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How can property owners meet the growing demand for environmental, social and governance performance accountability from residents, tenants and investors? Yardi client representatives who lead ESG reporting for their organizations and an official from GRESB, the ESG benchmark for real estate assets, recently offered some insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliette Apicella, director of sustainability for Atlanta-based apartment owner and manager Gables Residential Services, was one of three industry experts who appeared on a YASC Global panel. \u201cMore investors are interested in details about our ESG policies and achievements,\u201d she said. That prompted the company to use ESG as \u201ca tool that helps us monitor our assets\u2019 environmental performance as a driver of returns.\u201d Gables has stepped up its recruitment of employees, partners and residents in the effort to incorporate environmental priorities into its operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another panelist, Jennifer Plesnicar, vice president for Chicago-area industrial developer and manager CenterPoint Properties Trust, sounded a similar note: \u201cESG is becoming more important each year\u201d among multiple company stakeholders. \u201cHow a company responds to ESG expectations can impact operations ranging from borrowing rates to talent attraction and tenant retention,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The widespread attention to ESG is \u201cpushing the real estate industry forward,\u201d said the third panelist, Dan Winters, head of Americas for GRESB, which collects and validates data and disseminates it to more than 150 institutional real estate investors around the world. \u201cGetting accurate ESG data<\/a>, rolling it up to the portfolio level and sharing it with the industry increases insight for a company, which appeals to its institutional investors, and also provides better outcomes for GRESB participants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overcoming data gathering challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All panelists agreed that the principal challenge to managing an organization\u2019s ESG performance is gathering, tracking and disseminating the consumption data necessary to formulate ESG actions. \u201cA lot of data components are stored in different systems, so the first hurdle we addressed was getting it in one place,\u201d Plesnicar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing able to demonstrate how sustainability upgrades can positively impact both the environment and the bottom line makes it easier to partner with tenants as we negotiate leases and construct buildings for them, too,\u201d she added, noting that CenterPoint collaborates with its tenants and uses Yardi\u2019s ENERGY STAR\u00ae services to aggregate whole building data for GRESB and other stakeholders who need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollecting and assessing ESG performance data is important to Gables\u2019 core values and to our investors, many of whom have their own sustainability goals such as net zero,\u201d said Apicella, whose company has participated in GRESB for 10 years and is committed to achieving net zero status by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Consolo, industry principal for Yardi Energy, moderated the panel and discussed the company\u2019s role in improving ESG performance for its clients. \u201cOur technology simplifies the aggregation of whole building data collection and reporting for ESG. The first step is gathering data from multiple sources and identifying efficient and inefficient buildings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cTracking the asset\u2019s performance over time is also critically important. As an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award<\/a> winner that has achieved ENERGY STAR certifications<\/a> for its own office properties, Yardi has the expertise to work with utilities and our client building owners, tenants and residents on these priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Yardi became one of nine (now 10) sustainability consultants and solution providers in GRESB\u2019s Global Partner program. The company helps GRESB participants complete sustainability assessments and shares sustainability best practices across the property management industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Yardi\u2019s comprehensive energy management solutions for residential<\/a> and commercial<\/a> properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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