No matter if it’s a shopping mall, hotel or office – when it comes to commercial real estate, there’s always a need for smarter and better maintenance, longer building life span, smaller environmental footprint and better indoor climate – in other words, we are talking about GREEN buildings.
The demand for making buildings green is only rising – it is driven by global warming, environmental regulations, growing focus on occupant health and most certainly booming energy prices.
An internationally acknowledged method to prove your commercial building’s sustainability is sustainability certification. One of the most prominent is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). It is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and also the most widely used green building rating system in the world.
Activation of different R8tech services gives a big push in obtaining a LEED certificate for your commercial real estate – as about 1/3 of the total possible LEED points are directly related to our services.
An example: Viru Keskus, a shopping centre in Tallinn, which initially obtained O&M Silver certification in 2015, but after further initiatives, including adoption of the R8 Digital Operator in 2017, it skipped the O&M Gold and jumped directly to LEED O&M Platinum in 2019 – an article about it can be found here, click.