Sustainability Knight Frank - it’s our world

By Peter Moloney
Director, Knight Frank Management Ireland

Knight Frank is committed to being an environmentally responsible firm and has an international Sustainability Consultancy team to drive innovation and value to clients.

Over 80% of today’s built environment shall still be here in 2030 and, therefore, sustainable property asset management is vital in the building life-cycle.

We work with clients to –
•  Understand and comply with existing legislation
•  Inform as to environmental policy development
•  Apply sustainability to their property and business
•  Identify and achieve cost savings though sustainability strategies
•  Exploit renewable energy solutions
•  Compare environmental performance with international benchmarks for asset classes

For our own part, Knight Frank takes a leading role in environmental standards and compliance   in many of our worldwide markets, whether that be our Gold Label Award in the Low Carbon Office Operation programme in the Hong Kong office, our accreditation for our Environment Management System to ISO 14001:2004 Standard covering our UK offices, or achieving with our clients’ teams compliance with a range of international building rating metrics e.g. BREAM, Global Reporting Initiative, LEED etc. 

Here in Ireland we also take a leading role, and our Property Asset Management business was the first in Ireland to report our own carbon emissions and also the carbon emissions of our clients’ property portfolios under management.

We utilise our in-house expertise in providing Carbon Accounting and Reporting services to clients. This benefits our clients’ tenants in enabling them to fulfil their commitment to the environment and also to be assured that their building is being managed in line with best practice environmental policies.

We take responsibility for our actions and carefully consider the environment in the procurement of services across our management portfolio.

We also secure commercial value for utilities charges and work in partnership with a specialist brokerage in purchasing various utilities on a portfolio basis.