What's new in GRESB

Read about the enhancements that are released for GRESB each year and the associated impacts on IBM® Envizi ESG Suite.

What's new in GRESB 2024

In 2024, some moderate changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, with minimal related changes in the Envizi ESG Suite platform. For more information, see the 2024 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes. For a brief summary, see the 2024 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes Summary Table.

Envizi has upgraded the platform to work with the latest GRESB Real Estate framework changes:

Multiple energy ratings can be reported per asset
The year is required in building certifications
Introduction of reporting nonoperational EV charging consumption, separate from operational energy consumption
Change of property type from Office: Medical Office to Healthcare: Medical Office

In addition, the following enhancements have been released in 2024:

Bulk assets submission - data from more than ten locations can now be sent to GRESB at the same time from the GRESB Group Review (with API) page
Performance improvements for faster loading of the GRESB Asset Summary (with API) page, which has embedded API connections to the GRESB web portal
Bulk disable fields in multiple sections - use the DISABLE FIELDS form on the GRESB Group Review (with API) page to bulk disable the sending of GRESB responses in multiple sections

What's new in GRESB 2023

In 2023, some moderate changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, with minimal related changes in the Envizi ESG Suite platform. For more information, see the 2023 GRESB Real Estate Standard List of Changes.

GRESB Real Estate Assessment includes the following updates:

Changes to how off-site renewable energy is recognized
Percentage of asset ownership is now mandatory
Introducing two new property types: Industrial Distribution Warehouse – Refrigerated and Non-Refrigerated
New authorization process to allow GRESB data partners to connect to GRESB for data submissions

Envizi ESG Suite includes the following updates:

Updated authorization flow to connect Envizi to your reporting entities in GRESB portal - this must be done for the API to work this year
Group needs to be explicitly set to Active for GRESB data submission through API. The flag’s default value has been changed to Inactive.
Rearrangement of sub menu items under the Group > GRESB submenu, to facilitate an improved process flow for data capture and API submissions
Rearrangement of sub menu items under the Location submenu - GRESB related menus have been removed from the Benchmark submenu and moved to a standalone GRESB submenu.
Added support for joint venture assets submission

What's new in GRESB 2022

In 2022, minimal changes were made to GRESB Real Estate Assessment, and none of those changes affected the reporting of asset data.

At the beginning of March 2022, Envizi ESG Suite released updated questions that are now available to capture updated asset data including building certifications, efficiency measures and reporting characteristics.

Also this year, Envizi ESG Suite has added a new feature to cover the data quality requirements outlined in Appendix 7 - Estimation Methodology of the GRESB Real Estate Assessment. For more information, see GRESB Asset Summary.