The profits of being green

The study analysed 20 office buildings built over the last 20 years including both buildings that had and did not have ecological certification. Half of the buildings were built by Skanska while the rest came from the management portfolio of Cushman & Wakefield. The real energy consumption measurements for each building were compared to those of a control building that had never implemented any ecological solutions at the design or construction stage. “Over the last few years we have gathered a lot of data on the operations of the green office buildings we’ve constructed. To see how our design assumptions actually worked in practice we needed to compare our buildings to other office buildings in Poland. There turned out to be a lack of detailed and comprehensive studies that could be used by our development operations. We decided with our partners to draw up a study that fully analysed the Polish office market with buildings of different ages and with various environmen