Identify climate risks. Ensure sustainability.

Sustainaccount creates a robust data foundation for identifying physical climate risks to real estate and assessing their relevance. These include, for example, risks posed by heat, heavy rain, flooding, storms, or other climate-related changes. This specialized analysis helps property owners and project teams identify location- and property-specific risks at an early stage and establish a robust foundation for the further assessment and planning of adaptation measures.

Climate risk analyses have long been relevant beyond the context of the EU Taxonomy or building certifications. As the impacts of climate change intensify, the resilience of real estate is becoming a key factor in its long-term usability and value retention. Identifying risks early on makes it possible to prepare buildings specifically for them and to reduce potential damage, restrictions on use, and future adaptation costs. A climate risk analysis therefore delivers its greatest value when the identified risks lead to concrete decisions regarding the building. This is precisely where the expertise of Sustainaccount and LIST Eco complement each other. LIST Eco contributes the necessary project and building data to the analysis and contextualizes the results within the respective planning, construction, and usage contexts. Sustainaccount complements this with specialized expertise in assessing physical climate risks. Together, they then determine which risks are relevant to the specific building and which climate change adaptation measures make technical and economic sense.

LIST Eco handles project-specific data entry and serves as the interface between the building owner, the design team, and other project stakeholders. Building on this, Sustainaccount conducts the specialized climate risk analysis and assists in the technical assessment of the identified risks. The adaptation measures derived from this analysis are then jointly translated into the project context. LIST Eco can evaluate these measures in terms of planning, building physics, costs, and structural feasibility, and integrate them into further planning—for example, measures for summer heat protection, heavy rain mitigation, greening, or addressing other site-specific climate risks.

Climate risk analyses are a highly relevant factor in minimizing risks associated with real estate purchases and during the early stages of project development. Site-specific risks can be factored into investment decisions early on, allowing necessary adaptation measures to be integrated into planning, cost estimates, and technical concepts from the outset—rather than having to be retrofitted at great expense later on. Requirements stemming from the EU Taxonomy and building certifications are sensibly taken into account and documented directly.

In this way, Sustainaccount and LIST Eco combine climate risk analysis with concrete planning and implementation expertise —from acquisition and early-stage project development through to the planning and implementation of effective climate change adaptation measures.