Committed to industry leadership and standards
Achievements
LEED
We have 300,000 sq ft of offices within our portfolio certified to LEED Gold or Platinum.
RESET Air Certification
Our head office building in Dublin was the first office in the city to achieve RESET Air Certification in 2019.
Wired Scored
We have 1,000,000 sq ft of offices within our portfolio Wired Scored certified
WELL Gold
In 2018, our head office building became the first WELL Certified Gold office in Dublin, and the second in Ireland.
UNPRI
In 2019, IPUT was the first Irish property company to sign up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
Green Facility
In 2020, IPUT signed a new €300 million revolving credit facility that included a €200 million green component – the largest green facility of its kind in the Irish real estate market.
Industry associations
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark is an annual assessment of environmental, social and governance performance of property companies. IPUT was the first Irish entity to participate in 2016, and each year we strengthen our GRESB performance.
IPUT signed the UN-led Principles for Responsible Investment in 2019, the first Irish property company to do so. The six principles for responsible investment encourage actions to incorporate ESG issues into investment activities, helping to develop a more sustainable global financial system.
IPUT is a member of the Irish Green Building Council, which is affiliated with the World Green Building Council. It brings together organisations from the entire value chain of the built environment to accelerate Ireland’s shift to a more sustainable built environment.
IPUT is a supporter of the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. TCFD recommendations were established in 2015 to increase transparency of reporting on financially material climate-related risks and opportunities.
Advancing Net Zero is the World Green Building Council’s global programme to drive the transition towards total decarbonisation of the buildings and construction sector by 2050. IPUT became a signatory of the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment in 2020 and launched its 2030 pathway to net zero carbon in 2021.
We are part of C-Change, a ULI-led programme formed in 2021 to bring together industry experts to mobilise the real estate industry as we transition towards a low carbon future.
Science-based targets provide companies with a clearly defined pathway to future-proof growth by specifying how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The Science Based Targets initiative champions science-based target setting as a powerful way of boosting companies’ competitive advantage in the transition to the low-carbon economy. It is a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
