By Patricia Romo
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – 6:43 p.m.
The goal of the firm is to strengthen the integrity and cooperation of the entire production chain of the sector, in order to generate harmony between interested parties and confidence in the final consumer. Guadalajara, Jal. Due to the fact that more and more real estate developments and development companies for both vertical towers and industrial warehouses are appearing in the entity, the company Kartensoll México is promoting the certification of construction processes to generate confidence in the real estate sector. The president of the company’s board of directors, Diego Espinosa de los Monteros, told El Economista that the objective of the certification is “to strengthen the integrity and cooperation of the entire production chain of the real estate sector, with the aim of generating harmony between interested parties and generating confidence and certainty for the final consumer.” After signing an agreement with the Association of Industrial Parks of the State of Jalisco (APIEJ), Espinosa de los Monteros de la Torre detailed the growth that the development of industrial warehouses has had in the entity. As a whole, the entire real estate sector represents 12.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the entity, so, according to the president of Kartensoll Mexico, “it is necessary to purge the pseudo developers to strengthen the ethical, fulfilled, professional developer who has experience and to recover integrity and trust in the real estate sector.” And the company certifies processes that the investor or the final consumer cannot see, since to certify, 114 indicators are measured that correspond to four large areas: the company that develops it, the legal part, the technical part and the financial part. Kartensoll has an ISO 37001 certification from Global Standards and is the first company in the real estate sector that has an anti-bribery and conflict of interest certification. The company is also working with the municipal governments of Guadalajara and Zapopan to ensure that certification is required for all developers, and the intention is to include it in the 2023 Income Law. “There is also already a one-stop shop for those projects that have this type of certification process, so that their procedures are streamlined. In the end, this generates good practices,” said Espinosa de Los Monteros.