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Program
14:00 - Welcome with a coffee
14:30 - Intro : Tanja Barella (belfa) & Guy Claes (CBRE)
14:45
Mary Kate Frisby - European Commission, DG FISMA (Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Market Union)
Introduction on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting requirements and other relevant European initiatives.
15:15
Benoît Cruysmans - ESG & Sustainability Director BeLux (CBRE)
Why are ESG & CSRD such hot topics in 2024?
Climate change is threat for our society. I’s a fact. How is the EU preparing for the future? And how are Environmental, Social and Governance criteria (ESG) becoming key drivers for businesses, with the entry into force of the Corporate social Responsibility Directive (CSRD)?
Benoît will introduce the CSR Directive and the EU sustainable compagnies classification system, the Taxonomy. He will discuss which Belgian compagnies are concerned by the directive and how they must report. He will also explain how this change will have a snow bowl effect for all businesses, in terms of resilience, financing, risk management and compliance. Benoît will point some concrete impacts for the real estate sector and, more specifically for property and facility managers. We will discuss potential concrete effects of CSRD on various topics such as assets values, building performances & optimization, supply chains, talent retention, reputational risks, and behavior changes.
15:45 - Coffee break
16:15
Charlotte De Mey – Sector Relations Expert (NBN) & Charlotte Geboers -Project Manager Standards Development (NBN)
Empowering ESG Commitments: The Crucial Role of Voluntary Standards in Europe and Beyond
Voluntary standards, and standardisation in general, are practical and crucial tools that do help organisations in Europe and throughout the world achieve their ESG related commitments. Based on consensus among all the parties that are impacted by or interested in those documents, ISO and European standards are not just ‘documents’ – they are mostly a wealth of knowledge and best practices recognised all over the world. Hundreds of them can support organisations in reaching their ESG goals, including in the framework of the CSRD.
As the Belgian national body for standardisation, NBN is the official Belgian member of ISO and of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). We represent the Belgian stakeholders' interests in the international and European standards making process. Many do not know that the standardisation process is open to any interested party in any country, who can then follow projects in real time and contribute to them up until publication. Both the use of standards and the bottom-up involvement in the standardisation system yield benefits to any organisation, as confirmed by the involved players in a number of recent market surveys.
16:45
Panel discussion fire camp
17:30 - Network moment
19:00 - End
Speakers
Benoît Cruysmans (CBRE)
Benoît Cruysmans joined CBRE’s Global platform of 600 ESG consultants a little more than one year ago. He currently leads the Belgium and Luxembourg ESG & Sustainability team.
Benoît has 10 years of teaching experience at the UCL Faculty of Architecture, and 20 years in the design and execution of buildings, in all sorts of asset classes, in Europe and the US.
For 7 years, Benoît has been focusing on ESG aspects and sustainability, with an MBA from Solvay Business School, an experience within the Colruyt group, and the sustainable real estate program from Cambridge University.
Prices
Members of belfa Young belfa & students : free Professionnals : free Commercials : 50 € excl. vat | Non-member of belfa Professionnals : 50 € excl. vat * Commercials : 99 € excl. vat |
* Free if you become a member (valid for 12 months - 195 euro excl. vat)
Professionnals = active in providing or delivering facility management within your own company
Practical information
Parking: parking CBRE - Bessenveldstraat 21 - Machelen
- The parking is a 14-minute walk from the CBRE offices.
In case of rain, a shuttle will be provided
Bicycle: several bicycle highways to the site.
- F3 HST route Leuven - Brussels
- FR0 ring route Brussels
Bus: 4 bus routes connect Park 7 with various destinations, with 2 bus stops within walking distance.
- Haren 3M Toyota bus stop
(180 m - 2 min walk via Hermeslaan) - Bus 471
Brussels - Zaventem / Zaventem - Brussels (express bus Brussels)
During rush hour: every 15 min.
Bus 471 has a stop at Brussels International Airport (Airport Platform A), Haren Bordet train station (Haren Bordet Station) and Brussels North train station (Brussels North exit station).
13 min to Brussels Int. airport,
14 min to Haren Bordet train station
21 min to train station Brussels North
- Bus 471
- Haren Bourget station
(600 m - 8 min walk via Bourget Avenue) - Bus 471
Brussels - Zaventem / Zaventem - Brussels (express bus Brussels)
During rush hour: every 15 min. - Bus 12
Brussels Airport - Brussels City (Troon) / Brussels City (Troon) - Brussels Airport
During rush hour: every 15 min. - Bus 272
Brussels - Zaventem / Zaventem - Brussels
During rush hour: every 15 min. - Bus 620
Anderlecht - Zaventem / Zaventem Anderlecht
During rush hour: every 30 min.
- Bus 471
Tram: Eurocontrol stop
(750 m - 9 min walk via Bourgetlaan and Raketstraat)
Tram 62
Eurocontrol - Kerkhof van Jette / Kerkhof van Jette - Eurocontrol
During rush hour: every 5 - 10 min
Tram 62 has a stop (Da Vinci) near Bordet train station (750 m - 7 min walk via Jules Bordetlaan/N294 and Bourgetlaan)
Consult the timetable
Train:
- Diegem station
(2.2 km - 8 min by bike, 5 min by car) - 2 trains/hour to Leuven (21 min)
- 1 train/hour to Eigenbrakel with stops at Meiser (10 min) and Brussels Schuman (14 min)
- 1 train/hour to ‘s-Gravenbrakel with stops at Brussels North (13 min) Brussels Central (18 min) and Brussels South (23 min) - With a change at Brussels South, you can travel to Paris and Cologne by Thalys and to Lille and London by Eurostar.
- Bordet train station
(2.2 km - 7 min by bike, 6 min by car) - 2 trains/hour to Mechelen (26 min)
- 1 train/hour to Leuven (27 min)
- 2 trains/hour to Halle (38 min) with a stop in Merode (8 min) close to the European district
- 1 train/hour to Aalst (1 hour 10 min) with a stop at Brussels Schuman (20 min) in the European district
- 1 train/hour to Vilvoorde (9 min)
Cancellation
For non members of belfa : cancellation can only be made by mail to office@belfa.be until 1 week before the event. Afterwards, the full registration fee is due.
For facility managers (professionals) who are members of belfa or Young belfa: In case of absence from the event without cancellation within the specified deadline, a fee of €50 excluding VAT will be charged to you.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, belfa may be forced to cancel the event or modify the program.