Our Impact

How do they measure ESG?

GRESB measures the ESG performance of real estate and infrastructure assets globally. These assets are then rated based on their performance against agreed standards and included in a globally recognized GRESB ESG Benchmark for real estate and infrastructure.

Other ESG efforts

GRESB established an independent foundation comprised of industry members whose function is to approve or disapprove new ESG standards developed by GRESB for performance measurement. Foundation board members are rotated every 2 years. Selection is completely autonomous from GRESB, and members are chosen by industry representatives.

GRESB’s independent approach ensures that standards are maintained at the highest level, are constantly evolving, and underpin credible performance ratings requiring asset owners to ensure they manage sustainable assets.

How do they measure ESG?

ASL measures the performance of consumer products in relation to indoor air quality. ASL, in partnership with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), develop rigorous scientific testing criteria which is applied to consumer products as part of the testing programme. Consumer products that pass the rigorous testing receive a certification describing them as "Asthma and Allergy Friendly". This certification plays a vital role in allowing consumers to understand which products are suitable for asthma patients because it is backed by an independent industry body like AAFA.

Other ESG efforts

ASL have developed a proprietary educational portal to educate manufacturers and consumers about the benefits from using consumer products that improve the quality of indoor air.

How do they measure ESG?

As a company that attaches importance to transparency, BMA documents all their environmental protection activities in an easily verifiable way. They aim to make all internal processes energy efficient. ESG is a major topic for internal and external communication at BMA.

Other ESG efforts

Since 1978, the BMA Foundation has been providing support to young scientists, as well as training, education and childcare.

BMA employees do not have to choose between their family or their career. They can leave their children in the loving care of the Kinder-Werk crèche staff. In setting up the crèche facility and Kinder-Werk joint project in 2009, BMA took initiative in a society that is increasingly striving to achieve compatibility between family and career.

PRO ASS, a service company of the BMA Group, provides young people with a good professional education, while guaranteeing high-quality further training or retaining opportunities for adults in mechanical and plant engineering. The training options offered by PRO ASS are not only available to BMA employees, trainees and apprentices, but to companies in the entire Braunschweig region, who can benefit from BMA training workshops and their competent teaching staff — they provide truly beneficial services not just to individual BMA workers, but to the whole region.

How do they measure ESG?

UTS takes steps to fulfil its environmental pledge. UTS has worked in collaboration with Applegate to calculate the emissions for each of the hundreds of thousands of products sold through its network.

Other ESG efforts

At the supply chain level, UTS is ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) and ISO 9001 (Quality Management) accredited,  and is working towards carbon neutrality. UTS has converted 65% of its sites to use 100% renewable energy and is installing smart meters. UTS has minimised travel by implementing digital communications (Teams, Zoom, etc), and can boast that 33% of its electric fleet is either electric or hybrid. It is working towards a fully electric fleet by 2024.

UTS influenced paperless invoicing in 2020, and is working to eradicate paper usage by digitalising all areas of the business. It offers several free environmental services, including spill control, waste management, recycling programmes, energy surveys, PPE surveys and more. Its partnership with the National Trust offers customers environmental planting in exchange for spending.