07:54 May 22, 2014
Would "numerous sustainability reports" be written about a specific portfolio? The word can mean "a collection of assets", and I just can't shake the feeling that Portfolio is being used here, albeit most strangely, to mean buildings collectively.
"Power and water consumption in buildings (i.e. taken as a collective group or "portfolio") have a central role in numerous sustainability reports".
This is the first sentence of the article. A later sentence says: "Etwa 25.000 Gebäude verfügen in Deutschland über (mindestens) eine Klima- bzw. Lüftungsanlage." So it seems to be referring to many buildings across Germany, not just a handful that might be in a literal "portfolio". |