GRESB Quarterly, Americas | Measurabl on a New Path Forward for Real Estate Sustainability; GRESB & iMasons Partner to Launch New Data Center Benchmark; GRESB in Latin America

The 2025 GRESB Assessment reporting season is quickly coming to a close. Across the Americas, participants and their consultants are hard at work finalizing consumption data, validation responses, and submitting their 2024 data into the GRESB Portal. GRESB is here to support you every step of the way. Our Member Success team ([email protected]) is ready to assist with any questions you may have.

This year, we’ve enhanced many of our Assessment resources—thanks to your feedback—to make the reporting experience more streamlined, insightful, and effective. At the same time, our GRESB Partner ecosystem continues to expand at an ever-increasing rate. These expert organizations offer hands-on support for participants of all sizes as they complete the Assessment. If you’d like help in finding the right GRESB Partner, visit our Partner Directory or contact us for any recommendations we may have based on your situation.

As a reminder, the Assessment period closes on July 1. While the effort is significant, the value it delivers—to your organization, your investors, and the industry at large—is even greater. Everyone at GRESB is committed to delivering a smooth and successful close to the 2025 reporting cycle. Here in the Americas, our team is proud to serve this growing community of leaders advancing sustainability and resilience across real assets.

Looking ahead, we’re also excited to reconnect with many of you in person at our GRESB Regional Insights events across the Americas this fall. These events bring together investors, managers, partners, and industry leaders to explore the latest GRESB results, market trends, and regional insights. More information and save-the-dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

Wishing everyone a smooth conclusion to your GRESB reporting process.

Sincerely,

Tom Idzal
Head of Americas
GRESB

ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager (ESPM) has served the real estate industry well—facilitating performance benchmarking, supporting regulatory compliance, and enabling green lending across more than 330,000 buildings. As the program now faces potential elimination, the industry is being asked to consider something it hasn’t before: How should we define and manage sustainability performance in the years ahead? The moment invites a broader conversation about what’s needed to meet today’s challenges—more timely, standardized, and globally consistent tools that reflect the scale and complexity of modern real estate.

Drawing from conversations with owners, investors, and partners, GRESB Global Partner Measurabl outlines five foundational principles for building the next generation of sustainability infrastructure. Whether or not ESPM remains, the questions raised are worth asking—and the decisions made now will shape the future of data, risk mitigation, and value creation across the built environment.

Read the full article.

As the future of ENERGY STAR faces uncertainty, GRESB supports ongoing efforts to ensure its continued role in the market.

For US and Canadian asset managers, ENERGY STAR is the industry standard and has long served as a critical piece of infrastructure—delivering immense value to both the public and the real assets market for decades, resulting in better performance and generating billions in energy cost savings and value for private asset owners.

GRESB is committed to supporting a future where ENERGY STAR’s core functions are maintained and accessible. We encourage participants to stay informed, engage with industry efforts, and explore planning strategies for reporting continuity.

Read our full statement.

Last week, GRESB and Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) announced a strategic partnership to create the first global sustainability benchmark tailored to data center investments. As digital infrastructure grows in strategic importance, this new initiative will deliver sector-specific insights and trusted, comparable metrics to help investors and managers better assess sustainability performance and make informed decisions.

A pilot assessment is set for Q3 2025, with full market rollout expected in 2026. The benchmark is being developed in collaboration with a Working Group of 20+ leaders across automation, energy, tech, and asset management—focused on the sustainability challenges most material to data centers, including energy, water, and worker health and safety.

Read the full announcement.

The rapid growth of data centers is reshaping the built environment, bringing both opportunities and challenges for sustainability. From the surge in AI-driven demand to the sector’s intensifying energy footprint, investors are grappling with how to balance expansion with environmental responsibility. See below GRESB’s latest thought leadership and insights into data centers:

More on data centers:

• The data center boom threatens climate goals. How to fight back | Trellis
• Data centers are booming – with and without AI | Infrastructure Investor
• Investor-owned data centers: Sustainability strategies for the year ahead | Intelligent Data Centers
• Sustainability by the Numbers: How Esg Metrics Attract Capital to Data Centers | Data Center POST
• Byte-sized footprints: Sustainability considerations for data centers | IREI APAC
• Data centers need their own sustainability benchmark | PERE

Earlier Access to Infrastructure Assessment Data

GRESB has expanded the Data Exporter with a new 2025 Submitted Data feature, giving infrastructure investors and members earlier access to assessment data—immediately upon submission through the Data Exporter in the GRESB Portal. This enhancement supports proactive risk management, more efficient data workflows, and timely reporting and compliance.

