Echo Investment Property Management, the company managing Echo Investment facilities, has obtained a certificate confirming compliance of its environmental management system with the requirements of the ISO norm 14001:2004.

The basic objective of the ISO norm 14001 is to support activities connected with environmental protection as well as limit and prevent pollution while the model of the system adopted in the norm assumes perfecting, development and promoting knowledge in this field.

The successfully accomplished certification process is a result of management standards which have been used by the company for a long time on the one hand and a response to expectations of tenants and investment partners on the other.

Wojciech Knawa, director of Echo Investment Property Management: “Fulfilment of the environmental protection norms is one of the basic instruments of ecological policy implementation in EU countries and a very important element of regulating relations between the environment and the economy. Norm implementation makes it possible to minimize the negative influence on the environment, provides measurable economic benefits and is an important component of companies" development. Importantly, the adopted system requires constant improvement and controlling.  The certificate is more and more popular in Poland, which proves that our economy has been developing and our ecological awareness has been growing. We are happy that our company can actively participate in this process.”

Echo Investment Property Management (former Est-On Property Management) currently manages 16 shopping centres and office buildings (GLA of 370,000 sqm) and services approx. 1,000 tenants.