OVG Real Estate, the Dutch commercial real estate developer and investor, has created The Edge which was awarded the highest score for an office under BREEAM.
Located in Amsterdam, the building achieved a BREEAM NL New Construction certification of ‘Outstanding’. OVG worked in close partnership with the building’s principle occupier, leading global professional services firm Deloitte. By employing innovative smart technology, the 40,000
square metres (430,000 square foot) Grade A office building achieved a score of 98.36%
Annemarie van Doorn, Director of the Dutch Green Building Council said:“BREEAM stimulates the demand for sustainable projects, classifying buildings according to their environmental impact and rewarding those that go above and beyond the legal requirement. OVG has created an exemplary office building that has exceeded any other that we have rated worldwide to date. Our hope is that other developers will follow this lead and endeavour to create innovative buildings that are in a league with The Edge.”
he Edge was the first building to utilise Philips’ Ethernet-powered LED connected lighting, which enables employees to use an application on their smartphones to regulate the climate and light over their individual workspaces. This innovative technology not only saves businesses money on energy costs, but serves as a means of providing information and data about how the building is running to drive overall efficiency.
The building is also energy neutral. To achieve this, OVG partnered with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) to fit an area of 4,100 square metres (44,132 sq ft) on the school’s rooftops with solar panels. The south façade of The Edge is also fitted with solar panels on all surfaces that are not windows. Furthermore, an aquifer thermal energy storage (approximately 130 m. below the ground) generates all energy required for heating and cooling of the building.
Coen van Oostrom said: “Whilst we are proud that The Edge has set a new benchmark that we hope others will adopt, we will continue to look for new ways to ensure that the buildings we develop are constantly evolving. Sustainability is about more than a great sustainability rating. It is also about a building’s overall comfort and efficiency for its occupiers, so that they can operate with ease in a productive and healthy environment.”
Between 2007 and 2011, OVG invested more than $1billion in sustainable real estate development, a commitment it entered into with the Clinton Global Initiative. At the end of 2011, it made a further commitment to invest its second billion into sustainable development. Coen van Oostrom concluded: “We are passionate about sustainable real estate development and the role it can play in creating improved living and working environments. We want to encourage others who share our entrepreneurial mindset to join our mission to effect positive social, economic and environmental change in major cities worldwide.”
The Edge is owned by Deka Immobilien and the construction finance is executed by ABN AMRO Real Estate Finance. G&S Bouw was the contractor and Deerns the engineering consultant. The BREEAM Assessors for the project were DGMR and the BREEAM Experts, C2N.
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