"The summer of 2026 showed what inaction costs; the courts, for their part, have begun to say who must be held responsible for it," emphasize François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associates.
By combining energy management systems, decentralized generation and storage solutions, facility managers have a strategic opportunity: to transform their buildings according to the "building as a grid" model, says Kamal Mehta, Product & Offer Manager EMEA at Eaton.
Relying on a new methodology, a recent study aims to address a shortcoming: the insufficient amount of empirical evidence allowing a systematic link to be established between ESG criteria and financial performance in real estate.
Responding to a recent survey conducted by Comparis on Swiss real estate, Sascha Nick, a researcher at EPFL's Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Economics, says that "Switzerland is not suffering from a housing shortage."
"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
"If the Federal Council is now considering abolishing the program — or at least withdrawing the federal contribution — it is mainly because of the windfall effects it generates," explains Philippe Thalmann, professor of environmental economics at EPFL.
Analysis of surface areas, planning and supervision of works, monitoring, maintenance, billing of energy to tenants... the company Local Energy takes care of everything. "We like to define ourselves as a sort of energy utility," explains its director, Richard Mesple.
