What we do

Green Property Alliance

The BPF is an active member of the Green Property Alliance and provides its Secretariat.

The Green Property Alliance was established to promote cross industry communication on the increasingly significant and complex subject of sustainability.

The objectives of the group are:

• To provide the primary framework for the members to share information about their sustainability projects and, where possible, to achieve collective buy-in to their implementation
• To avoid duplication and play to the strengths of particular members whose work can then be used for the benefit of the other members
• Where gaps in coverage by members’ work are identified, to commission specific projects to fill those gaps
• To present, where possible, a united front in negotiations with Government and other agencies on those issues relating to sustainability where the Alliance has decided to take a collective view
• To provide a mechanism for coherent and co-ordinated property industry interaction with other sustainability bodies both in the UK and overseas
• To communicate to Government, other public sector bodies, members, media and, where appropriate, the wider public the initiatives being taken by the industry to improve its sustainability performance

Member Organisations Include:

• British Property Federation
• Better Buildings Partnership
• British Retail Consortium
• British Council for Offices
• British Council of Shopping Centres
• CoreNet
• Investment Property Forum
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• UK Green Building Council

Current and Past Initiatives Include:

• Working with the Global Reporting Initiative to develop a sector supplement for the property industry
• The establishment of an industry led measurement and metrics working group to establish common metrics for reporting sustainability performance including energy, carbon, waste and water.
• Determining guidance for landlords and tenants concerning the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme