Nova Named Official GRESB Solution Provider: Advancing Sustainable Real Asset Performance
- Feb 11
- 3 min read
We’re excited to announce that Nova Group, GBC has been officially recognized as a GRESB Solution Provider, strengthening our commitment to delivering high-quality environmental, engineering, and sustainability advisory services to real asset managers worldwide.
As a newly designated GRESB Solution Provider, Nova is proud to bring specialized expertise, data quality, and on-site insight that aligns directly with the evolving needs of real estate and infrastructure investors. GRESB’s Solution Provider program was created to connect real asset managers with organizations that deliver targeted sustainability tools, technologies, and services designed to drive measurable ESG improvements beyond the annual GRESB Assessment.
What Nova Delivers as a GRESB Solution Provider
GRESB Solution Providers exist to help asset managers move beyond disclosure toward meaningful, measurable progress. Nova does this by enabling stronger scoring across the GRESB Management & Policy and Performance components through targeted, data-driven sustainability services, including:
✅ High‑Quality, On-Site ESG Data Collection
Nova’s globally distributed team of certified professionals conducts in-person, asset-level assessments to ensure consistent, high-quality data across diverse portfolios. These hands-on evaluations provide the granular performance information required to meet—and exceed—GRESB’s rigorous data coverage and data‑quality indicators.
✅ Decarbonization & Net Zero Planning
Nova delivers asset-specific decarbonization assessments that include:
System-level inventories
Capital‑planning alignment
Efficiency performance modeling
Recommendations that reduce energy use, GHG emissions, water consumption, and waste generation
These measures directly enhance GRESB Performance Component scores by demonstrating verifiable year-over-year improvements.
✅ Climate Risk & Resilience Expertise
Nova’s integrated services help clients evaluate physical climate risk, regulatory exposure, and portfolio resilience—critical components for GRESB reporting and long-term strategic planning.
✅ Regulatory Readiness & ESG Reporting Support
Our sustainability advisory team helps organizations address evolving regulations and investor expectations while preparing audit-ready ESG documentation aligned with GRESB indicators, such as:
Data coverage and validation
Target setting
Policy implementation
Performance improvement tracking
Industry-Leading Certifications & Credentials That Strengthen GRESB Scores
Nova’s multidisciplinary team of experts hold credentials that ensure high-quality, audit-ready data and reporting aligned to GRESB indicators for data coverage, target setting, management, and performance year-over-year, including:
✔️ GRESB Accredited Professional (GRESB AP)
✔️ WELL AP
✔️ Fitwel Ambassador
✔️ LEED AP
✔️ SBTi Expert
✔️ Certified Energy Managers (CEM)
✔️ ISO 14064 Lead Verifiers and Auditors
✔️ Licensed BREEAM In‑Use Assessors
These certifications ensure that Nova’s recommendations and assessments adhere to globally recognized best practices and directly support GRESB-aligned outcomes.
How Nova Strengthens Asset Value Through GRESB‑Aligned Services
Becoming a GRESB Solution Provider reinforces Nova’s long-standing commitment to integrating sustainability into every phase of the real estate asset lifecycle. Our work helps clients:
☑️ Minimize financial and environmental risk
☑️ Improve operational efficiency
☑️ Elevate ESG disclosures and benchmarking results
☑️ Build long-term resilience across portfolios
By addressing energy and water intensity, decarbonization pathways, waste reduction, and climate risk management, Nova ensures clients can demonstrate measurable progress—precisely what GRESB assessments are designed to reward.
Why This Partnership Matters
The real asset industry faces rising expectations from investors, regulators, and communities. GRESB Solution Providers are specifically selected to help organizations meet those expectations by turning sustainability strategies into real-world results. GRESB highlights Solution Providers as key partners that offer targeted services, operationalize sustainability practices, and help managers respond effectively to emerging environmental and regulatory challenges.
As part of this global network, Nova is proud to contribute our specialized capabilities, multidisciplinary expertise, and commitment to sustainability excellence to help shape the future of sustainable real assets and continue to empower clients to improve their ESG performance and create lasting value.
Looking Ahead
Becoming a GRESB Solution Provider marks an important milestone in Nova’s continued mission to advance environmental performance across the commercial real estate sector. We look forward to deepening our collaboration with GRESB members and delivering the high-impact solutions needed to drive resilience, transparency, and long-term value.
Learn more about Nova’s sustainability and GRESB-aligned services:
📄 Nova GRESB Solution Provider Brochure: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:6b96d9d7-0d83-4be7-aa43-6f1820b898c2
Ready to improve your GRESB scores? Contact us today to learn how Nova can help you turn site-level action into higher GRESB scores.
🪪 Keely Felton
Chief Sustainability Officer
🪪 Thomas Fiorentino-Strawn, GRESB AP
Vice President, Industrial Hygiene Services Group
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