DeVono Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Sustainability Summary

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DeVono presents ESG as an important part of commercial real estate, arguing that the built environment has a significant role in the UK’s ambition to reach Net Zero. Its sustainability content focuses on the office environment, where resource use, building fabric, workplace design, and employee expectations can affect environmental and social outcomes. The company also links ESG to investor scrutiny, workplace quality, and the demand for higher-quality buildings. Its published material emphasises carbon footprint reduction, flexible working, green commuting, circular economy practices, and the use of technology to support sustainability in offices.

About DeVono

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Unverified

Website
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Employees
25 - 100

Country
United Kingdom

DeVono Sustainability Actions

Published ESG guidance

DeVono published “ESG: Real estate supporting targets” on 29 September 2021. The article states that the built environment contributes around 40 per cent of the UK’s total carbon footprint and that the commercial real estate sector has a strong role to play in the UK’s ambition to reach Net Zero. It also says that ESG responsibility comes from both the corporate and individual, and that the office environment is where the two align.

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Outlined workplace sustainability topics

In “Sustainability in the Workplace – 10 things to look out for in 2021”, DeVono identified ten sustainability-related concepts for workplaces, including counting the cost of carbon footprints, switching to renewables, using sustainable and cost-effective materials, valuing secondhand workplace sustainability, transforming through technology, catering for green commuters, and embracing the circular economy.

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Promoted carbon reduction actions

The workplace sustainability article says that organisations should understand exactly what energy they are using and rethink the carbon footprint they are leaving behind. It also notes that carbon offsetting has been commonplace for several years, that businesses will increasingly set carbon emission reduction initiatives within their business and supply chain, and that insetting tackles carbon emission reduction at the source.

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Highlighted Dthree Studio support

DeVono states that its in-house design and build team, Dthree Studio, can help organisations maximise sustainability in their office design.

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Reported carbon targets met

Janus Henderson content included in the source states that in 2021 it met its three-year environmental targets to reduce its carbon footprint by 15% per full-time employee, and that it collects carbon data on a quarterly basis and reviews performance in line with its targets.

DeVono Sustainability Commitments

2030

Net-zero carbon portfolios

The workplace sustainability article says there is a common pathway emerging from developers looking to achieve net-zero carbon portfolios by 2030.

2022

New five-year emissions targets

Janus Henderson content in the source says that in 2022 it set new five-year targets, in line with guidance from the Science Based Targets Initiative, for Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions to reduce operational emissions.