Advisory & Analysis
Sustainability & ESG
In the real estate market, sustainability has evolved from a voluntary quality statement into a parameter for valuation and financing. As ÖGNI Consultant and EU-Taxonomy Advisor approved by ÖGNI, we support projects from site selection through to verified evidence.
Scope of services
Decided early, effective for the long term.
The ecological and economic quality of a building is largely determined in the early project phases: in the choice of site, building volume, construction and energy concept. The later sustainability requirements are taken into account, the smaller their influence and the higher their cost. We therefore integrate them as early as the site and concept phase.
In the institutional segment, certification has become market standard: in our assessment, more than 80% of new commercial construction projects in Austria have been certified since 2024. Properties without certification are increasingly dropping out of institutional investors’ investment universe – with consequences for liquidity and exit value (brown discount).
A pre-certificate under ÖGNI/DGNB documents the targeted quality already at planning stage – for the municipality, the financing bank and future tenants.
EU Taxonomy
Assessment of the technical screening criteria – substantial contribution to climate change mitigation, do no significant harm (DNSH) and minimum safeguards – and submission for verification to ÖGNI.
ESG due diligence & portfolio analysis
Energy performance, climate risk and vulnerability analysis, and capital expenditure required to comply with decarbonisation pathways (e.g. CRREM) – at acquisition or for existing assets.
Pre-certification & certification ÖGNI/DGNB
Support from the pre-certificate at planning stage to the certificate after completion; submissions are made via licensed ÖGNI auditors.
ESG strategy & sustainable development
Decarbonisation pathways for individual assets and portfolios, planning of measures and investment, and ESG criteria as an integral part of built-to-suit specifications.
Regulations
What determines value and financing today.
EU Taxonomy
Reference framework for classifying “green” financing. Buildings constructed before 2021 require energy performance certificate class A or must rank among the most efficient 15% of the national building stock; new buildings must be at least 10% below the nearly zero-energy building standard.
EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
New buildings must be zero-emission buildings from 2030, public buildings from 2028. Minimum energy performance standards apply to non-residential buildings: the worst-performing 16% of the stock must be renovated by 2030, 26% by 2033. Inefficient assets therefore carry a regulatory risk of devaluation.
ÖGNI/DGNB
What is assessed is not the individual measure but overall performance across the life cycle: environmental, economic, sociocultural and technical quality as well as process and site quality. Award levels Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze; a pre-certificate is possible as early as the planning stage.
Do you need ESG or taxonomy evidence?
We review your property or project and show you the way to compliance evidence.