Explore the new feature.

Improved Benchmark Reports 

The Benchmark Reports for both real estate and infrastructure are undergoing a series of important improvements as part of GRESB’s ongoing commitment to empowering your investment strategies with transparent, actionable data and deeper insights to help you build more resilient, efficient, and successful real assets portfolios.

Real estate participants will benefit from a redesigned, section-based layout and clearer visuals. Infrastructure reports will offer enhanced GHG emissions breakdowns, net-zero visualizations, and embedded guidance to support deeper analysis.

See what’s new in the Benchmark Reports.

New Residential Component for Real Estate Participants

This year, GRESB has launched a new Residential Component for real estate portfolios with more than 75% residential assets by GAV. Participants completing the module will receive the GRESB Benchmark Report and a standalone Sector Insight: Residential Report with performance indicators tailored to residential assets.

Learn more about the Residential Component.

Check out the latest episodes of The Pulse by GRESB:

• Inside GRESB for infrastructure: Understanding scoring in 2025
• Raising the bar: Key updates to the GRESB Building Certification evaluation process
• GRESB’s energy efficiency playbook: Key updates for 2025
• The case for clean energy: Incentives & opportunities for on-site renewables
• Transforming sustainability reporting: A look at the ESPM to GRESB toolkit
• The road travelled: Building GRESB’s Real Estate Standard

Or you can find the whole series on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.

Nature’s Value in Real Estate: Climate,
Community & Capital

Join GRESB and Longevity Partners on July 17 to dive into how biodiversity is reshaping sustainability and risk management in real estate.

This webinar will explore how new biodiversity indicators in the GRESB Assessments are driving structured disclosure and integration of nature-related risks. From regulation to regeneration, this session connects the dots between climate, nature, social impact, and capital for the built environment.

Register here.

New York Energy Week 2025
New York, NY | June 9-13

NYEW unites the global energy sector to inspire and facilitate collaborative action. Join Chris Pyke, Chief Innovation Officer at GRESB, along with senior executives from Building Minds, Schindler, VersusSol, and Tishman Speyer for an insightful session on “Data-Driven Decarbonization: Unlocking Value Across Real Estate & Infrastructure.”

2nd Annual Sustainable Investing Symposium| CFA Society Toronto
Toronto, Ontario | June 25

Join the 2nd Annual Sustainable Investing Symposium, sponsored by GRESB and Asset Impact, bringing together thought leaders, investors, and change-makers to explore how private investments in existing and novel climate technologies can shape a sustainable future while achieving market-rate financial returns.

Construverde 2025 | Colombian Sustainable Construction Council (CCCS)
Bogotá , Columbia | July 30-31

Construverde 2025 is bringing together top industry leaders from across Latin America to share ideas, success stories, and strategies that move the market forward. Robert Slowko, Director, Americas, will be delivering a keynote on the topic of how sustainability criteria can transform real estate investment.

RELPI/EXPO REAL German Investors Experience | Climate Group
New York, NY | July 30

Join top real estate investors and industry leaders for the German Investors Experience, hosted by DWS at the Deutsche Bank Center. This gathering offers curated panels led by German capital investors, providing insights into global real estate trends and the influence of German capital.

Climate Week NYC | Climate Group
New York, NY | September 21-28

Join global leaders from business, government, and the climate community for a world-leading event featuring hybrid and online events across ten key themes—from health and energy to finance and food.

How ESG is affecting the global Real Estate industry | Deloitte

Private capital managers ’emerging as strongest advocates for ESG and sustainable invesrting’ | IPE

Knight Frank: Financial returns key to ESG strategies | IREI (paywalled)

A data-center operator is future-proofing 300 facilities for the AI boom. Two executives share how they’re making it sustainable. | MSN

Residential investors seek the right balance of ESG and economic returns | PERE

Thanks to our Global Partner Measurabl for sponsoring and contributing to this newsletter.