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  • Articles

    Establishing an embodied carbon strategy in the EU market

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  • Articles

    The CRREM North America Project: The top five things to know

    Figure 1: Boxplots showing the distribution of percentage of different energy types. Table 4: Emission Factors Calculation (AZNMc Example) Note: Res = residential; Com = commercial; EF = emission factor 

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  • Case Studies

    REAL Benchmarks: Eastnine Client Story

    “We acquired a property last year in a new market, Poland. And, still at this point, I have not been able to find any dataset on real energy performance for that market… I was quite excited to get hold of that data and see our standing with that benchmark.”

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  • Articles

    Embodied carbon in real estate: The other side of decarbonization

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  • Articles

    Embodied carbon in focus: Navigating investor and industry expectations

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  • Articles

    Solve the climate risk puzzle with Conservice  

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  • Articles, The Pulse by GRESB

    GRESB at 15: From early days to new ventures | The Pulse by GRESB

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  • Articles

    ANREV & GRESB on the influence of ESG on Asia Pacific Real Estate Fund Performance

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  • Articles

    The rise of sustainable building ordinances: Benchmarking, audits and retro-commissioning, and building performance standards

    Learn more about the National BPS Coalition. Sources: New York10 11 12, Boston13 14 15, Denver16 17 18 Sources: 19 20 21 Sources: New York22 23 24 25 26, Boston5 13 27 28, Denver9 29 30

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  • Articles

    Confronting embodied carbon’s data problem: How do we know where we stand?

    The Assembly approach to building is inherently productized, lending itself to deep supply chain investigation and Embodied Carbon tracking in a way conventional construction is not The benchmarking of Assembly OSM’s Standard Product Relies on very few comparable projects for comparison

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  • Articles

    2024 GRESB Global Results: Driving sustainable market change

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  • Articles

    Decarbonization & the need for quality asset-reporting data

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  • Articles, The Pulse by GRESB

    GRESB Results Consultation: Turning data into ESG excellence | The Pulse by GRESB

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  • Articles

    Operating efficiency: Where goals become action

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  • Articles

    Automated demand management: Your next-gen operational efficiency strategy

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  • Articles, The Pulse by GRESB

    Starting at the bottom: the GRESB origin story | The Pulse by GRESB

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  • Articles

    The synergy between building electrification and smart grid innovation

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  • Articles

    The essential guide to electrifying your existing building

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