GRESB benchmarks real-estate portfolios on ESG performance, and investors read the score. We prepare the submission and, alongside it, work on the buildings that produce the numbers, so that the score improves because the portfolio has.
+12pt
on one client portfolio
GRESB
partner status
April
when assessment opens
What is GRESB?
GRESB is the global benchmark for ESG performance in real assets. Fund managers and institutional investors use the annual assessment to compare portfolios, and the score feeds into financing conversations, investor reporting and asset strategy.
The assessment window opens in April and closes in July, with results published in October. Scoring rewards data quality, performance improvement and risk management, which means a submission can only be as strong as the buildings behind it.
As a GRESB Partner with an engineering practice, we work on both sides of that: structuring the data and the submission, and delivering the building-level improvements in energy, water, waste and risk assessment that move the score. One client engagement took a portfolio from 56 to 68 points and from one star to two, with each gain traceable to work done on the assets.
the process
How GRESB reporting works
step 01
Gap analysis
Last year's submission, or a dry run, scored against the current standard, with the point opportunities ranked.
step 02
Data structure
Asset-level data collection organised so the portfolio figures hold up under validation.
step 03
Improvement plan
Building performance measures, risk assessments and policies sequenced against the assessment calendar.
step 04
Submission & debrief
The submission filed inside the window, and the October results turned into the following year's plan.
from our portfolio
GRESB projects we've delivered
Portfolio engagements pair the annual submission with multi-year improvement plans.
A GRESB score reflects the portfolio behind it, so the question worth settling early is which points sit in the data and which sit in the buildings.
Both are workable, but they run on different timelines, and knowing which is which before the April window opens changes what can realistically be achieved this cycle.
01 partnership
Partner since 2023
Energo has been a GRESB Global Partner since January 2023. Partner status keeps us current with the assessment as it changes from year to year. The scoring methodology moves, and a submission prepared against last year's version leaves points on the table.
02 engineering
Engineering behind the data
The indicators GRESB scores, energy, water, emissions, waste, come from building systems we design and test. When a figure underperforms, we can look at the system producing it rather than only at the spreadsheet recording it.
03 track record
Documented improvement
A twelve-point, one-to-two-star client improvement came from building performance measures and better-structured data. Each part of that movement is traceable to specific work, which is what makes it repeatable on another portfolio.
04 timing
Planned to the calendar
The cycle is fixed: window in April, close in July, results in October. Our engagements run on that calendar, so the improvements are in place and the data is ready before the window opens rather than being assembled inside it.
Related services
GRI
GRI
Sustainability reporting aligned with the GRI Standards, built on asset-level data that holds up when the disclosures are examined.
Alignment assessed against the EU's technical screening criteria. Energy thresholds, climate adaptation and do-no-significant-harm conditions, verified rather than declared.
A short call before the cycle turns is usually enough to see where the points are and whether they sit in the data or in the buildings. Both are workable, on different timelines.
