Bywater Properties Investment Management LLP
London, United Kingdom
September 2022
Real estate development
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
Bywater Properties is a pioneering developer focused on driving the adoption of low carbon development and refurbishment across the UK. Founded in London in 2006, we address the climate emergency with urgency and intensity; investing in innovation and design to deliver exceptional residential and commercial buildings with lasting industry-wide impact. As one of the first Certified B-Corporations in our sector, we put timber at the heart of everything we do. We stand out as a formidable real estate development partner: fast-growing, entrepreneurial, young, diverse and led by an experienced and dynamic executive team. Shaped by our four key drivers – Prosperity, Place, People and Planet – we are recognised for our purpose-led projects and our commitment to a more sustainable built environment. In the past two years alone, we have completed four low carbon office refurbishments – in Manchester, London, Glasgow and Belfast – and are currently on site at Paradise in Lambeth, which is the UK’s lowest embodied carbon mass timber office development. For future development, we have acquired three prominent buildings for timber-led re-use in Clerkenwell, Soho and Manchester’s CBD.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 12.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 12.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 17.4
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 10.0
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 59.0
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 0.5
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.