Increasing Your Score
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Increasing Your Score
The GRESB benchmark changes year over
year in order to push firms to improve
based on the average of the former year's
scores. The benchmark is only contingent
on other similar types of assets so firms
will not be unfairly compared across
diverse portfolios. Being as transparent as
possible, as realistic as possible, and in
touch with where the industry is at today
(aka where the benchmark could fall) is
key to improving the score you receive
each year.
Increase Data Coverage: Acquiring
additional data presents a huge
opportunity to boost your scores, as a
substantial 30% of your overall score relies
on the extent of data coverage. Improving
overall data coverage can influence your
score by 61% with increased data on
"Waste Diverted" as the easiest way to
increase your GRESB Score. Industrial and
retail sectors may wish to incentivize
tenants to report on their energy and
utility metrics with automated access to
utility data.
Increase Data Accuracy: Emphasizing
accurate disclosure of performance
metrics such as water, waste, energy, and
GHG emissions is very important.
Opportunities for score improvement can
come from better, more automated data
Biggest opportunities for improving scores
acquisition and operationalizing data
management.
Focus on the questions that you
answered "no" to during the previous
GRESB reporting period: Being able to
answer "yes" to these will help boost your
score and increase performance.
Look out for new modules: GRESB will
soon be introducing a new Resilience
Module and other new scoring indicators.
These new sets of questions will open up
new avenues for your performance to
increase.
Additional Resources:
The 2025 GRESB Standards &
Reference Guides
WatchWire GRESB Capabilities
Blog
WatchWire GRESB Factsheet
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