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  • Energy-efficient refurbishments pay off

    Energy-efficient refurbishments pay off

    In a study,Wüest Partner has analysed the economic viability of energy-efficient renovations to the Swiss residential building stock. Two scenarios were analysed for all 931,000 residential buildings that are not yet sustainably heated, the service provider for the real estate industry explains in a press release on the study. In the first scenario, a comprehensive energy refurbishment was analysed, in the second scenario only the replacement of the heating systems.

    In terms of ecological sustainability, both scenarios fulfil the requirements of the Climate Act, explains Wüest Partner. The property service provider’s experts put the investment requirement up to 2050 at between CHF 52 billion and CHF 228 billion. This is offset by increases in value of between 81 billion francs in the case of pure heating replacement and 168 billion francs in the case of comprehensive energy-efficient refurbishment.

    Replacing heating systems alone is therefore economically attractive across the board. In the case of comprehensive energy-efficient refurbishments, investments and increases in the value of the building stock balance each other out overall. In the case of apartment blocks with rental properties, a good half of the refurbishments can cover the costs. In the case of owner-occupied housing, the financial benefit increases due to the considerable savings in heating costs.

    The falling heating costs also benefit tenants of refurbished properties, as they generally more than compensate for a possible increase in net rents, writes Wüest Partner. “Purely energy-efficient refurbishment of rental flats can therefore be socially acceptable, so that ecological sustainability does not have to stand in the way of social sustainability.”

  • Zurich remains at the top of the Swiss city ranking

    Zurich remains at the top of the Swiss city ranking

    The magazine “ Bilanz ” has published this year’s ranking of the quality of life in Swiss cities. Zurich took first place again and, according to the report , has been the undisputed leader for eleven years. The cities of Zug and Bern took second and third place, followed by Winterthur, Basel and Geneva.

    The city ranking was created by the real estate experts from Wüest Partner for the business magazine “Bilanz” based on several indicators for the quality of life in cities, for example in the areas of the job market, education, leisure and shopping. A total of 162 cities were rated in this way.

    According to the article by “Bilanz”, it hardly seems possible for other cities to break into the absolute top group. In the top 10, only the canton’s capital, Aarau, lost two places and fell from 6th to 8th place. When asked whether other cities even had a chance of making it into the top group, Patrick Schnorf from Wüest Partner was quoted as saying: “It’s impossible It doesn’t.” For example, St.Gallen, which currently ranks 11th, has a chance if the city could increase its educational and cultural offerings as well as its population growth.

    According to Schnorf, Bassersdorf ZH is a counter-example, which has slipped back eleven places. “Compared to other cities, Bassersdorf has not developed as quickly, for example in terms of education and culture,” Schnorf is quoted as saying. According to the ranking, the two economic regions of Zurich and Lake Geneva are the most liveable.

    Since there are only four cities in the top 30 from western Switzerland and Lugano, one in Ticino, it must be said that the overall quality of life in German-speaking Switzerland is higher.

  • Wüest Partner Germany: Establishment of an ESG team

    Wüest Partner Germany: Establishment of an ESG team

    “I am pleased to be able to support Wüest Partner even more intensively from now on,” says Gerhard Hoffmann, the new Director ESG and Sustainability at Wüest Partner Germany . Reconciling ecology and economy using state-of-the-art technologies has always been the primary goal of his work. At Wüest Partner he has the best prerequisites for this. “Now the task is to form an interdisciplinary and highly motivated team of experienced experts.” Above all, in order to strategically and operationally advance the increasingly important topics on the German market, says Hoffmann.

    Many years of expertise in the sustainability segment
     For more than four decades he has been dedicated to his mission of reducing CO2 emissions by developing sustainable energy concepts in the real estate industry. The graduate engineer and graduate industrial engineer is involved in numerous international research and development projects with a focus on regenerative energy supply. He has developed energy concepts for over 900 buildings and worked on more than 1,400 sustainability projects. The licensed BREEAM auditor sits on the working groups of the ZIA Central Real Estate Committee . He is also a member and senior auditor of the DGNB German Sustainable Building Council .

    «Ideal cast for a highly complex market»
    As an independent consultant, Hoffmann has already successfully accompanied the implementation of the Wüest Climate Tool on the German market. In doing so, he “significantly shaped an important milestone in the company’s history,” writes the company. The new position is the logical continuation of a successful collaboration, says Rüdiger Hornung , partner and managing director of Wüest Partner. This is “the decisive step on the way to a sustainable future in the real estate industry”. Hoffmann is the “ideal person to promote sustainability and energy efficiency in our highly complex market, both professionally and personally”.

    Swiss group represented in four countries
    Wüest Partner (founded in 1985), headquartered in Switzerland, currently has eleven locations in four European countries. The Swiss office locations are in Zurich (headquarters), Bern, Geneva and Lugano. In Germany (market entry: 2007) the group has branches in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg and Munich. There are other locations in Paris and Lisbon. The group also owns the two subsidiaries Datahouse and Durable , each with 100 percent ownership.