What's new in GRESB
GRESB 2024
New this year
This year there has been moderate changes to the Real Estate Assessment, and with minimal changes related to the use of Envizi’s platform. A brief summary of GRESB Real Estate standard 2024 changes can be found on GRESB’s web site here. As usual, Envizi has upgraded the platform to work with the latest GRESB Real Estate framework changes:
Multiple energy ratings can be reported per asset
‘Year’ is required in building certifications
Introduction of reporting non-operational EV charging consumption, separated from operational energy consumption
Change of property type from ‘Office: Medical Office’ to 'Healthcare: Medical Office'
In addition, the following enhancements have been released this year:
Bulk assets submission - data from more than 10 locations can now be sent to GRESB at the same time from the ‘GRESB Group Review (with API)’ page
Performance improvements for the ‘GRESB Asset Summary (with API)’ page - it is expected that the page (which has embedded API connections to the GRESB web portal) shall load approximately 50% faster than before
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
GRESB 2023
New this year from GRESB Real Estate Standards
This year there has been moderate changes to the Real Estate Assessment, but with minimal changes related to the use of Envizi’s platform:
Changes to how off-site Renewable Energy is being recognized
Percentage of Asset Ownership now becomes 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
New this year from Envizi
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 via API. The flag’s default value has been changed to ‘Inactive’.
Re-arrangement of sub menu items under the Group → GRESB sub menu, to facilitate an improved process flow for data capture and API submissions
Re-arrangement of sub menu items under the Location sub menu - GRESB related menus have been removed from the ‘Benchmark’ sub menu and moved to a standalone GRESB sub menu
GRESB 2022
New this year
This year there has been minimal changes to the Real Estate Assessment, and none of those changes affected reporting of asset data.
At the beginning of March 2022 Envizi released updated questions that are now available to capture updated asset data including building certifications, efficiency measures and reporting characteristics.
Also this year, Envizi has added a new feature to cover the data quality requirements outlined in Appendix 7 - Estimation Methodology of the assessment. More information on this can be found on the GRESB Asset Summary page.