ESG in the real estate industry

ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance criteria. ESG is becoming increasingly important in the real estate industry because regulatory requirements, investor expectations, and market trends are placing the focus on sustainable strategies and reporting. In your day-to-day work in the real estate industry, this means that decisions about real estate, construction projects, or asset management must increasingly be based on ESG criteria in order to reduce risks, exploit opportunities, and secure competitive advantages. This continuing education program prepares you for this in a practical way.

During training, you will learn how ESG and CSR criteria can be integrated as an integral part of a corporate strategy. This includes identifying relevant ESG factors, establishing suitable structures and processes, and recommending actions for managing sustainable real estate activities. These skills will help you make more informed strategic decisions and systematically integrate sustainability.

ESG reporting is becoming increasingly important due to regulatory requirements such as the CSRD. It enables you to demonstrate transparency to stakeholders such as owners, investors, or employees regarding how your company assumes environmental and social responsibility and complies with governance standards. In training , you training specific knowledge about which factors are relevant in ESG reporting and how to implement them in real estate controlling.

Sustainable real estate management not only improves the environmental and social performance of your properties, but can also bring economic benefits, suchaslower operating costs, access to new customer groups, better rental and sales opportunities, and positive effects on property values. The training you training specific practical examples and recommendations for action on how you can exploit this potential.

One focus of the training is how you can meaningfully collect, structure, and use real estate data in the ESG context. This includes inventory data quality, data management, and supporting tools such as BIM. Such data forms the basis for meaningful ESG analyses and strategic decisions that you make in your everyday work.

The training specifically training at decision-makers such as CEOs, managing directors, asset and property managers, project developers, and members of middle management. These individuals face the challenge of developing and implementing sustainable real estate strategies in their everyday work, which is precisely the focus of this training program.

You will receive clear recommendations for action that will help you define responsibilities, adapt processes, and establish structures for sustainable real estate management. This will enable you not only to understand ESG guidelines, but also to integrate them into operational processes and embed them in your team.

A key aspect of the seminar is how ESG strategies can generate competitive advantages. You will learn how sustainable management can help you tap into new customer groups, position yourself as an attractive partner in the market, and create long-term stable value. Practical examples show how these advantages can be realized.

The training a mix of trainer input, best practice examples, discussions, and working aids. This ensures that what you learn can be easily transferred to your everyday working life, as you gain both theoretical knowledge and concrete tools for implementation.

Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of participation and an Open Badge, a digital certificate that you can use on professional networkssuch asLinkedIn. This allows you to make employers ESG skills visible and verifiable to potential customers, colleagues employers .