Real estate investor and developer Fabrix has appointed Helen Newman as director of sustainable investing.
Newman has over 20 years of experience and is expected to drive sustainable impact across the business.
This will include steering corporate ambition, fund-wide and asset-specific strategies and disclosure, and addressing performance issues across areas including climate adaptation and resilience, whole life carbon and building performance, and post occupancy evaluation.
She will be working closely alongside director of impact Debbie Whitfield who leads Fabrix’s work across social impact, partnerships, community engagement and external affairs.
Clive Nichol, CEO at Fabrix said: 'Everything we do at Fabrix is underpinned by a commitment to sustainability and impact - for the good of our investors, occupiers, communities and the planet.
'I’m delighted to welcome Helen to the team to drive this even further, both corporately and across all our assets. Sustainable investing is at the forefront of our approach, so essential that we have the voice of sustainability at the highest level in our decision-making.'
Fabrix owns a real estate portfolio in London and Berlin, including projects under development, with a total GDV of over £1 bn.
Prior to her role at Fabrix, Newman was head of sustainable capital at CBRE where she worked across the capital markets business, specialising in structuring sustainability performance targets for green real estate loans and developing sustainable finance frameworks to increase capital flows into sustainable assets.
Prior to this role, she was head of sustainability at CBRE Advisory overseeing investor ESG services across real estate portfolios totalling over £23 bn AUM.
Newman is vice chair of the ULI UK Sustainability Product Council, is on the CREFC ESG task group, and is a member of the CIBSE Knowledge Panel.
Her appointment follows other new hires announced in May, with Hayden Scillitoe and Judge Williams joining Fabrix’s investment team from Blackstone and Goldman Sachs respectively.
Said Newman: 'I am passionate about creating a built environment that supports healthy and equitable communities, and addresses the climate and biodiversity crisis, so I’m delighted to join the purposeful and ambitious team at Fabrix, where sustainable development is foundational to the business ethos.
'As an investor and developer whose actions and projects reflect a deep understanding of the fact that sustainable development and social impact are moral imperatives, I am excited to help deliver innovative and impactful developments and investment opportunities.'
