GRESB Certification Introduction

The Management Component
Measures the entity’s strategy and leadership management, policies and processes, risk management, and stakeholder engagement approach, composed of information collected at the entity level.

The Performance Component
Measures the entity’s asset portfolio performance, composed of information collected at the asset portfolio level. It is suitable for any real estate company or fund with operational assets.

The Development Component
Measures the entity’s efforts to address ESG-issues during the design, construction, and renovation of buildings. This component is suitable for entities involved in new construction (building design, site selection and/or construction) and/or major renovation projects, with ongoing projects or completed projects during the reporting year.

Energy Efficiency
The digital building twin can be used to gain energy efficiency, which can be reported as ‘Smart grid/ smart building technologies’ under the category ‘Energy’ in tab <Efficiency measures> of the 2023 Real Estate Assessment Asset Spreadsheet, which represents indicator RA3.

Waste Management
For the use of the digital twin to further operations efficiency, this can be reported as such as ‘Waste management’ and ‘Ongoing waste performance monitoring’ under the category ‘Waste’ if applicable.

Real-Time Data
Gain access to actual (not estimated) data to your buildings, which can help with the performance data (i.e. energy, GHG, water, waste) in terms of data coverage. Refer to this section of our 2023 Real Estate Assessment Reference Guide to see how data coverage plays a role in scoring of indicators EN1, GH1, WT1 and WS1.