The Green Buildings Tool: What’s new?

In 2024, the Green Buildings Tool has taken another major step forward, introducing features that enhance usability, precision, and security. From expanded CRREM analysis and advanced portfolio management tools to enhanced accessibility and streamlined integrations, these updates empower users to navigate sustainability challenges with greater efficiency.

Let’s explore the new featuers of 2024 and see how the Green Buildings Tool continues to shape the future of sustainable real estate.

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• Strategic innovations
• Enhanced portfolio management
• User-friendly enhancements
• Security and reliability
• Global expansion and integration

Strategic innovations

This year’s updates include groundbreaking features that help users align with global sustainability targets and ensure the highest standards of security and compliance.

1. CRREM Module

The CRREM Module enables users to perform detailed analyses of how their buildings align with CRREM’s decarbonisation pathways. With year-by-year performance projections, users can plan and implement measures over time, ensuring compliance with CRREM targets. This feature helps close performance gaps, supports long-term carbon reduction strategies, and provides actionable insights to meet evolving decarbonisation standards.

2. SOC 2 certification

The Green Buildings Tool is now SOC 2 certified, reflecting our dedication to the highest standards of data security, availability, and confidentiality. Users can trust the tool’s robust security practices, ensuring a secure and reliable platform for managing sustainability projects.

3. Green Mark energy efficiency rating

The Green Buildings Tool now incorporates the Green Mark energy efficiency rating, enabling users to calculate energy efficiency scores based on Singapore’s recognised standards. This feature provides a reliable assessment of building performance and supports alignment with local sustainability benchmarks.

Enhanced portfolio management

Optimise your workflow and decision-making with tools designed to simplify data analysis and portfolio management.

4. Enhanced portfolio filters

A broader range of filters allows users to quickly identify and analyse buildings based on specific criteria such as energy efficiency measures, investment values, building types, and geographic regions. These filters streamline portfolio management, helping users focus on the most relevant data to prioritise actions and make informed decisions efficiently.

5. Improved PDF reporting for portfolios

Users can now generate detailed PDF reports at the portfolio level, summarising planned roadmaps, year-on-year EPC improvements, and scheduled sustainability measures. This feature simplifies stakeholder reporting, strategic planning, and compliance by delivering clear, structured insights into portfolio performance.

6. Bulk energy price updates

The tool now supports bulk updates of energy prices across entire portfolios. This functionality ensures that energy cost projections remain accurate, saving time and effort for users managing large datasets.

User-friendly enhancements

These updates improve accessibility, usability, and flexibility, ensuring a seamless experience for all users.

7. Green Buildings Tool Lite

The new Lite version of the Green Buildings Tool offers a streamlined, intuitive interface for analysing single buildings. Designed for single-use scenarios or users with less technical expertise, it delivers key insights and clear recommendations in a user-friendly format, simplifying energy performance evaluations.

8. Improved heating system options

Users can now refine and specify heating system types in greater detail. This improvement enables more accurate analysis and tailored recommendations for energy efficiency improvements.

9. Change display address

A new feature allows users to update and customise displayed addresses for buildings, improving data management, search functionality, and overall user experience.

Security and reliability

Strengthening data protection and improving inclusivity remain core priorities in the latest updates.

10. WCAG level AA approved tool

The Green Buildings Tool now fully meets WCAG Level AA accessibility standards, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users. The tool’s interface, functionality, and content are designed to accommodate diverse needs, making it easier for everyone to access and benefit from its features.

11. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

To enhance account security, the tool now supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with popular authenticator apps like Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator. This added layer of protection ensures that only authorised individuals can access sensitive data and tools.

Global expansion and integration

The Green Buildings Tool has been expanded and optimised to meet international standards and market-specific needs.

12. Country-specific extensions

Algorithms for Greece, Australia, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong have been refined and validated. These updates ensure more precise energy efficiency analyses and tailored recommendations that align with local standards and regulations.

13. Enhanced API for retail clients

The sustainable building API has been improved to cater to the retail market, including mortgage providers and homeowners. It delivers comprehensive energy performance insights, actionable recommendations, and the ability for clients to create customised applications. This enhancement fosters innovation and tailored energy solutions for residential properties.

With these 2024 updates, the Green Buildings Tool empowers users to achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals more effectively than ever. Whether managing a single building or a large portfolio, the enhanced features provide the tools, insights, and flexibility needed to drive meaningful progress.

Discover how the Green Buildings Tool can elevate your sustainability efforts today – get in touch for a demo!