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What Spire measures, and how it is scored

Four pillars

Everyone a building touches — and who that is depends on the sector.

The four pillars are the same everywhere. Who sits inside them is not: workforce means care staff in senior living and a small hospitality team in an office, and an office has tenants where a residential building has residents.

  1. Students living at the property.

    Often living away from home for the first time. Study space, sleep, safety, and whether the building produces a community or just a corridor of rooms.

  2. The hospitality staff who run the building.

    Front desk, cleaning, maintenance, community managers. A young, high-turnover workforce where conditions and progression show up directly in resident experience.

  3. The neighbourhood the students live in.

    Town-and-gown relations, noise, local employment and whether the scheme is absorbed into the area or resented by it.

  4. The contractors keeping it running.

    Outsourced cleaning, security and maintenance, scored where those services sit outside the operator's own payroll.

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Asset and effort

Every pillar is scored twice: on what the building is, and on what its operator does.

It is the split that lets an older asset with excellent management outscore a new one that was built well and then left alone.

Asset indicators

All indicators pertaining to the physical characteristics of the building.

Effort indicators

All programming, services, or organised events beyond the passive, physical characteristics of the building.

User Facilitating AmenitiesResidents
Asset indicator · RA2

User Facilitating Amenities

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Stimulating Community EngagementResidents
Effort indicator · RE1

Stimulating Community Engagement

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See how asset and effort are scored

Built on proven expertise

The framework is new. The people behind it are not.

Spire was designed by people who have built industry-wide measurement before, alongside operators and investors who know what an assessment has to survive in practice.

Founders

  • Dr. Martijn Stroom

    Founder and CEO, Spire

    Ph.D. in Real Estate Finance (2023). Leading Spire since 2021.

  • Dr. Nils Kok

    Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University

    Co-founder of GRESB (2009), founding team GeoPhy (2016), Investment Committee BPF Bouw.

  • Jill Brosig

    Chief Innovation Officer, Harrison Street

    Senior Managing Director of all global Harrison Street impact initiatives.

Advisory board

  • Dr. Jacques Gordon

    Director of the Graaskamp Center

    Former Global Strategist at LaSalle Investment Management.

  • Dr. Chris Pyke

    Chief Innovation Officer, GRESB

    Former Vice President of Research at the U.S. Green Building Council.

  • Fulya Kocak

    Owner and CEO, Fulya Kocak LLC

    Former Senior Vice President ESG at NAREIT.

  • Lauren Winkler

    Founder and Managing Partner, Library Ave Consulting

    Former Senior Director ESG and Innovation at Green Cities Company.

Sector and impact

  • Lauren Winkler

    Founder and Managing Partner, Library Ave Consulting

    Former Senior Director ESG and Innovation at Green Cities Company.

  • Rachel Mavrothalasitis

    Principal and Founder, Reach&Root Partners

    Chief Operating Officer at the Multifamily Impact Council.