Exclusive Interview with CREtech London Speaker, Sarah Ratcliffe
NEW! CREtech London 2024
•
15m
Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO of the Better Buildings Partnership, discusses the shift in the real estate sector towards sustainability as a mainstream business issue. She highlights the move from sustainability being an additional extra to now being a core part of business strategy. Ratcliffe also emphasizes the importance of diversity in breathing life back into spaces and places, including diversity of asset types, investments, occupiers, and uses. She envisions future spaces and cities that are accessible, efficient, circular, regenerative, and linked to nature and the needs of local communities.
Takeaways:
- Sustainability has shifted from being an additional extra to a mainstream business issue in the real estate sector.
- Diversity is crucial in breathing life back into spaces and places, including diversity of asset types, investments, occupiers, and uses.
- Future spaces and cities should be accessible, efficient, circular, regenerative, and linked to nature and the needs of local communities.
- Legislation and regulation play a critical role in ensuring the entire real estate sector meets minimum sustainability standards.
Up Next in NEW! CREtech London 2024
-
Exclusive Interview with CREtech Lond...
Caroline Edwards, Development Director at Almacantar, shares her unexpected route into real estate and her passion for development. She discusses the challenges and opportunities in large-scale complex developments in central London. The challenges include viability, rising construction costs, fi...
-
Exclusive Interview with CREtech Lond...
In this conversation, Kat Hanna, Co-Managing Director of Avison Young London, discusses the current state of the real estate market and her career progression. She highlights the positive completion of their refinancing and the sense of cautious optimism in the market. Kat also shares her unconve...
-
Exclusive Interview with CREtech Lond...
In this conversation, Google's geographer and geospatial technologist, Ed Parsons, discusses the role of geography in organizing the world's information. He explains how geography and scale are fundamental in understanding the world around us and how Google uses geography to provide relevant info...
