RP2.1: Sustainability-Related Incident Monitoring- Construction

Maximum Score

Determined by materiality

Prefill

Eligible

Validation

Evidence not required. Other answer is manually validated.

2026 Updates

None

Does the entity have a process to monitor and communicate sustainability-related controversies, misconduct, penalties, incidents, accidents, or breaches against the codes of conduct/ethics?

Assessment Instructions

Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?

This indicator assesses whether the entity has a defined process to monitor and communicate sustainability-related controversies, misconduct, penalties, incidents, accidents, or breaches of codes of conduct to its stakeholders. Effective external communication is an important management control that provides transparency around regulatory risks and liabilities.

Recurring issues of this nature can increase the entity’s risk profile by creating reputational, compliance, and financial exposure.

Input: How do I complete this indicator?

Select Yes or No: If selecting 'Yes', select applicable sub-options.

Open text box: The content of this open text box is not used for scoring, but will be included in the Benchmark Report. Participants may use this open text box to provide additional detail on the process the entity follows to communicate sustainability-related misconduct to its stakeholders.

Terminology

Accident

An unplanned, undesired event that results in damage or injury.

Clients/customers

A customer is understood to include end-customers (consumer) as well as business-to-business customers.

Code of conduct/ethics

An agreement on rules of behavior for the employees of the entity.

Community/public

Persons or groups of people living and/or working in any areas that are economically, socially or environmentally impacted (positively or negatively) by the entity’s operations.

Contractors

Persons or organizations working onsite or offsite on behalf of an entity. A contractor can contract their own workers directly, or contract sub-contractors or independent contractors.

Controversy

Public allegation and/or litigation that could negatively impact the entity’s reputation.

Employee(s)

Someone who works directly for the asset and receives compensation in the form of an hourly wage or annual salary for their work. This can be both onsite or offsite (such as in an administration office). Employers typically have to pay specific benefits such as contributions to pensions or taxes for employees. Employees may be either full time or part time and may operate on a short term contract.

Sustainability fines and/or penalties

Sanctions resulting from an illegal act or non-compliant behavior, which directly harms the environment and/or stakeholders of the entity.

Incident

An unplanned, undesired event with actual or potential adverse impacts.

Investors/shareholders

The entity’s current investors and/or equity stake owners in the entity.

Misconduct

Unacceptable or improper behavior, especially by an employee or organization.

Penalty

A punishment imposed for breaking a law, rule, or contract.

Special interest groups

Organization with a shared interest or characteristic (e.g. trade unions, non- governmental organizations).

Suppliers

Organization upstream from the reporting entity (i.e., in the entity’s supply chain), which provides a product or service that is used in the development of the entity’s own products or services. Note that for the purposes of this assessment, 'suppliers' only refers to tier 1 suppliers with whom the entity has a direct commercial relationship.

Validation: What evidence is required?

No evidence required.

Other Answer

The ‘Other’ answer provided will be subject to manual validation.

List applicable parties that would be notified of misconduct, penalties, incidents, accidents or breaches, but that is not already listed. Ensure that the ‘Other’ answer provided is not a duplicate or subset of another option (e.g. “Local residents” when “‘Community/Public” ” is selected).

Scoring

Scoring: How does GRESB score this indicator?

The scoring of this indicator is equal to the fraction assigned to the selected option, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.

Other Answer

The 'Other' answer is manually validated and assigned a score which is used as a multiplying factor, as per the table below:

Validation status	Score
Accepted	1/1
Not Accepted	0
Duplicate	0

Any ‘Other’ answer provided will be manually validated and must be accepted before achieving the respective fractional score. If multiple ‘Other’ answers are listed, more than one may be accepted in manual validation, but only one will be counted towards the score.

Phase Materiality-based Scoring

Specific materiality weightings are assigned to the indicator depending on whether the entity reported to be in its construction or pre-construction phase under the Asset Development Phase section of indicator RC4. The weightings are set at one of two levels as shown below:

• No relevance (unscored) - pre-construction phase

• Medium relevance (scored at medium weighting) - construction phase

Where the indicator is of ‘No relevance’, and therefore the entity has reported to be in its pre-construction phase, it is not considered for scoring. If the indicator is of ‘Medium relevance’, and therefore the entity has reported to be in its construction phase, the indicator counts towards the score with ‘standard’ weighting. This ensures that the evaluation of a project’s sustainability is contextually nuanced and reflective of the project’s unique circumstances and at any given point in its development lifecycle.

Scoring Basics

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References

PRI Reporting Framework 2018, Direct Infrastructure Supplement, INF 19

DSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) - 3.4.1 Codes of Conduct

SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) - 3.4.4 Systems/Procedures

GRI Standards 2016 - 102-17: Mechanisms for advice and concerns about ethics

GRI Standards 2016 - 205-2: Communication and training about anti-corruption policies and procedures

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