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Our approach to CSR

Our Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy is focused on three main areas: reducing our environmental footprint, strengthening our stakeholder relationships and continuing to grow into a sustainable organisation that leads the healthcare real estate sector in Europe.

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Our Portfolio

Reducing environmental impact operational costs and risks
  • 7 - Affordable and clean energy
    7 - Affordable and clean energy
  • 12 - Responsible consumption and production
    12 - Responsible consumption and production
  • 13 - Climate action
    13 - Climate action

Actions:

  • Measuring and reducing environmental impact
  • Minimizing risks (safety, technical, materials etc.)
  • Complying with (future) building regulations
  • Optimising internal comfort
  • Stimulating eco-efficient investments by operators and/or third parties
  • Meeting needs of future senior housing

Goals:

  • Achieving net zero emissions for the real estate portfolio by 2050
  • Applying Building Assessment (BA) strategy to 100% of our properties in operation by 2025
  • Undertaking a climate change risk assessment in 2023
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Our partners

Strenghthening relationships within the healthcare real estate sector
  • 3 - Good health and well-being
    3 - Good health and well-being

Actions:

  • Optimising relationships with operators
  • Sharing knowledge in healthcare sector concerning sustainable real estate
  • Connecting with our communities and better understand the needs of clients and operators
  • Being the leading healthcare real estate investor in Europe that cares about its residents

Goals:

  • Increasing the response rate of operators participating in engagement survey
  • Implementing a green awareness programme for tenants
  • Organising Operator Days in each region every three years
  • Organising annual Community Days for employees
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Our organisation

Being a leader in the healthcare real estate sector
  • 5 - Gender equality
    5 - Gender equality

Actions:

  • Investing in the training and development of our team
  • Having a robust Health & Well-being programme in place
  • Remaining attractive for future healthcare real estate experts
  • Meeting ethical standards at its core foundation
  • Providing a working environment for a diverse workforce
  • Having governance policies and procedures in place

Goals:

  • Rolling out the Aedifica Academy to all regions
  • Organising an annual employee satisfaction survey
  • Mandatory annual ethics training for employees
  • Implementing a health & well-being programme in our offices

Monitor the progress we make towards our goals in our environmental data report.

Net zero GHG pathway

Aedifica commits to achieving net zero emissions for its entire portfolio by 2050 to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement and thus contribute to addressing the climate crisis. Reducing the impact of global warming will largely depend on further eliminating greenhouse gas emissions as a result of energy consumption. Net zero greenhouse gas emissions do not only refer to direct emissions, but also to indirect emissions. Aedifica’s greatest challenge will be to reduce GHG emissions from energy consumed by its operators and residents.

In order to achieve climate neutrality, Aedifica will be implementing a net zero GHG pathway addressing every aspect of our business activities. Each of these activities contributes to our goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This will be a challenging journey in which collaboration and knowledge sharing within the industry is essential. Aedifica is committed to accompanying its stakeholders on this journey.

Business activities Actions to take this decade
Development
  • Perform life cycle assessments
  • Implement sustainable development guidelines
  • Introduce a building passport to measure embodied carbon
Acquisitions and divestments
  • Perform ESG assessment acquisitions
  • Use CRREM-based pathways
Standing investments
  • Roll out Building Assessment tool
  • Benchmark performance
  • Set country and asset level targets
  • Green investments
Collaborate with operators
  • Roll out green lease contracts and educate operators
  • Organise Operator Days
  • Implement smart meters
Management operations
  • Monitor and off-set carbon impact
  • Educate employees
  • Update green travel policies

Pathway to net zero GHG emissions European healthcare sector1

1. Bandwidth here shows combined pathways committed by the different governments for the healthcare sector in their countries (the 8 countries Aedifica is active) as part of the Paris Accord, expressed in net energy use intensity (kWh/m2).

Carbon neutral offices

Aedifica is conscious of its CO2 emissions. We support certified climate projects in order to offset the carbon footprint of our offices, achieving CO2-neutrality. For this effort, Aedifica obtained the CO2-NEUTRAL label (in line with the PAS 2060, international standard for CO2-neutrality) 3 years in a row.

This label guarantees that Aedifica is actively calculating, reducing and compensating its local and global climate impact. This label can only be achieved through serious climate efforts.

In order to offset our 2022 CO2 emissions, we are supporting two projects. The Reforesting Project implements sustainable agricultural practices in Kenya that not only reduce deforestation and improve soil quality, but also provide farmers with a higher and more stable income. The India Wind Project aims to make India less dependent on electricity generated from fossil fuels by building wind turbines.

Aedifica endorses

  • we support the UN global compact

    The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact

    Aedifica supports the TEN PRINCIPLES OF THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT involving the application of sustainable and socially responsible policies in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.

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    The UN Sustainable Development Goals

    All over the world, THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS OF THE UNITED NATIONS are considered to be the best blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for us all. 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 subgoals address the major challenges we face globally. Aedifica applies the SDGs as an overarching framework to shape its sustainability strategy. We selected 4 SDGs to focus our efforts on and aligned our material topics to shape our CSR framework.

Get directions

Do you want to pay us a visit at the office? The coffee is ready, you are more than welcome.

We have made sure that you can easily get to our head office in Brussels by public transport: you can reach us by train, metro, bus and bicycle.

If you come by train, you can get off at the station of Brussels-Luxemburg or Brussels-Central. From there you can easily continue on foot to rue Belliard 40. If you come by international train, you get off at Brussels-South station and take metro line 2 or 6 to Trône/Troon or Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet.

If you come by metro, you can take line 1 or 5 to Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet or Maelbeek/Maalbeek, or you can take line 2 or 6 to Trône/Troon or Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet.

If you come by bus, you can take line 21, 27 and 64 to Trêves/Trier, or line 27, 34, 38, 64, 80 and 95 to Science/Wetenschap.

If you take a villo! sharing bike, you can easily park your bike in the Charlemagne/Karel De Grote bike station right in front of our office.

Of course, you can also reach us by car, but we encourage you to consider the environment and use public transport or other eco-friendly transportation options.