📊 Asset-level performance continues to strengthen how investors and managers understand energy efficiency and year-over-year progress across their portfolios. Findings that Chris Pyke, Chief Innovation Officer at GRESB, highlighted at the 2025 GRESB Regional Insights – Toronto show that, among 7,700 Canadian assets reported in 2025, 16% met or exceeded the ASHRAE 100 Standard for energy efficiency. Pointing to the GRESB Foundation’s work toward applying this framework to more performance areas in the year ahead. See Chris’s full post below 👇
GRESB has leaned into asset-level performance over the last 2 years. This provides investors and managers with new ways to understand and communicate essential performance metrics, including energy use intensity, GHG emissions, water consumption, and waste. Here's an example of what we can learn from my presentation at our EVORA Global-hosted Regional Insight event in Toronto, Canada: In 2025, Canadian managers reported measured, operational performance for 7,700 individual assets, roughly 20,000-35,000 individual buildings: • 16% of assets met or exceeded the ASHRAE 100 Standard for energy efficiency • 38% earned recognition for year-over-year improvement in energy efficiency • 46% did not receive recognition via either pathway The combination of approaches allows investors and managers to understand whether assets are currently high performing, improving faster than peers, or need more attention. The GRESB Foundation will apply this framework to more performance areas in the year ahead.