GRESB Certification

Credit Categories

Where Praderama Adds GRESB Value

Our programs contribute across two core components of the GRESB Real Estate Assessment, generating measurable data that strengthens your submission.

Performance Component

Tenants & Community

The Performance Component evaluates how effectively your portfolio engages the people who occupy and surround your properties. Praderama programs create documented, recurring touchpoints with tenants and neighbors through nature based activities, educational workshops, and shared green spaces.

Stakeholder engagement through structured biodiversity events and community programming

Neighborhood outreach initiatives connecting properties to local ecological goals

Tenant participation programs with trackable attendance and satisfaction data

Development Component

ESG Requirements

The Development Component addresses how ESG principles are embedded into building projects and ongoing operations. Praderama supports this through documented biodiversity considerations and environmental stewardship that goes beyond basic compliance, providing verifiable data for your GRESB submission.

Biodiversity assessments and habitat creation aligned with environmental management goals

Environmental management documentation during development and retrofit phases

Species monitoring data that demonstrates ongoing ecological impact at each property

Why GRESB Matters

The Global Standard for Real Estate ESG

GRESB has become the definitive ESG benchmark for real estate and infrastructure portfolios worldwide. Performance on this assessment directly shapes how institutional investors evaluate and compare fund managers.

1,800+

Property companies and funds assessed globally each year

$6.9T

Total asset value represented across all GRESB participants

170+

Institutional investors using GRESB data for allocation decisions

How It Works

From Installation to GRESB Submission

Praderama makes it straightforward to generate the measurable outcomes that GRESB assessors look for. Three steps connect your properties to a stronger score.

Deploy Across Properties

We install managed bee habitats at your buildings, paired with educational signage and digital engagement tools for tenants and visitors. Each installation is documented with baseline ecological data.

Collect and Report Data

Our monitoring platform captures biodiversity metrics, tenant participation rates, and community engagement outcomes throughout the year. All data maps directly to GRESB indicator categories.

Strengthen Your Submission

We provide portfolio level reports formatted for your annual GRESB filing. Each data point is traceable to specific properties, giving assessors the evidence they need to award credit.

Investor Impact

How GRESB Scores Shape Capital Decisions

More than 170 institutional investors rely on GRESB data when allocating capital to real estate funds. A stronger score positions your portfolio favorably in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Benchmark Visibility

Investors compare GRESB scores across fund managers when evaluating ESG maturity and long term risk management.

Tangible ESG Outcomes

Praderama programs deliver documented, verifiable results that portfolio managers can point to as concrete evidence of sustainability performance.

Competitive Differentiation

Every fraction of a point matters. Biodiversity and tenant engagement credits are often underutilized areas where meaningful gains are achievable.

GRESB Score Impact

With Praderama

Tenant Engagement

+1.2 pts

Community Impact

+0.8 pts

Biodiversity Data

+0.6 pts

Portfolio Coverage

Scalable

Office Assets

92%

Retail Assets

78%

Mixed Use

85%

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You Need to Know About GRESB

Answers to the questions asset managers and ESG directors most commonly ask when working to strengthen their GRESB score through nature-based programs.

The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is the industry standard for assessing and comparing ESG performance across real estate portfolios. The framework uses a standardized, globally recognized methodology that gives institutional investors and stakeholders a reliable, comparable view of how a portfolio is managing its environmental, social, and governance responsibilities. A strong GRESB score has become an important signal of investment quality in the commercial real estate sector.

Our programs strengthen GRESB performance by integrating ESG priorities into tenant community activities, hosting events that raise environmental awareness among building occupants, supporting physical and mental health outcomes, monitoring biodiversity at the property level, and creating documented pollinator habitats with measurable ecological impact. These contributions advance performance across both the Management and Performance components of the GRESB assessment.

A stronger GRESB score increases a portfolio's marketability to sustainability-focused institutional investors, attracts tenants who prioritize ESG criteria in their real estate decisions, and improves operational efficiency across the portfolio. It also positions assets in alignment with the global ESG benchmarks that now play a significant role in how major investors allocate capital to commercial real estate.

Information on starting a GRESB assessment for your commercial property or portfolio is available directly on the GRESB website. The annual assessment cycle opens each year, and GRESB provides guidance on which indicators apply to different property types. Praderama's team can help align your biodiversity programming with the specific indicators that will have the most positive effect on your score and assist with the reporting documentation.