Warsaw Spire awarded BREEAM ‘Excellent’
Green projectsschedule 13 March 2014
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POLAND The Warsaw office complex of Ghelamco has received a BREEAM certificate with a grade of ‘Excellent’.
Warehouse & industrial
DHL Supply Chain opened its first warehouse in Poland equipped with AutoStore. The robotised facility in Gorzów Wielkopolski marks the first deployment of the automated system by the company.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni is constructing the third and final building in the Panattoni Park Warsaw West development. The 16,460 sqm facility is being built to meet the needs of XBS Logistics.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz signed a new five-year, EUR 180 mln green loan with Helaba, pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and Berlin Hyp, secured by myhive Warsaw Spire. The office tower offers over 71,000 sqm of GLA and holds a BREEAM Excellent certification.
Warehouse & industrial
Garbe Industrial Real Estate is leasing its last available plot in Niedersachsenpark Rieste to a provider of logistics services. The company plans to use an 11,500-sqm hall there to store and handle components for the process chain of a car manufacturer.
Office & mixed-use development
Insignis concept store, a furniture retailer, has rented space on the ground floor of The Bucharest Business Park. Three other companies that sell furniture have recently rented sales spaces in office buildings in the northern area of Bucharest, the total area exceeding 10,000 sqm.
Eurobuild CEE
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Office & mixed-use development
According to a report 'Office Market in Warsaw in Q1-Q3 2024', published by Axi Immo, developer activity in the Warsaw office space market is progressively increasing. More than 70,000 sqm finished by the end of September 2024 and around 280,000 sqm under construction in the coming years, demonstrate that investors and developers are moving the industry forward.
Office & mixed-use development
GTC, in collaboration with The Shire Beyond Coworking, is opening a new coworking space in Kraków's Korona Office Complex.
Hotels
S Immo has successfully completed a sale of the Juliš Hotel in Prague, with a total leasable area of around 6,700 sqm.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has been granted a loan for the development of a new distribution centre for a leading retailer. The EUR 36.5 mln loan was granted by BNP Paribas.
Office & mixed-use development
Strabag PFS has moved into the Eurocentrum Alfa office building in Warsaw, owned by CPI Property Group Poland. The lease agreement is for over 1,000 sqm.
Office & mixed-use development
According to “Office Occupier – Warsaw Office Market, Q1-Q3 2024”, a report published by Newmark Polska, in the Q3 of 2024, both leasing and development activity on the Warsaw office market remained largely consistent with the levels recorded in the previous quarter.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni Saudi Arabia and Bahrain-based GFH Financial Group (GFH) have today announced the creation of a strategic partnership for the development of 500,000 sqm of logistics facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Investment & finance
Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs has sold its last remaining project in Russia, the Airportcity St. Petersburg, and is therefore no longer active in the Russian market.
Retail & leisure
The results of the CBRE European Retail Occupier Survey 2024 suggest the retail sector and regional economy overall approach the end of a challenging period. The study includes responses from over 60 global retailers with a store network of over 130,000 locations, and shows that 71 pct of retailers planning to increase their number of physical stores intend to do so in markets where they are already present.
Office & mixed-use development
A pharmaceutical company has leased 6,000 sqm in the GTC-owned Sterlinga Business Center office building in Łódź. This is the largest office deal in Łódź in 2024.
Investment & finance
Revetas Group has announced the successful disposal of the Trinity One class-A office complex in Warsaw to Longvilliers. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Office & mixed-use development
Cushman & Wakefield has summarised the situation on the Warsaw office market for Q3 2024. Office take-up, both in leasing volumes and transaction numbers, was comparable to that recorded in the same period in 2023. Meanwhile, muted development activity, falling vacancy rates and shrinking land availability are likely to encourage investors to launch redevelopment projects.
Investment & finance
Poland’s highly skilled workforce, growing pool of environmentally compliant buildings and developed IT services market make it an attractive destination for foreign investors who want to shorten their supply chains, according to experts on nearshoring at law firm DLA Piper.
