The GRI Standards are the most widely used sustainability reporting framework in the world. We align real-estate reporting with them, built on building data that can be traced back to a meter.
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What is GRI?
The Global Reporting Initiative publishes the standards most organisations use to report sustainability performance: universal standards that apply to every reporter, and topic standards covering energy, emissions, water, waste and the other material subjects.
For organisations that hold real estate, the credibility of a GRI report rests on asset-level data. Energy, water and emissions figures roll up from individual buildings, and if the building data is weak, the report is weak however well it is written.
Our reporting work sits on our engineering work: the metering, the performance data and the improvement measures that give the disclosures their substance. Client reporting we have supported has carried the GRI Service Mark three years in a row.
the process
How GRI reporting works
step 01
Materiality
The topics that matter to the organisation and its stakeholders, mapped to the relevant GRI standards.
step 02
Data Foundation
Asset-level data collection aligned to the disclosures, with gaps closed at the meter rather than estimated in the spreadsheet.
step 03
Reporting
Disclosures drafted and aligned, with each claim traceable to a measurement.
step 04
Continuity
The reporting cycle set up as a repeatable process, so the following year starts from a system rather than from scratch.
from our portfolio
LEED projects we've delivered
Certified floor area across Serbia, Italy, Switzerland and beyond, from public infrastructure to commercial high-rise.
A sustainability report is read by people looking for the evidence behind the claims, and the weak point is nearly always asset-level data: energy and emissions figures that cannot be traced back to a meter.
Closing that gap takes longer than writing the report, which is why it is worth starting well before the reporting deadline rather than during it.
01 track record
Three-year service mark
Client reporting we have supported has achieved the GRI Service Mark three years running. The Service Mark confirms that the report's use of the standards has been checked by GRI itself.
02 data
Traceable disclosures
Energy and emissions figures in a real-estate report come from building systems. Because we design and test those systems, the figures in the report can be followed back to their source, which is what an auditor or an investor will eventually ask for.
03 outcomes
Reporting that improves buildings
The gaps a GRI process reveals are often engineering gaps: missing submetering, an underperforming system, a building with no baseline. Those become the work for the following year, so the report improves because the portfolio did.
04 Efficiency
One data foundation
GRI, GRESB, CSRD and the EU Taxonomy draw on overlapping data. We build the foundation once, aligned to all of them, so the organisation is not collecting the same figures four times in four formats.
Related services
GRESB
GRESB
Portfolio-level ESG benchmarking for real assets. Submission and data structuring, alongside the building improvements that move the score year on year.
Portfolio-level ESG benchmarking for real assets. Submission and data structuring, alongside the building improvements that move the score year on year.
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 is usually enough to see whether the data foundation supports the disclosures, and what would need measuring between now and the reporting date.
