SECTORS
Green Value Associates goal is to work with its clients to unlock and enhance value in existing real estate and infrastructure assets through the realisation, among other things, of any greener standard and energy efficiency potential as well as sustainable operational effectiveness.
Office Buildings
When working with Developers in high-profile development projects, Green Value Associates (GVA) objective is to pursue leadership in energy and sustainable design. GVA also showcases the financial benefits on integrating energy efficiency and wellness solutions in high-performance buildings. In large regeneration projects, GVA service proposition encompasses local energy solutions, a departure from the conventional execution approach, which is often (one-way) grid-tied energy supply connection.
In master planning, GVA involves its advisors and experts to align the energy efficiency and sustainability strategy with the development objectives to assure that the design process is not thrown off-course by an added complexity. Additional stages in GVA services include local low carbon energy solutions refinement and potential co-financing partners short-list identification, briefing materials for the design consultants, advisory support during planning and preparation of RFQ from solution providers. To ensure deliverability, GVA provides also support in financial structuring, solutions implementation and construction oversight.
Public Sector
The public sector building market – government, municipalities and regional authorities, universities, schools and hospitals – historically account for the lion’s share of performance-based investments in energy efficiency and operational effectiveness. At the same time, constrained government budgets have made clear to publicly funded bodies and government departments that private sector involvement is crucial for these investments to materialize at the necessary scale.
Therefore, Green Value Associates (GVA) offers advice and guidance to its public sector clients to select the right public private partnerships (PPP) contractual arrangements, funding structures and delivery routes. GVA supports its clients also during the procurement process to choose the appropriate private sector party, who will provide and guarantee the related value added services. GVA also supports its clients to prepare a suitable performance based contract, since conventional construction contracts are not suited for this kind of projects. Any contractual arrangement will need to ensure the private sector party would provide a turnkey service and have the balance sheet to guarantee results.
In arranging project financing, GVA primarily confirms that the retrofit and upgrade capital costs are repaid, at least partially, from the energy and operational savings achieved over the contract term. GVA also helps its clients to seek for project capital in a variety of sources, including European Regional Development Funds (EDRF), International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and dedicated credit lines or even available public revolving loan funds. After securing funding, GVA works with its public sector clients to overcome any remaining bureaucratic barriers that hinder the appropriate private sector involvement in mutually beneficial PPP arrangements.
When considering the technical implementation aspects of energy efficiency and green retrofit measures in existing owned-occupied building assets and facilities, GVA works with technical experts to identify combined opportunities to maximise the reduction of utility, operating and maintenance costs and the improvement of existing infrastructure systems. GVA advises on low carbon technologies and on-site renewable energy solutions that could be repaid entirely with capital collected from generation and savings. GVA also assesses overall reliability and resilience of critical building engineering systems, looking at overall adaptive capacity and vulnerability.
In summary, GVA aims to offer to its public sector clients opportunities for energy and operational efficiency that can lead to cost savings which would open up additional funding for core public programs and needs. To achieve these savings, GVA supports and oversees the implementation of comprehensive localised low carbon energy solutions, green retrofit measures, utility monitoring systems and building enhancement programs that in combination they could improve the overall health, comfort and wellbeing of the public buildings’ occupants and users.
Bottom-line improvement to hotel business
Hotels are unique in regards to their amenities and services offered. Many of the services provided are resource-intensive, resulting in a significant environmental impact during the operational phase.
Therefore, Green Value Associates (GVA) effort mainly focuses on improving the bottom line by integrating resource efficient practices and eliminating wasteful. The goal is to benefit the hotel business not only in operating costs reduction but also in branding, guest loyalty, recruiting and retaining high-calibre motivated employees.
Initially, GVA helps hotel owners and/or operators to understand the environmental and socio-economic context in which they operate, to manage risk and attract investments. GVA team also assesses the project returns of the capital investment based on the expected financial savings, superior commercial value, compliance with regulation and environmental gains.
To foster resource efficiency in a hotel, GVA promotes the most adaptable, practical and cost-effective strategic solutions. These solutions help to increase not only the sustainability of hotel operations but also their positive contributions to biodiversity conservation, cultural heritage preservation and community development.
In a hotel asset portfolio, GVA carries out, always with the support of its corporate partners, a preliminary high level energy and operational assessment in order to pre-select sites with high potential for improvement. This evaluation allows GVA to determine required performance data and prioritise the necessary cost-effective and sustainable measures. GVA supports its clients throughout the implementation process to ensure the proposed measures are executed properly and their efficiency potential is verified.
Residential Development
When working with Developers in high-profile development projects, Green Value Associates (GVA) objective is to pursue leadership in energy and sustainable design. GVA also showcases the financial benefits on integrating energy efficiency and wellness solutions in high-performance buildings. In large regeneration projects, GVA service proposition encompasses local energy solutions, a departure from the conventional execution approach, which is often (one-way) grid-tied energy supply connection.
In master planning, GVA involves its advisors and experts to align the energy efficiency and sustainability strategy with the development objectives to assure that the design process is not thrown off-course by an added complexity. Additional stages in GVA services include local low carbon energy solutions refinement and potential co-financing partners short-list identification, briefing materials for the design consultants, advisory support during planning and preparation of RFQ from solution providers. To ensure deliverability, GVA provides also support in financial structuring, solutions implementation and construction oversight.
Infrastructure & Energy
Green Value Associates (GVA) offers a well informed strategic approach to energy efficiency, wellness and operational effectiveness to corporate occupiers to save substantially on their building utility bills and operating costs as well as to improve their occupants productivity, health and wellbeing. And for the strategy to be most effective, GVA examines how the properties in use are operated daily to implement best practice sustainability initiatives with a positive environmental impact.
GVA recognises that tenants are very often the determining factor of whether sustainability efforts will succeed or fail, so it makes sure they support and participate in any building performance improvement project. True tenant engagement requires collaboration. Therefore, GVA focuses on the “low hanging fruits” to push tenants in the right direction and involve them in the process.
At the same time, a growing number of organizations are focusing on healthier workplace environments, not just to earn more green awards but to reduce employee stress, improve occupants productivity and encourage creativity. GVA finds consequently ways to measure and support this trend placing focus is on employees’ well-being, workplace satisfaction and retention.
Improve Knowledge
Improve knowledge and control of utility consumption.
Reduce Energy
Reduce occupied buildings' energy, operating and maintenance costs.
Increase Space Occupancy
Increase occupied buildings' space occupancy and usage productivity.
Increase tenants well-being
Increase tenants well-being and satisfaction.
Improve Retention
Reduce employees absenteeism and improve retention.