Industrial estates guide: helping businesses become sustainable

The Hague has the ambition of becoming climate neutral by 2030. The municipality also aims to create a greener city for its inhabitants, with clean air and less waste. This ambition will affect all public space users, including businesses on industrial estates in the inner city. These are often older than industrial estates closer to the periphery. Inner city industrial estates also occupy large areas of land and are close to residential areas.

Businesses need help and advice to make their assets sustainable. The guide includes measures focused on three aspects of sustainability: energy, climate change adaptation and biodiversity. The guide contains advice to tackle several of the challenges facing society. The proposals contribute to making the city of The Hague more sustainable by reducing energy consumption. The measures to make businesses greener also contribute to a climate-robust environment that creates new connections and space. This will make a positive contribution to biodiversity.

Witteveen+Bos has identified thirty measures across these domains, including energy saving (roof insulation etc.), green façades and water storage/reuse. For all these measures, our experts have carried out cost-benefit analyses, calculated payback times and performed risk estimates, including in relation to flooding. There are also useful tips for implementing these measures, so businesses don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

Link to the files at the municipality of The Hague (in Dutch):

Sustainable Industrial Estates Guide The Hague (raadsinformatie.nl)