GRESB is pleased to announce that as of 2025 all Assessments will allow documentation from participants in languages other than English. Through the introduction of the Google Cloud Translation API, GRESB is now capable of translating files from over 100+ language pairs. See supported languages here.
The following file types are eligible for upload to the GRESB Portal in a non-English language:
- Microsoft word: .docx / .doc
- Powerpoint: .pptx / .ppt
- Excel: .xlsx / .xls
- PDF: .pdf
- Text: .text
Note on images: Quality of image translation within files cannot be guaranteed and produces mixed results in translation. Therefore, GRESB strongly recommends avoiding the use of any documents containing images with important text contained within them in non-English languages. Text from images that cannot be translated by the Google Cloud Translation API will not be usable by the GRESB validation team and may lead to a rejected validation outcome in the corresponding Benchmark Report.
Note on open-text box responses: When typing in responses for the various text boxes in the Portal, entities should still report their accompanying text in English where possible.