Working together with GRESB, Industry Supporters help generate the market forces needed to promote ESG issues to industry stakeholders.
Template Letters Requesting Participation
By requesting participation in GRESB from your network you will be supporting greater transparency in the ESG performance of real estate and infrastructure portfolios and assets. We thank you for collaborating with us.
We have created template letters for you to download and send to your members and supporters:
Download Template Letter – Real Estate
Download Template Letter – Infrastructure
We also invite you use the 2018 GRESB Investor Members PDF in your communications:
Download 2018 GRESB Investor Members
2018 GRESB Assessment Timeline
Here is an overview of key dates and activities for the 2018 GRESB Assessment Cycle:
| Assessment Consultation and Development | JANUARY | Structured investor and industry consultation |
| GRESB Portal development | ||
| FEBRUARY | February 15: Pre-Release of Real Estate Assessment, Real Estate Developer Assessment, Infrastructure Fund Assessment, Infrastructure Asset Assessment and Debt Assessment | |
| Release of Asset Portal Guide, EPA Portfolio Manager to GRESB Converter Guide and API documentation for the Real Estate Assessment | ||
| GRESB Portal development | ||
| MARCH | March 1: Release of Resilience Module, Health & Well-being Module, and Assessment Reference Guides | |
| GRESB Assessment Training sessions | ||
| March 15: Assessment Portal closes for the GRESB Real Estate Pre-Assessment | ||
| Assessment Reporting Period | APRIL | April 1: Assessment Portal opens. Companies, funds and assets are invited to participate in the 2018 GRESB Assessments by logging into the Assessment Portal |
| Upon completion of all the sections in the Assessment participants are encouraged to request a Response Check | ||
| GRESB Assessment Training sessions | ||
| April 25: GRESB Siemens: Sustainable Real Assets Conference in London | ||
| MAY | Response Checks | |
| May 17: GRESB Siemens: Sustainable Real Assets Conference in Washington, D.C. | ||
| JUNE | June 8: Deadline to request a Response Check is midnight (PST) on June 8 | |
| June 15: Validation starts | ||
| June 26: GRESB Siemens: Sustainable Real Assets Conference in Sydney | ||
| Validation, Scoring and Benchmarking | JULY | July 1: Assessment Portal closes. All submissions must be received by midnight (PST) on July 1, 2018 at the latest. Unfortunately, GRESB cannot accept any submissions received after this date. |
| AUGUST | Validation ends | |
| Scoring and benchmarking | ||
| Assessment Results | SEPTEMBER | September 5: Launch of the Assessment Results |
| Participants have the option to request a Results Review | ||
| Public results events - all regions | ||
| Assessment Consultation | OCTOBER | Public results events - all regions |
| Participants provide feedback on Assessment content, products and services | ||
| Assessment Portal opens for the GRESB Real Estate Pre-Assessment | ||
| Structured investor and industry consultation | ||
| GRESB Data Insights Training sessions | ||
| NOVEMBER | Structured investor and industry consultation | |
| Aggregation and analysis of feedback | ||
| GRESB Data Insights Training sessions | ||
| Start of preparation for the 2019 Assessment cycle | ||
| DECEMBER | Structured investor and industry consultation | |
| GRESB Portal development |