Material Passport

The Materials Passport is a tool that documents the detailed composition of materials in a building, facilitating their management as a materials bank. This technical documentation identifies, locates and quantifies all components, assessing their origin, toxicity, recyclability and environmental footprint, allowing their value to be maximised throughout the building's life cycle.

What is it for?

• Identification and traceability: Documents construction materials and products, ensuring transparency throughout the value chain.
• Circular resource management: Facilitates planning for deconstruction and selective dismantling, minimising waste generation.
• Value recovery: Enables quantification and recovery of the residual economic value of materials at the end of their life cycle.
• Regulatory risk management: Anticipates regulatory changes related to waste and material toxicity, improving adaptability.​

Life cycle analysis

LCA is a methodology that assesses the environmental impacts of a building throughout all its stages, from the extraction of raw materials to its demolition or dismantling and the subsequent management of the resulting materials, following standardised methodologies such as ISO 14040/14044 and providing a comprehensive view of the impact.

What is it for?

• Identification of environmental hotspots: Detect materials and processes with the greatest impact to prioritise effective improvement strategies.
• Objective comparison of alternatives: Evaluate different design and material options using consistent quantitative criteria.
• Circular design optimisation: Visualise the potential impact of strategies from design to dismantling.
• Performance verification: Provide data to comply with regulations and certifications that require life cycle assessments.

Benefits

• Data-driven decision making
• Reduced environmental impact
• Verifiable communication
• Regulatory anticipation

 

Carbon footprint, water footprint, biodiversity

This service measures the environmental impact of the project in three critical dimensions: carbon emissions, water consumption, and impact on ecosystems. Using internationally recognised methodologies, it provides accurate data on these key sustainability indicators, considering the entire life cycle of the building from the origin of the materials to the end of its life.​

What is it for?

• Carbon footprint: allows the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) generated in a construction project throughout its entire life cycle to be calculated, thereby measuring its impact on climate change.
• Water footprint: measures the volume of fresh water used from the extraction of raw materials to construct a building until the end of its life, including the use and operation phases.
• Biodiversity footprint: Measures the impact of construction on local ecosystems and those related to the material supply chain, quantifying the impact on the biodiversity of species and habitats.

Benefits

• Reduction of environmental impacts.
• Competitive advantage.
• Optimisation of resources.
• Mitigation of reputational risks.

Circular building

Building as a material bank

A building contains different components and materials that, when properly designed and installed, can be removed without contaminating the environment and maintaining their value, so that they can be incorporated into other spaces after their first cycle of use. To this end, thanks to material intelligence, the types, quantities, health and circularity indicators, installation systems and economic value of the different materials will be identified. This analysis will result in a quantification of the value of the building as a library (or bank) of components and materials with a positive impact.​

Benefits

• Minimise waste
• Propose more sustainable, healthy and circular alternatives, such as local and reused products, Cradle to Cradle Certified products or products with better environmental performance
• Maximise the value of the building after use, thanks to reusable materials and circular construction models
• Facilitate alignment with and anticipation of European regulations (e.g. selective dismantling)​

Decarbonised and efficient building

The asset-focused decarbonisation plan is a technical and strategic roadmap for progressively reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with a real estate asset or portfolio of assets. This plan is based on an analysis of the building's energy consumption, materials and systems throughout its life cycle, establishing specific measures to achieve climate neutrality (Net Zero) and reduce its impact in line with European decarbonisation targets for 2030 and 2050.

What is it for?

• Assess the current carbon footprint of the asset (operational and embedded)
• Define realistic and technically feasible emission reduction scenarios
• Identify improvement measures in energy efficiency, electrification, renewable energies, low-carbon materials, etc.
• Establish an implementation schedule and a progress monitoring model, identifying key priority actions with the best impact vs. cost
• Align the asset with regulatory and financial frameworks, such as the European Taxonomy, CSRD, SFDR, or standards such as GRESB, CRREM and SBTi​

Benefits

• Effective reduction of GHG emissions
• Compliance with current and future regulations, avoiding regulatory and economic risks
• Greater competitiveness of the asset in the market, with better perception by investors, tenants and users
• Access to sustainable financing and improved ESG performance of the portfolio
• Increased residual value of the asset by adapting to future demand for sustainable and resilient buildings
• Clear and measurable roadmap towards climate neutrality, with monitoring indicators​

Selective disassembly

This is a technical service that consists of the identification, classification and qualitative assessment of the materials present in an asset undergoing demolition, in order to study their potential for reuse or recycling. A specific Materials Passport is drawn up for the dismantling phase, complying with the requirements of national (Law 7/2022) and European regulations on waste and the circular economy.​

Benefits

• Optimisation of design based on existing resources, promoting the reuse of materials.
• Obtaining accurate metrics on environmental impact reduction during the demolition phase.
• Increasing the percentage of waste recovery.
• Facilitating regulatory compliance and improving the environmental performance of the project.​

Sustainability Project Manager

This is a comprehensive technical support service that ensures the proper integration of sustainability objectives in all phases of a real estate project: from initial planning and design to construction, delivery, and commissioning of the asset.

The sustainability manager acts as a key liaison between the architecture, engineering, construction, property and specialist consultant teams, ensuring consistency between the company's ESG strategy and the practical implementation of sustainable measures in the project.​

What is it for?

• To incorporate sustainability criteria across the board and realistically into design and construction processes.
• To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and environmental certifications (LEED, BREEAM, VERDE, Taxonomy, Level(s), etc.).
• To coordinate and supervise the fulfilment of environmental, social and economic objectives, facilitating decision-making and ensuring traceability.
• To anticipate environmental and regulatory risks by proposing technical and strategic solutions.
• To align all project stakeholders around a common vision of sustainability.​

Benefits

• Improved environmental and social performance of the asset from early stages.
• Cost optimisation, thanks to the identification of high-impact, low-cost measures during the design phase.
• Access to sustainable financing.
• Greater value and resilience of the asset in the market, aligned with current demands from investors, users and regulators.
• Facilitation of environmental certifications and compliance with corporate sustainability strategies.​

Support for LEED, BREEAM, WELL, DGNB certifications, etc.

Sustainability Certification Support is a specialised technical service that guides project teams throughout the process of assessing, verifying and certifying the sustainability of an asset in accordance with internationally recognised standards such as LEED, BREEAM, VERDE, DGNB, WELL and Fitwel, among others.​ Includes:

• an initial pre-assessment
• detailed analysis of all criteria required by each certification system
• compilation of evidence and documentation
• interaction with design and construction teams
• management of the process until certification is obtained.​

Benefits

• Establish measurable and achievable sustainability objectives from the early stages of the project.
• Identify areas for improvement and correct deviations before the official presentation of the project to the certifying body.
• Reduction of operating costs, thanks to greater efficiency in energy, water, materials and waste management.
• Obtain a nationally or internationally recognised seal that endorses the project's commitment to sustainability.
• Improve the reputational positioning of the developer or owner by demonstrating responsible management of the built environment.
• Increase the market value of the asset, improving its attractiveness to investors, tenants and end users.
• Compliance with regulatory or financing requirements, especially in the case of funds that require alignment with ESG criteria or European Taxonomy.
• Facilitation of green financing processes, thanks to clear and documented technical traceability of the asset's performance.​