Low Carbon Workplace
Our Approach
- Long term relationships with core clients to build a deep understanding of objectives and needs
- Close involvement with new projects from inception to advise and shape deliverable transactions
- Experience and technical capability to deliver outcomes
We employed these capabilities when we advised Carbon Trust on the formation of Low Carbon Workplace management company and associated fund.
Sector
Energy Transition & Climate Change The Built Environment
Carbon Trust
Low Carbon Workplace
Public or Private: Private
Client Position: Seller
- Company Profile
- Transaction Background
- What We Did
- Outcome
Low Carbon Workplace contributes low carbon design advice for refurbishments, coordinates the Low Carbon Workplace Standard and provides ongoing low-carbon assistance to occupiers under the Low Carbon Workplace Charter.
- Carbon Trust had identified potential partners to support its development and fund objectives for the Low Carbon Workplace project
- The objective was to create a meaningful capital participation for Carbon Trust in the Low Carbon Workplace project in return for Carbon Trust know how and brand enhancement
- Working with the Carbon Trust team, Opus developed the economic framework and returns analysis to propose to potential third party funders / partners
- Opus supported Carbon Trust in the negotiation of the detailed terms and structure with preferred partners (Columbia Threadneedle and Stanhope
- Launched in 2010, Low Carbon Workplace was in the vanguard of energy efficient development and regeneration
- The underlying fund has performed strongly vindicating the expectation of increased yields form certificated low energy buildings