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Sustainable Real Estate

An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Sustainable Real Estate

ESG and Sustainability Policies and Best Practices in Real Estate

NASBA
Classroom Schedule
Date Venue Fees
11 - 15 May 2026 London $ 5,950
09 - 13 Nov 2026 London $ 5,950
Online Schedule
Date Venue Fees
09 - 13 Nov 2026 Online $ 3,950

Course Summary

This GLOMACS Sustainable Real Estate training course is designed to enable delegates to integrate the rising importance of ESG for real estate. This training course provides a route map for developers and investors to capitalise on recent trends in legislation, regulation, investor and lender appetite, measurement and reporting to maximise the value outcome from the investment in ESG practices that is now essential for highly rated and outperforming real estate organisations.

The delegates will study how ESG and sustainability have risen to their current importance, compare their role in other industries (the tenants of real estate) and examine such important current issues as the latest legislation worldwide. The delegates will learn how ESG and sustainability work in practice across a wide range of assets including offices, hotels, warehouses and business parks, factories, and residential complexes at real estate companies, both developers and investors.

Course Outline
Day 1

Policies and Drivers

  • Environmental concerns and real estate
    • The rise of Net Zero
    • The contribution of real estate to environmental issues
    • ESG legislation for real estate in the Gulf
  • The social impact of real estate
    • CSR and Social Impact policies for developers
      • Local procurement
      • Labour standards and working conditions
      • The creation and maintenance of communities 
      • Tenancy mix
      • Diversity and inclusion
    • CSR and Social Impact for real estate investors
    • Integration of Islamic social finance with CSR for real estate
Day 2

Risk and Governance

  • Risk analysis for real estate development
    • A risk typology for real estate
    • Identifying and measuring risks
    • Risk management tools and their use in practice
  • Governance for developers
    • The legislative and regulatory framework for corporate governance in the Gulf – a global comparison
    • The EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive and its analogues in the Gulf 
    • Best practices for governance: real estate developers
      • Board and executive structures
      • Workforce issues
      •  Transparency and reporting
    • Worldwide evidence on developer governance
  • LP and GP governance
    • Private equity governance guidelines in the Gulf, UK and worldwide
Day 3

ESG Measurement and Reporting Tools, Techniques and Standards

  • ESG measurement for real estate
    • Measuring ESG for developers and construction companies
      • Energy use and control
      • HVAC analytics
      • Water and waste management
      • Biodiversity
      • Tracking material use: analysing embedded carbon and other issues for the real estate supply chain
      • Governance – tax, corruption, and data privacy
      • Lifecycle costing
      • Sectoral differences (residential, industrial, retail, office and others)
      • Reviewing global evidence for the range of potential and actual ESG variables for developers and investors
  • ESG reporting for real estate
        • Comparing reporting indicators across jurisdictions
        • Measuring transparency for real estate investors 
        • Portfolio analysis: best practice benchmarking
          • GRESB reporting
          • SECR reporting
          • ESOS reporting
          • ECORE 
          • SBTi reporting
        • Conforming to ESG standards
          • UN SDGs
          • The UN PRI
          • UN Global Compact
  • Reporting according to GRI requirements
            • Analysis of the GRI requirements for sustainability reporting
            • How to report using the GRI standards(
            • Examples of GRI real estate reporting
            • Integrating other standards relevant to the energy sector into sustainability reporting using the GRI, including:
              •  ESRS
              • ISSB
              • UNSDG
            • People, places and progress: reporting social initiatives
  • Certification, benchmarking and reporting frameworks at asset portfolio and corporate level
  • Property green standards for construction and investment: evolution and benchmarking, including:
    • LEED / BREEAM / REEB / NABERS / EDGE / WELL / Fitwel / Energy Star / ISO 14001 / Estidama / Mostadam
Day 4

Implementation of ESG Policies for real estate developers and investors

  • Implementation
    • The role of data collection
    • Utilisation of tools (e.g., CREEAM Risk Assessment)
    • Integrating ESG into BIM and GIS software
    • Predictive maintenance and the wider ESG perspective on Facilities Management 
    • Management of ESG implementation
    • Key challenges and obstacles from a decade of ESG real estate implementation
    • Overcoming greenwashing in ESG implementation
    • ESG qualifications for real estate
    • Interaction with development teams
  • Financing
    • The design and scope of green bonds
    • Bank green lending practices for real estate
    • Green leases
    • Integration of Islamic finance and green financing
Day 5

ESG Impact on Real Estate

  • Impact measurement
    • Financing costs and ESG performance for real estate developers and investors
    • The emergence of real estate ESG rating
    • Developer ESG policies and valuation
    • ESG and retention rates
    • Impact on rental rates, capital values and yields in the Gulf 
    • Construction and development companies, ESG and share prices
    • ESG, property value and investment performance
    • Translation of ESG scoring to portfolio performance and value
    • E, S, and G – evidence on the relative contribution of each to financial performance
  • The future trajectory of ESG and real estate
Certificates
  • On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.
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