CUBE, the real estate industry’s first competition dedicated to empowering commercial buildings to make a significant contribution to net zero, has officially launched in the UK.
Since it was announced in June 2021, the nationwide competition has seen incredible momentum, signing up 9 leading industry names. The participants encompass a diverse range of company sizes, sectors, locations and building types – comprising existing, heritage and newly refurbished commercial premises.
CUBE is designed to improve energy efficiency in the workplace through a fun, gamified competition that encourages simple behavioural change and building reprogramming. Crucially, it is designed to encourage closer collaboration between landlords, building managers and occupiers, promoting collective action towards shared goals to bring about substantial energy savings in their commercial buildings.
These early movers are set to pioneer an innovative new approach to driving energy efficiency improvements in their buildings, working together and sharing knowledge, best practice, and outcomes to lead the way in the wider industry’s journey to net zero.
Candidates of the first UK Edition
- Leading UK real estate company Landsec put forward three commercial buildings in London – One New Change, 80-100 Victoria Street and New Street Square
- Developer, investor, and asset manager Stanhope has entered as a landlord, working in tandem with Savills and Enjoy-Work as property managers, committing four buildings in London: 2 Television Centre, White City Place MediaWorks, White City Place WestWorks and Chiswick Park Building 7In addition to the above, Savills, one of the world’s leading property agents, has also submitted five buildings
- TOG (The Office Group), provider of beautifully-designed flexible workspaces across the UK, has joined with two London buildings – one at Borough High Street and the other at Albert House in Old Street
- The Howard de Walden Estate, the owner of approximately 850 buildings across Marylebone, London, registered its historic head office at 23 Queen Anne Street in London’s Marylebone
- Real estate developer, the RO, has committed two buildings – One Dorset Street in Southampton and GNR8 Clarendon Road in Watford
- Property investor, developer, and asset manager, XLB Property P, has submitted three buildings, all based in Manchester – The Tootal Buildings, 35 Dale Street and Fourways, all of which are Grade 2 Listed and over a century old
- *Workspace, a leading provider of flexible office space for London’s brightest businesses, has signed up two buildings in the capital – heritage building The Leather Market in Bermondsey and new building The Frames in Shoreditch
- Dorrington, an established property investor and developer, has committed its own offices, based at 14 Hans Road in London’s Knightsbridge
