
Vorige EXPO REAL 2022 dynamic as always
As traditional on the last day of the EXPO REAL we invited female decision-makers, public administrators and high strategic professionals from the real estate and construction sector to meet each other. This year, we talked about sustainable inner-city area development with experts on this theme Christin Herzberg (Head of ESG at Catella) and Jozien Timmers (Head of Architecture Department at MRP Development).
Christin talked us through the process of creating an ESG strategy for Catella and the difficulties involved. According to Christin, a lot of companies talk about ESG, but don’t know what it actually is. Not helping is the fact that ESG is full of acronyms and a jungle of regulations, standards and reporting.
For Catella, they created a long-term vision regarding ESG, focusing on the following:
Underpinned by 10 long-term goals, they structurally work towards this vision.
Christin: “We need to be knowledgeable about the impact and responsibility we have on the society and environment we act within, and we equally need to understand how sustainability impacts our business.”
Furthermore, she told us about how the Catella Project Management adapts the ESG strategy on a practical level with the project Seestadt as an example (a project with 2,000 apartments as well as offices, a hotel and various service facilities at Mönchengladbach’s main railway station and in the immediate vicinity of the city centre). The idea behind this project is creating holistic neighbourhoods (15-minute city) and high-quality living space for all generations and income classes. Their goals:
Within the project, they have several environmental and social concepts focusing on the future of living. They believe the 15-minute city is the ideal solution as both environmental and social aspects are brought together.