Working with the Better Buildings Partnership, Revo has facilitated the development of an industry-specific benchmark for energy use in large shopping centres, as part of a pioneering project that brings together data from some of the UK’s best-loved landmarks.

Bringing people together to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and lead the important conversations around retail and leisure places is what Revo does best. Our work with the Better Buildings Partnership speaks exactly to that.

Like the BBP, we know that the largest shopping centres face a particular set of energy use challenges that sets them apart from other places. That instigated a conversation last year, about how we could come together to evidence and assess the difference. The aim would be to create a benchmark more tailored to those destinations, to support understanding, reporting, and frameworks like EU Taxonomy.

Working together, we engaged representatives of 70% of the 60 largest retail and leisure destinations in the country. The data they provided not only confirmed our belief, but has shaped landmark findings that will only encourage more collaboration and knowledge sharing in the future.

Our Chair Vivienne King explains it best: “Working alongside the BBP, Revo has been able to bring together representatives of 70% of the largest centres in the country, creating a network that really sees the benefits of information sharing and collaboration. The data they have provided points to the largest schemes facing particular sets of energy use challenges, something we would not have appreciated or been able to define, without this pioneering study. In the long run, this will pave the way for better outcomes and decision making for some of the UK’s best-loved landmark destinations.”