Fulfilment center achieves BREEAM certification for continued progress

Fulfilment center achieves BREEAM certification for continued progress

3050 Gateway Commerce Center Drive is a distribution centre owned by DEKA USA Property TWO LP and located in rural Illinois.

Overview

This distribution center achieved BREEAM In-Use certification, using the process to document its sustainability credentials and build a foundation for future progress. This was a key part of the client’s sustainability strategy. Having overcome various challenges to assessment, 3050 Gateway achieved its target and has implemented a number of features to enhance the overall health and wellbeing of its occupants.

About

DEKA USA Property TWO LP manages the building on behalf of Deka Immobilien-Nordamerika, which brings together the Deka Group’s real estate investment specialists.

Background

3050 Gateway Commerce Center Drive, Edwardsville, IL is a 717,250 sq f distribution and fulfilment center owned by DEKA USA Property TWO LP on behalf of the open-ended fund Deka Immobilien-Nordamerika.

The client has an integrated sustainability strategy to manage investor capital using an economic, environmental, and socially sustainable business approach. As part of that strategy, it is continually increasing efforts in the field, including pursuing green building certifications such as BREEAM In-Use.

The company aims to be climate neutral by 2050. With more than €40 billion in real estate assets worldwide, DEKA USA Property TWO LP seeks to provide a major contribution to global environmental sustainability.

The distribution center at 3050 Gateway Commerce Center Drive, Edwardsville.
The distribution center at 3050 Gateway Commerce Center Drive, Edwardsville.

Challenges

Like many industrial facilities, this distribution centre faced challenges due to its rural location with reduced surrounding amenities. The tenant was gracious enough to provide information and accommodate multiple site visits. These were carried out within the context of heightened security and operations protocols, which were established to protect the health and safety of the tenant’s employees as well as the efficiency of the services provided.

The tenant understood that for DEKA USA Property TWO LP, the systematic pursuit of certification strategy is an essential part of their commitment to sustainability.

Solutions

BREEAM Part 1 certification, which assesses the performance of a building, was well suited to this site. It was also feasible for the building to achieve, given the nature of a distribution center and limited access to whole-building utility information available.

The building achieved 15 out of 33 credits available. For a warehouse/distribution centre it is impressive to see that the asset has implemented a number of features to enhance the overall health and wellbeing of its occupants.

In addition to helping meet the goal of certification at their properties, the BREEAM assessment helped Deka measure and report on sustainability practices and performance at the asset, including:

  • Public transportation within 0.3 miles of the building via safe pedestrian route with a 30 minute service frequency at peak times (TRA02)

  • All toilets and urinals fitted with low flush technologies (WAT02 and WAT03)

  • A minimum of 2 separate waste streams (WST01)

  • All internal lamps using LED bulbs (ENE25)

  • 49.6% of the site planted with vegetation, meaning this site earned nearly all of the credits offered for Land Use and Ecology category.

Benefits

Certification provided assurance to both Deka and the tenant that the building is aligned with sustainability goals set out by both parties. Industrial facilities like 3050 Gateway are the perfect example of how an existing building can benefit from the BREEAM USA In-Use standard, documenting sustainability aspects…and developing a framework for future progress.
– Eric Tilden, Director, US Energy & Sustainability Services at Cushman & Wakefield
Summary DEKA USA Property TWO LP

Summary

Client:
DEKA USA Property TWO LP
Assessor:
Megan Krest for Cushman and Wakefield
Version:
BREEAM In-Use 2016 Part 1 – Asset Performance
BREEAM rating:
Pass (38.5%)
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