The EU Taxonomy sets the criteria for which real-estate activities count as environmentally sustainable for financing and reporting purposes. We assess buildings against its technical screening criteria with measurement, so that the alignment position is one that holds up.
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environmental objectives
DNSH
CRITERIA CHECKED
NZEB
ENERGY BENCHMARK
What is EU Taxonomy?
The Taxonomy is the EU's classification system for sustainable economic activity. For real estate it sets technical screening criteria: energy-performance thresholds for acquisitions and new construction, savings requirements for renovation, and do-no-significant-harm conditions covering climate adaptation, water, circularity, pollution and biodiversity.
Alignment matters because capital reads it. Green financing frameworks, fund disclosures under SFDR and corporate reports under CSRD all reference Taxonomy figures, so the position an organisation takes on alignment is one it may have to defend.
Our assessments are engineering exercises: energy performance verified against the thresholds, adaptation risk assessed, the DNSH conditions checked against evidence. The result is a position that can be supported, whether it confirms alignment or measures the distance to it.
the process
How EU Taxonomy assessment works
step 01
Screening
The asset or portfolio mapped to the relevant Taxonomy activities and criteria.
step 02
Technical assessment
Energy performance, climate risk and DNSH conditions verified by measurement and analysis.
step 03
Findings
Alignment status documented with its evidence, including the distance to alignment where the criteria are not yet met.
step 04
Pathway
Where alignment is the goal, the measures and costs that close the gap, in sequence.
from our portfolio
LEED projects we've delivered
Certified floor area across Serbia, Italy, Switzerland and beyond, from public infrastructure to commercial high-rise.
Taxonomy questions end in a number: a primary energy demand, a risk rating, a threshold met or missed.
What matters for your asset is that the answer is defensible whichever way it falls, because an alignment claim that does not survive scrutiny is worse in a financing conversation than an honest gap with a costed plan attached.
01 verification
Verified energy thresholds
The Taxonomy's energy criteria reference NZEB and primary energy demand. We establish the figure through energy modelling and measured performance rather than relying on the energy performance certificate alone, which was produced for a different purpose and often on different assumptions.
02 scope
Adaptation assessed alongside
The adaptation criteria call for a physical climate-risk assessment of the asset. That is existing Energo work, so it is carried out alongside the energy assessment rather than commissioned separately.
03 thoroughness
Full DNSH coverage
Alignment is usually lost on the criteria that received the least attention: water, circularity, pollution, biodiversity. We work through the complete set rather than stopping at the energy headline.
04 reporting
Finance-ready reporting
The assessment is delivered in the form banks, auditors and fund reports need: criteria, evidence, conclusion, and where relevant, the pathway and its cost.
Related services
CSRD
CSRD
Reporting under the EU directive. Double materiality, ESRS alignment, and building data brought to the traceability an audit expects.
Portfolio-level ESG benchmarking for real assets. Submission and data structuring, alongside the building improvements that move the score year on year.
