CBRE has announced the appointment of Gabriele Lüft in a newly created role as head of environmental consultancy, EMEA.
Lüft will oversee the development of a new pan-EMEA environmental consultancy capability which is being established in response to increased client demand for expert advice in this area. Uwe Stenzel will be the head of environmental consultancy within Germany.
The team, to be developed further in the coming months, will bring together environmental expertise from across CBRE’s EMEA network and will provide clients with environmental due diligence, environmental risk management, and will address topics such as hazardous building materials, land contamination, as well as climate threats.
Having gained her doctorate in agricultural engineering, Lüft has been a member of the management team of CBRE Preuss Valteq, a technical and business-oriented consulting firm in the commercial property sector, since 2017. Prior to this, she was a shareholder and co-founder of Valteq, a technical and business-oriented consulting firm in the commercial property sector, that was founded in 2012 and taken over by CBRE in 2014.
Specialist expertise
'Although environmental services are becoming increasingly important for our clients, few real estate advisors provide this specialist expertise,' Lüft commented.
In Germany, Stenzel will lead an experienced team of nine experts. He will be responsible for the current operations in Germany as well as the continued expansion of the team to meet the increasing demand for environmental services in the German market.
CBRE has also strengthened its environmental consultancy offer to clients in the UK. Julie Townsend, senior director in building consultancy will become head of UK environmental consultancy and will oversee a 21-strong team providing environmental risk, sustainable engineering and environmental planning and assessment teams within its UK building consultancy group.
