Investor and developer Fabrix has hired CBRE’s head of sustainable capital as its new director of sustainable investing.
Helen Newman brings more than 20 years of experience to the role.
She will be responsible for driving sustainable impact across the Fabrix business and addressing holistic performance across areas including climate adaptation and resilience, whole-life carbon and building performance and post occupancy evaluation.
She will also be involved in Fabrix’s activities across circular economy innovation, health and wellbeing, biodiversity and green infrastructure.
She will be working closely alongside director of impact Debbie Whitfield.
At CBRE, Newman worked across the capital markets business, specialising in structuring sustainability performance targets for green real estate loans and developing sustainable finance frameworks to increase capital flows into sustainable assets.
Prior to this role, she was head of sustainability at CBRE Advisory, overseeing investor ESG services across real estate portfolios totalling over £23bn assets under management.
Newman is vice chair of the Urban Land Institute’s UK Sustainability Product Council, is on the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council ESG task group and is a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Knowledge Panel.
Fabrix owns a real estate portfolio in London and Berlin, including projects under development, with a total GDV of more than £1bn.
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