Office & mixed-use development
Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego has decided to extend its lease agreement for 13,600 sqm of office space in Varso Place. The company occupies five floors of the building.
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation programme across its European business park portfolio.
Real estate investor and fund manager Cromwell Property Group has secured a EUR 66 mln green loan for the 61,000 sqm Janki shopping centre on the southern outskirts of Warsaw.
Pad Res, a joint venture between Griffin Capital Partners and Kajima Europe, is to build two photovoltaic farms in Pomerania with a total capacity of 117 megawatts.
German asset manager KGAL Investment Management is to establish a joint venture to build four solar and wind parks with specialist Polish developer Lasuno for its KGAL ESPF 5 impact fund.
The newly constructed warehouse, which has expanded CTPark Prague West, has been certified as the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the Czech Republic according to ‘BREEAM New Construction’ standards, with a record score of 92.1 pct. The building is home to Rhenus Logistics, which uses it as a cross-dock for its pan-European network for collection services and warehousing.
Owned by the Capital Park Group, the Warsaw mixed use complex Norblin Factory has received the final BREEAM certificates for both its office and retail sections. A photovoltaic system has been installed in the complex, and the managers are continuing their efforts to steadily reduce the property’s carbon footprint.
Energy consumption reduced by almost 48 pct, almost 4 mln litres of water saved in a year and CO2 emissions reduced by more than 3,900 tonnes - these are the savings generated by the Warsaw P180 office building, developed by Skanska in Warsaw by the Wilanowska metro station. The investment has just received LEED Core & Shell certification at the Platinum level.
Docks Bruxsel in Brussels has received a CO2 neutrality certificate from CO2logic/South Pole. It is the first large shopping centre in Europe to receive this certification.
Panattoni has received an "Outstanding" rating under the BREEAM International New Construction system for Panattoni Park Szczecin III halls A and B. This is the first such high level of certification in the industrial real estate market in Poland for a newly built investment.
CA Immo has concluded 45 lease agreements with a total of nearly 29,000 sqm of office space in Warsaw in the past year, 20 pct of which in Q4 of 2022. The company has also introduced a green lease initiative in 2022, governing mutual commitment of landlord and tenant to optimize sustainable building operations. Since May 2022, 23 green lease agreements have already been concluded.
.Ktw II office building, developed by TDJ Estate, has been certified BREEAM at the Excellent level. The document is the final assessment of the investment's environmental impact. The building achieved a score of 80.6 pct.
Globalworth received 47 various ESG related certifications for its Romanian portfolio in 2022, among them LEED, BREEM, WELL Health & Safety and Access4you accreditations.
Panattoni is supporting the upcycling of the machinery used to generate green energy. In 15 of its locations environmentally friendly outdoor furniture made from former wind turbines can already be found, and in 2023 similar furniture is to appear in another 100 locations.
Futureal’s Etele Plaza in Budapest has received BREEAM 'Very Good' certification in the retail category.
Bilfinger Tebodin has completed work on a 27 MW wind farm in Kostomłoty in the South-West of Poland. The investment was carried out by Polenergia, Poland's largest private energy group.
Ghelamco has completed its first three photovoltaic farms as part of its programme to achieve energy neutrality, announced in May 2022. The installations, with a capacity of nearly 3 MW, were built in three locations in the Opole region.
C3, the Circular Construction & Technology Center project in Bremen is the Strabag’s first competence centre for sustainable circularity. It will be focused on resource reprocessing, it will be energy self-sufficient and climate neutral.
Czech developer CTP has obtained the first BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification – the highest possible level – of its Romanian portfolio for the Clubhaus multifunctional building, part of the CTPark Bucharest West industrial park.
The fifth floor of the Spark C building in Warsaw, which houses the head office of the Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region, has just been obtained a renewal of its Well Commercial Interior certificate. This is the first such recertification in Poland and the CEE region, and the second in Europe.
All 17 properties in the Polish portfolio of Romanian developer Globalworth have obtained Well Health-Safety Rating certification.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
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