ESG
ČEZ ESCO and CTP have launched a strategic cooperation in the field renewable energy. CTP intends to equip the roofs of selected parks with photovoltaic power plants in the coming years.
Public buildings
Echo Investment and its subsidiary Archicom have started the construction of a primary school for 450 pupils on ul. Konstruktorska in the Służewiec sub-district of Warsaw’s Mokotów district.
Eurobuild FM
Welcome to another episode of Eurobuild FM! This time Natalia Paszkowska of WWAA Architekci and Nicklas Linberg of Echo Investment tell us all about their latest (and rather unusual) project: a primary school being built by the developer in what was traditionally one of Warsaw’s office districts – Służewiec.
Technology
The renovated Saski Crescent office building has proven to be fully prepared for challenges in terms of technological requirements. The building's full digital connectivity has been confirmed by the highest level of the WiredScore rating – Platinum.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has launched the construction of City Logistics Kraków III, a project comprising 25,000 sqm. Walraven, an international producer of installation fixings, is to occupy almost 4,500 sqm.
ESG
According to experts at the Urban Land Institute, changing trends in the office, retail, and hotel markets are making commercial adaptive reuse not just an option, but often a necessity.
Office & mixed-use development
Globalworth announces the extension of its lease agreement with Philips for space in the Company House I building. The transaction also entails the remodelling of the office in collaboration with Globalworth Poland’s Workplaces department.
Investment & finance
Mitiska REIM has completed the sale of 25 retail parks in Romania to LCP Group, part of M Core, for EUR 219 mln. This is one of the largest retail real estate transactions in Romania.
Investment & finance
As previously announced, Cavatina has purchased a site located in the centre of Warsaw at ul. Chmielna 75. The transaction amounts to more than PLN 145 mln. The group intends to develop a mixed-use project in this location, with a predominantly residential function.
Investment & finance
Estonian renewable energy company and independent energy producer Sunly is planning to build six solar parks in Latvia with a total capacity of 52 MW. The construction is financed by Swedbank with EUR 22 mln. This is Swedbank’s biggest contribution to the solar park sector in Latvia.
Eurobuild FM
Welcome to a special episode of Eurobuild FM! This short podcast featuring Andrzej Dużyński also includes the announcement of an extensive interview with the head of Ideal Idea that will be published in a few days in the Christmas issue of Eurobuild CEE magazine. We invite you to both listen in and read the article!
Office & mixed-use development
Energy sector services and supplies group Eximprod is relocating its Bucharest office to the Equilibrium 2 building in the same city.
Warehouse & industrial
Romanian online shipping company FAN Courier has leased 10,000 sqm – the last available space – in VGP Park Arad in western Romania.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni's development of a 32,000 sqm logistics centre for DHL Parcel in Robakowo near Poznań is now close to completion. It is set to be the developer’s third industrial project in Poland to be awarded BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification.
Eurobuild FM
Welcome to Eurobuild FM! Anna Watkowska, a member of Okam City's management board and the project leader of the FSO Park development in Warsaw, talks exclusively for our podcast about the largest planned residential investment in the city. Check out at what stage this spectacular project has now reached.
Warehouse & industrial
Topband Smart Europe, a Chinese company that manufactures controllers for power tools, white goods and BMS systems, has started operations at CTPark Timişoara. The tenant's production facility occupies app. 11,000 sqm.
Office & mixed-use development
Lux Med Group has extended its lease at EPP-managed O3 Business Campus in Kraków. The tenant occupies almost 2,200 sqm in the building.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has started the construction of the first hall within Panattoni Park Łódź West II, which will occupy 70,630 sqm. Almost half of this space will be taken up by Rohlig Suus Logistics.
Investment & finance
S Immo successfully concluded the disposal of the Eurocenter office building in Zagreb, Croatia. In addition to offices, the Eurocenter also includes a bank branch and a café and has a gross lettable area of around 9,000 sqm.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP has announced plans to develop a 60,771 sqm logistics park through a partial refurbishment of an existing business park in Krefeld West, Germany.
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.
Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects together with Czech architects OVA have won the competition to redesign a quarter of Vítězné náměstí (Victory ...
Polish construction company Erbud has signed a cooperation agreement with South Korean giant Daewoo Engineering & Construction to jointly implement pr ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni has extended its sponsorship agreement with Poland’s premier golfer, Adrian Meronk. In the first year of Panattoni’s sponsorship, Meronk ach ...
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 ...
ČEZ ESCO and CTP have launched a strategic cooperation in the field renewable energy. CTP intends to equip the roofs of selected parks with photovolta ...
The Eurobuild Award 2023 for Outstanding Contribution to Real Estate went to… Tomasz Lubowiecki, a founder and the chairman of the board at 7R
The grand finale of the 13th Eurobuild Awards is to take place tonight! Join us at the Gala at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel or follow the announceme ...
Welcome to another episode of Eurobuild FM! This time Natalia Paszkowska of WWAA Architekci and Nicklas Linberg of Echo Investment tell us all about t ...
And now we now all the winners! The jurors, tenants and guests of the Gala have made some difficult but well-considered choices. So, let’s meet this y ...
This latest episode of 'Eye to Eye' is hot out of the podcast oven and ready to listen to! Eurobuild’s guest today is Paweł Sapek, the head of Prologi ...
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
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 ...
A new hotel is being built in Kraków. It will be the seventh facility of the AccorInvest/Orbis group in the capital of Malopolska under the Accor bran ...
Michał Masztakowski has taken up the position of the head of the retail agency in Poland at Cushman & Wakefield. He will be responsible for preparing ...
The investment programme until 2030 worth more than PLN 1.5 bln has been approved for Katowice's Wojciech Korfanty Airport. The programme will include ...
Designers from Colliers, under the supervision of architect Kateřina Štenclova, prepared the concept for the Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Prague. The ...
Mitiska REIM has completed the sale of 25 retail parks in Romania to LCP Group, part of M Core, for EUR 219 mln. This is one of the largest retail rea ...
Wrocław-based Satoia has acquired a 10 ha plot in Wolbórz from CPD for an undisclosed sum. The land has the potential for the development of an app. 4 ...
Michał Ptaszyński, Country Manager Poland, Logicor, tells us optimistically about the future of the logistics industry in Poland, the company's upcomi ...
Globalworth announces the extension of its lease agreement with Philips for space in the Company House I building. The transaction also entails the re ...
Savills is to manage Okam's F.S.O Park development in Warsaw's Żerań district, covering the operation of the existing warehouse and office space.
Echo Investment and its subsidiary Archicom have started the construction of a primary school for 450 pupils on ul. Konstruktorska in the Służewiec su ...
In two years, Finnish developer YIT has built and handed over more than 500 rental units in Warsaw to the Nrep fund. The flats were built in three War ...
In this year's 33rd edition of the Cushman & Wakefield Main Streets Across the World ranking, the Czech Pařížská street has been ranked 11th in Europe ...
The renovated Saski Crescent office building has proven to be fully prepared for challenges in terms of technological requirements. The building's ful ...
Panattoni has launched the construction of City Logistics Kraków III, a project comprising 25,000 sqm. Walraven, an international producer of installa ...
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WeWork
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