Current Issue
Envizi does not natively support landlord/tenant delineation at the Account level. For enterprise clients managing investor real estate portfolios, where landlords and tenants share buildings and utility infrastructure, this creates three compounding gaps. First, Envizi cannot distinguish who pays a utility bill (the property manager or the tenant), so every data gap looks identical regardless of who is responsible for resolving it. Second, Envizi cannot store rented floor area per tenant or link it to the Accounts that serve that space, preventing the area-weighted intensity calculations (kWh/ft², kgCO₂e/m²) required for investor disclosure. Third, data completeness views aggregate all Accounts at the Location level, making it impossible to report landlord-controlled completeness and tenant-controlled completeness as separate figures, a distinction that is required by GRESB, SFDR, CRREM, CDP, Energy Star, and TCFD.
The only available workaround, Envizi's consolidation tag function, is not fit for this purpose. Tags store a label and a reporting percentage; they cannot hold a numeric floor area value, cannot simultaneously produce a landlord view and a tenant view from a single Account, cannot reclassify GHG Scope attribution by billing entity, and cannot respond to lease start and end dates when a tenant changes. At portfolio scale, with hundreds of Locations and thousands of Accounts, this forces clients to maintain parallel spreadsheets outside of Envizi to perform the attribution and completeness calculations that investor reporting requires.
Proposed Solution
Add two structured fields to in-scope Accounts, Billing Entity (Landlord or Tenant) and Supplied Area Type (Tenant Space, Common Area, Whole Building, Outdoor/Parking, etc.), and introduce a new joinable Tenant Table as an additive dimension alongside Envizi's existing Location–Account model. The Tenant Table would hold rented floor area (expressed in a valid unit of measure), lease start date, lease end date, and follow-up status, joined to Accounts via Tenant ID and to Locations via Location ID. This is an additive architecture: no existing Location–Account structure changes, and the capability is opt-in at the portfolio, fund, or Location level so that occupier and standard corporate programs are completely unaffected.
With these additions, Envizi would be able to apportion consumption from a single landlord-controlled Account across multiple tenants using area-weighted ratios derived from the Tenant Table; produce data completeness views filtered by billing entity natively in the platform; classify GHG emissions correctly: landlord-controlled electricity as Scope 2 and tenant-attributable consumption as Scope 3 Category 13 (downstream leased assets) for the investor's own GHG Protocol reporting; and reconcile Account-to-tenant mappings automatically when monthly property management feeds update lease dates, eliminating manual re-tagging at every tenant changeover.
Business Value
Institutional investor reporting is one of the fastest-growing use cases for ESG platforms, and it requires a level of attribution precision that Envizi's current Location–Account model does not support. Any enterprise client operating a multi-tenant portfolio under an investor mandate, whether managing industrial assets, office buildings, retail centers, or mixed portfolios, faces the same structural gap: without billing entity separation and floor area attribution at the Account level, completeness reporting is meaningless, intensity metrics are unreliable, and GHG Scope classification is incorrect. These are not client-specific customizations; they are foundational requirements shared across the investor segment.
The proposed capability would enable Envizi to natively produce the outputs required by GRESB (split completeness by landlord and tenant area coverage), SFDR (area-weighted portfolio energy intensity), CRREM (asset-level carbon intensity benchmarked against Paris alignment pathways), CDP (Scope 1, 2, and 3 Category 13 by billing responsibility), Energy Star (whole-building EUI with separate coverage reporting), and TCFD (emissions attribution by control across assets under management). One capability set, delivered additively without disrupting existing clients, would position Envizi as a viable platform for the institutional investor segment that currently requires purpose-built alternatives to meet these reporting obligations.
