Incentive

SSREI supports owners in aligning their properties with the increasingly stringent sustainability requirements and ensuring their long-term value retention. The Index is structurally based on the Swiss Sustainable Construction Standard (SNBS Building Construction), an instrument for implementing the Energy Strategy 2050. Adjusted for application to existing properties, the defined indicators and requirements allow a comprehensive assessment of the condition of a property (bottom-up approach) in the areas of society, economy and environment.

Outcome

The SSREI was launched with the aim of mapping the sustainability profile of existing Swiss real estate, standardising a corresponding assessment, enabling transparency and comparability in this regard and providing the market with an important benchmark.

Target groups

Real estate funds, joint-stock real estate companies, investment foundations, insurance companies, pension funds, public sector.

Validity

In order to be included in the SSREI, an annual, random sample-based verification by the SSREI audit committee and subsequent certification (external assurance) of the audit process by the SQS is required. A certificate is valid for one year.

Recognition

If existing real estate is assessed according to SSREI, the GRESB rating can be improved as well. The focus here is on recognition as a portfolio assessment methodology (RA1) and the equivalence of SSREI verification with an existing building certification (BC1.2). Anyone who subsequently uses the SSREI portfolio assessment tool for technical due diligence (RM4) also fulfils the requirements of GRESB.

Combinations

SSREI testing and certification is usually carried out as a "stand-alone" procedure without further standard combinations.