Sustainability Consulting Switzerland

Would you like to improve your company’s sustainability performance, strengthen your environmental and social responsibility and safeguard your competitiveness in the long term? Then Drees & Sommer Switzerland is the right partner for you. We are your expert for sustainability consulting and offer you customized solutions for your individual challenges. Whether you want to certify your buildings according to recognized green building standards, implement circular approaches, systematically pursue your ESG goals or develop a carbon reduction pathway for your real estate portfolio – we support you from strategy to implementation and beyond.

What will characterize buildings in the future? They will take into account the needs of people as well as environmental and economic requirements. Connectivity, flexibility, circularity, energy efficiency and emissions reduction all play an important role. The key is to take an integrated approach to these requirements and align them with the economic objectives of the property.

Drees & Sommer Switzerland is an expert in the field of sustainability consulting and green building certification and is your partner for all aspects of life cycle engineering. Our experienced consultants and project managers support you from the initial idea through to commissioning. We evaluate your property and its use from an economic, technical and ecological point of view, identify potential savings and optimization opportunities, and develop specific strategies and measures.

The aim of our sustainability consulting is to balance environmental, economic and social requirements. Together with our clients, we develop solutions that take sustainability goals into account while keeping the economic framework of the property in view.

ESG consultation

ESG (environmental, social, governance) takes into account environmental, social and corporate governance criteria in addition to economic factors. Systematically recording and assessing these factors creates transparency around risks and opportunities and provides a basis for long-term corporate and real estate strategies. Drees & Sommer Switzerland is guided by ESG regulations and supports clients in introducing and complying with them. The result is a concrete strategy and plan of measures that is tailored to your needs.

Learn more about ESG consulting

Cradle to cradle and urban mining

The Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) concept describes the principle of continuous biological and technical cycles within the circular economy. The targeted use of circular and low-pollutant materials can help improve material health and the circularity of buildings while keeping resources in circulation over the long term. Drees & Sommer Switzerland advises you on all issues relating to the implementation of the circular economy, be it the handling of raw materials, the purchase or leasing of circular building products, the furnishing of your property, the dismantling of your site/property, or the analysis of buildings for their circularity.

Learn more about cradle to cradle and urban mining

Portfolio management – a clear strategy toward net zero

We conduct a comprehensive portfolio analysis to determine economic potential as well as opportunities to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Together with you, we develop a net-zero strategy tailored to your goals, identify synergies within the portfolio and define specific measures. From strategy to the implementation of individual structural measures, we support you during planning, quality assurance and execution right through to commissioning. At the same time, we show you which innovative supplementary technologies are suitable for your property and develop a roadmap for energy-efficient renovation.

Learn more about portfolio management

Green building certifications

For green building certification, our experts determine the appropriate green building label for your project (Minergie/ECO/P; LEED; BREEAM; SNBS; DGNB; and SSREI at portfolio level) and review the costs, opportunities and risks of the project. We support the certification process and are authorized to certify buildings in accordance with these established systems. This makes defined sustainability criteria for your property transparent and provides a clear basis for investors, users and other stakeholders.

Learn more about green building certifications

Life cycle Engineering

Our life cycle engineering examines and evaluates properties and their use in terms of economic, technical and environmental factors and develops economic optimization strategies. Our technical and economic construction consultancy supports you in keeping the defined project objectives as well as the planned schedule and budget in view.

360° property assessment Analysis

This is an extension of the regular TDD, in which we advise you based on an analysis of other technical areas such as smart buildings, electromobility and net zero, as well as important areas such as social issues and governance. This provides you with a comprehensive basis for decision-making to systematically pursue your sustainability goals and identify relevant risks at an early stage.

Growing sustainability and ESG requirements, regulatory frameworks such as the EU Taxonomy and green building standards present investors and building owners with new challenges. Alongside economic performance, measurable environmental and social criteria, regulatory compliance and the long-term future readiness of real estate are becoming increasingly important.

The question is not if you should act, but how.