Promotion Structure

The E Team within the ESG Promotion Group plays a central role in setting annual targets and promoting environmental initiatives. The details of activities carried out by the team are reported at regular meetings of the ESG Promotion Group held on a monthly basis and reflected in the management structure, including the Board of Directors, under the responsibility of the head of the President’s Office. As a general real estate developer, ES-CON JAPAN is involved in a variety of development projects. We pursue environmentally friendly real estate development, operation, and management through collaboration between the ESG Promotion Group and our various business departments.

At ES-CON Home and ES-CON Craft, we have established the following goal to realize ZEH spread of 50% in and after fiscal 2020 with an aim to provide and spread environmentally friendly detached houses, and completed ZEH Builder* registration. We will provide environmentally friendly houses towards the achievement of our goal.

The following community-based commercial facilities owned by ES-CON JAPAN REIT Investment Corporation (EJR) have acquired DBJ Green Building certification.

DBJ Green Building Certification is a certification system established by Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) in April 2011 to support environmentally and socially conscious real estate properties (“Green Buildings”). It supports these initiatives by evaluating and certifying socially and economically desirable properties based on a comprehensive assessment, which includes not only their environmental performance but also their responsiveness to various stakeholder needs, such as disaster preparedness and consideration of the community.

Two of the 4 properties in total that have acquired certification were developed by us, while operation and management of all 4 are handled by our subsidiary ES-CON Property.

We received the highest rank of “S” in CASBEE Real Estate Certification for “tonarie Fujimino (former Soyoca Fujimino) (Fujimino-shi, Saitama),” a commercial facility we own, from an assessment and certification organization of CASBEE certified by the Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation. Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) assesses and rates the environmental performance of buildings, and is a system for comprehensively assessing the quality of buildings including environmental consideration such as conservation of energy and the use of equipment with low environmental burden as well as consideration to indoor comfort and scenery.

CASBEE Real Estate Assessment was developed for the purpose of utilizing the results of the environmental assessments of buildings in CASBEE in real estate assessments. Buildings are scored in the five assessment items of “1. Energy and greenhouse gas,” “2. Water,” “3. Use of resources and safety,” “4. Biodiversity and site,” and “5. Indoor environment,” and one of the four ratings of “S,” “A,” “B+,” and “B” is given based on such score.

We are carefully creating condominiums while considering the environment even at properties other than the ZEH-M condominiums which have particularly high environmental performance.

In the development of for-sale condominiums, we obtain the highest levels under the standards for performance of thermal insulation, etc. (grade 4) and deterioration (grade 3) as a standard.

We also seek effective utilization of energy and resources by employing LED lighting, water-saving toilets and other energy- and resource-efficient equipment.

We are pursuing joint research with the Tokyo University of Science’s Takase Laboratory, which has a focus on architectural environment engineering, with the aim of reducing our environmental footprint and realizing a sustainable society through the development of environmentally friendly apartment buildings.

Research themes: Heat; Energy efficiency; Comfort; Global environment

Specializing in the field of architectural environment engineering, this lab is engaged in areas such as thermal environment, energy efficiency, and sustainable design. It has received numerous honors, including the 7th Sustainable Housing Award in 2017.

Sustainable housing is housing that utilizes natural clean energy, such as solar power and wind power, without using energy from petroleum causing global warming.