Coresi Shopping resort obtains the BREEAM Excellent sustainability certificate, a national and regional premiere
Immochan Romania obtains the BREEAM Excellent certificate for its project, Coresi Shopping Resort, located in Brasov, Romania.
2016-05-24 11:19:29
Thus, CORESI becomes the commercial center with the highest sustainability ranking in the country, the first in Romania and the second in Central and Eastern Europe to achieve this exigent certification level. BuildGreen, a leading consultant in the field of sustainable building design, development and certification in CEE, advised the developer the process.
CORESI Shopping Center is the largest urban regeneration project in Romania, proposing inhabitants and tourists in Brasov region, not only a seamless shopping experience, but also a leisure destination, spread over a 70.000 sqm surface.
''We started implementing the BREEAM requirements since the concept phase, being absolutely convinced of the importance that this type of investment has on the long-term, by streamlining operational costs and the positive impact on the entire life cycle of the project. We envisioned a high-quality technical and ecological development, focused mainly on harmonizing the concept with the urban and environmental characteristics of the city", states Tatian Diaconu, General Manager Immochan Romania.
"Coresi Shopping Resort represents an example for the local real estate market and yet another confirmation of the key role that an effective collaboration, between all stakeholders involved in the design, construction and operation of a property, plays in its resulting performance. Starting from the design and analysis phase, we implemented all relevant measures aimed at reaching a higher performance level. Together with the construction and the project management teams, we then monitored the manner in which these solutions were deployed. Due to the support and involvement of Immochan and tenants, all these measures can now be found not only in the common areas, but throughout the entire project. This resulted in the achievement of the superior sustainability performance corresponding to the BREEAM Excellent ranking", explains Razvan Nica, Managing Director BuildGreen.
Immochan Romania was founded in 2012 and presently manages 23 shopping centres. In March 2015, Immochan Romania opened, in Brasov, Coresi, the first Shopping Resort and the first BREEAM certified shopping centre, Excellent level, in Romania. At the end of 2014, Drumul Taberei Commercial Centre was inaugurated in Bucharest. Both projects represented a total investment of 120 million euro.
Founded in 2010, BuildGreen was the first company in Romania to offer sustainable building consulting services and, to date, it is the leading consultant in the field of sustainable development and certification. BuildGreen provides the complete set of consulting services for the design, development and certification of sustainable buildings-from BREEAM and LEED certification services to dynamic simulation modeling, life cycle costing (LCC) and assessment (LCA), as well as full green building design support.