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The State of Health Considerations in Commercial Real Estate

By Kelly Worden on 09 Dec 2016 • 4 minute read

At Greenbuild, GRESB released the results from their first ever Health & Well-being Module to provide insight into how property companies and funds around the world are promoting health and well-being. Real estate companies are positioned to promote health and well- …

GRESB Updates Green Bond Guidelines for the Real Estate Sector

By Dan Winters on 19 Oct 2016 • 3 minute read

At the close of the third quarter of 2016, the green bond market already outpaced the record-setting 2015 issuance and is projected to close the year with $70-80 billion in originations. Green property bonds have emerged as a key sector with year-to-date green property …

Five Key Takeaways from the New GRESB Health & Well-being Module

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 04 Oct 2016 • 5 minute read

The GRESB Health and Well-being Module is a new tool to understand how property companies and funds around the world are promoting health and well-being in their internal operations and through the real estate and services they offer to customers. The Module is predicat …

Climate Change Readiness in Canadian Real Estate: A Snapshot

By Mark Bessoudo on 15 Sep 2016 • 5 minute read

At the 2015 Paris climate conference (COP 21), the Canadian government worked with international partners to negotiate an effective and ambitious global agreement on climate change to hold the increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-indust …

What Obama, the Real Estate Sector, and 130 Investors Have in Common

By Nils Kok on 07 Sep 2016 • 7 minute read

While a typical summer is characterized by a lack of real news, leading the press to cover anything that’s even remotely newsworthy—or not – (we have a word for it in Dutch, “cucumber time”), the past two months have yielded enough stories to keep the average …

GRESB and WELL: Complementary Tools to Promote Transparency and Leadership on Health and Well-being

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 20 Jun 2016 • 3 minute read

Health and well-being has emerged as an important issue for real estate companies and funds. Investors and tenants have expressed interest and there is increasing recognition that the promotion of health and well-being can contribute to competitive differentiation, valu …

The Value of an Integrated Sustainability Strategy for Real Estate Companies and Funds

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 16 May 2016 • 2 minute read

Last week was time for the 2016 installment of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Better Building Summit. As in prior years, the Summit was full of friends and leaders from across the real estate industry. I had the opportunity to participate in a session moderated …

GRESB Introduces New Tools for ESG Reporting and Benchmarking

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 01 Apr 2016 • 2 minute read

Today, GRESB is excited to announce the beginning of the 2016 reporting season. This marks a milestone for GRESB with the release of four assessments and a new module. These tools represent a leap forward from a year ago when GRESB offered just one assessment for capita …

Health and Well-being: Why Are We Talking about It? And Where Are We Heading?

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 17 Mar 2016 • 3 minute read

Over the last year, the topic of health and well-being has rapidly emerged as a ubiquitous issue for the global real estate industry. There is a sense that it is the “next big thing”. The question here is why we are talking about this issue and where we go from here …

A Milestone for a New Global Standard: Pre-release of the GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 08 Mar 2016 • 2 minute read

It’s been 5 months since we announced the launch of GRESB Infrastructure. Now, we’ve reached a major milestone: the pre-release of the 2016 GRESB Infrastructure Assessment. This marks an important step forward in our effort to create a new global benchmark for the …

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