Wüest Partner Germany: Establishment of an ESG team
Gerhard Hoffmann joined the Wüest Partner team on February 1, 2022 as Director ESG and Sustainability Germany. In the newly created position, he is responsible for setting up an ESG team on the German market for the Swiss research and consulting company.
“I am pleased to be able to support Wüest Partner even more intensively from now on,” says Gerhard Hoffmann, the new Director ESG and Sustainability at Wüest Partner Germany . Reconciling ecology and economy using state-of-the-art technologies has always been the primary goal of his work. At Wüest Partner he has the best prerequisites for this. “Now the task is to form an interdisciplinary and highly motivated team of experienced experts.” Above all, in order to strategically and operationally advance the increasingly important topics on the German market, says Hoffmann.
Many years of expertise in the sustainability segment
For more than four decades he has been dedicated to his mission of reducing CO2 emissions by developing sustainable energy concepts in the real estate industry. The graduate engineer and graduate industrial engineer is involved in numerous international research and development projects with a focus on regenerative energy supply. He has developed energy concepts for over 900 buildings and worked on more than 1,400 sustainability projects. The licensed BREEAM auditor sits on the working groups of the ZIA Central Real Estate Committee . He is also a member and senior auditor of the DGNB German Sustainable Building Council .
«Ideal cast for a highly complex market»
As an independent consultant, Hoffmann has already successfully accompanied the implementation of the Wüest Climate Tool on the German market. In doing so, he “significantly shaped an important milestone in the company’s history,” writes the company. The new position is the logical continuation of a successful collaboration, says Rüdiger Hornung , partner and managing director of Wüest Partner. This is “the decisive step on the way to a sustainable future in the real estate industry”. Hoffmann is the “ideal person to promote sustainability and energy efficiency in our highly complex market, both professionally and personally”.
Swiss group represented in four countries
Wüest Partner (founded in 1985), headquartered in Switzerland, currently has eleven locations in four European countries. The Swiss office locations are in Zurich (headquarters), Bern, Geneva and Lugano. In Germany (market entry: 2007) the group has branches in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg and Munich. There are other locations in Paris and Lisbon. The group also owns the two subsidiaries Datahouse and Durable , each with 100 percent ownership.