Sustainability Report 2024
Establishing Sustainable Innovations
“Stabilising the climate is the defining challenge of our time. This requires swift and profound action across all areas of the construction and real estate sector. The ecobuilding AG is leading the way.”
Ronald Pofalla, Executive Board
Since its founding, the ecobuilding AG has made it its mission to make real estate project development more sustainable and resource-efficient through innovative solutions and advanced technologies.
With our first Sustainability Report, we outline all of our activities, achievements, and goals related to sustainability for the calendar and financial year 2024. The guiding principle of this report, “Establishing Sustainable Innovations,” clearly reflects what we consider an integral part of the ecobuilding AG’s operations. Our sustainability maxim runs through all areas, guiding our daily actions both on the product side and within the company.
Our Understanding of Sustainability:
Ecological. Economic. Digital.
We aim to shape a sustainable energy future by placing efficiency and environmental protection at the heart of our project planning. Following the principle of “saving before generating,” we integrate climate-friendly building structures, circular materials, and innovative façade systems as early as the planning phase to minimise energy consumption during development, construction, and operation.
With this approach to project planning, we address the ecological, social, and economic challenges of the industry. By not only meeting but exceeding ESG standards, we provide future-proof solutions. Our goal is to develop affordable, functional, and high-quality living spaces that enhance and sustainably preserve the quality of life of the residents, while also making a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Nine Sustainability Topics: Our Missions
Nine of the 17 material topics are the focus of our 2024 Sustainability Report: six explain our sustainability activities on the product level, while three describe our sustainability efforts at the company level.
Renewable energies
We strive to achieve an emission free energy supply with renewable energies using technologies that are individually tailored to each project.
Embodied Carbon
We plan the use of climate-friendly materials and building constructions, incorporating existing structures whenever possible to reduce embodied emissions.
Prefabrication
We create the basis for future construction with prefabrication, reducing costs, time, and material resources through prefabrication of complex building components.
Circular economy
We focus on holistic planning to make a significant contribution to a circular economy and the real estate industry.
Resilience
We take future climate change scenarios into account in our planning approaches, enabling resilient buildings and quarters.
Mobility
We actively support and promote sustainable mobility behaviour among users through our project planning.
Reliable and resilient employer
We create sustainable structures in the company with an open, fair, and transparent human resources policy.
Climate-neutral company
We want to become climate-neutral in our business operations.
Compliance
We stand for strong company-wide compliance, in which rule-compliant behavior is a matter of course for all employees of the ecobuilding AG.
The entire 2024 Sustainability Report of ecobuilding AG is available here as a flipbook for digital browsing and reading: