products or services on these websites and is not responsible for their content, use, or availability. We have not evaluated the accuracy or completeness of information on such websites.
Amendments
CFP Green Buildings reserves the right to change information on this website and these Terms of Use without notice. Continued use of the Green Buildings Tool after changes constitute acceptance of the updated terms.
Applicable law
These Terms of Use are governed by Dutch law. Any disputes arising from or related to these terms will be exclusively submitted to the competent court in the Netherlands.
Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about these Terms of Use.
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Disclaimer:
The information presented in this tool is intended solely for authorized users. The content of this information is based on the client’s circumstances and information supplied by the client. Additional inputs have been retrieved from publicly and privately available databases, including, but not limited to the EPC register and CFP’s expert system. The data provided by the client, retrieved from external sources, benchmarks and assumptions are combined to provide the advice as described in the tool.
No guarantee of any kind can be given that the circumstances described will be fully consistent with the actual financial outcomes. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer
The information presented in this tool is intended solely for authorized users. The content of this information is based on the client’s circumstances and information supplied by the client. Additional inputs have been retrieved from publicly and privately available databases, including, but not limited to the EPC register and CFP’s expert system. The data provided by the client, retrieved from external sources, benchmarks and assumptions are combined to provide the advice as described in the tool.
No guarantee of any kind can be given that the circumstances described will be fully consistent with the actual financial outcomes. All rights reserved.
