Rotterdam-based real estate developer OVG and Triodos Bank are launching a joint venture to help 'green' public sector real estate in the Netherlands. The pair are combining their forces in the new firm for the development of sustainable real estate schemes in the education, culture and health sectors.
Rotterdam-based real estate developer OVG and Triodos Bank are launching a joint venture to help 'green' public sector real estate in the Netherlands. The pair are combining their forces in the new firm for the development of sustainable real estate schemes in the education, culture and health sectors.
Triodos Bank is contributing the activities and expertise of Triodos Real Estate Development, which operates in the Netherlands, to the new joint venture company. The joint venture will be led by Bert Krikke, formerly director of Triodos Real Estate Development, and Thomas Ummels, formerly director project development at OVG.
OVG has dedicated itself to developing sustainable properties.
Coen van Oostrom, CEO of OVG: "In practice there are few real estate firms that offer solutions for the demand within the education, healthcare and cultural sectors for sustainable and innovative co-operation. OVG and Triodos are bundling these competencies in this new company.'
Triodos Bank is a European bank registered in the Netherlands and finances companies, institutions and projects that 'add cultural value and benefit people and the environment'. Triodos won the Financial Times Sustainable Bank of the Year Award in 2009.
The bank's real estate arm is already working with OVG on the development of the TNT Green Office Project located in the Hoofddorp office district, near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Triodos and OVG claim this will be the most sustainable office building in Europe.
