Chris, Paul and Ed established Sustainable Commercial Solutions to offer dedicated end-to-end sustainability consultancy to the real estate investment market. Through the combination of strategy, data analytics and reporting, its aim was to put sustainability on the map as a professional service for the real estate industry.
EVORA Global is a professional real asset sustainability consultancy. Since our inception, twelve years ago we have grown from three founding partners to a team of over 200 passionate and empowered professionals, with common values to support one another as a cohesive team which enables us to provide the best possible solutions and services to our clients.
Through a clear focused approach, we are able to provide an end to end, full service sustainability offering to the real estate sector encompassing strategy, data management and reporting and building optimisation through a unique combination of resource expertise and our own proprietary software, SIERA.
We have worked with many real estate organisations over the past ten years mobilising and managing sustainability data for approximately 8000 assets across 38 countries. We work with many global companies, with business fluency in 6 languages and offices in Germany, Italy, and New York, further extending our worldwide reach and capability.
2011
founding year
10
offices globally
200+
passionate individuals
8000
assets on SIERA
EVORA Timeline
2011
2013
EVORA’s proprietary sustainability data management software, SIERA was launched, being developed uniquely for the real estate investment market.
2015
The company was appointed by Schroders to provide EVORA’s first comprehensive consulting and SIERA software pan European mandate, developing and executing Schroders European ESG strategy.
2016
Having been told they were the best-kept secret in the market, management invested significantly in marketing, leading to the name change to EVORA, or Evolution of Real Assets (through the impact of ESG).
2018
Formalised specific service and product lines to provide centres of excellence to drive consistency and best practice across the business. This has also enabled further investment in existing products and services as well as innovation in new areas to further expand its capabilities and end to end offerings to the real estate market.
2019
Between 2019 to 2021 EVORA expanded its Board capability with the appointment of Robin Morris-Weston as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Philippa Gill as Executive Director for Europe and Sonny Masero as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).
Early 2019
The Climate Resilience Services (CRS) service line was created to address the risks and opportunities of climate change for the real estate investment market, with specialisms in Net Zero Carbon, Physical Climate Risk and TCFD. The team has grown from an initial two individuals to 15 specialist professionals.
September 2019
EVORA extended its ESG capability to the broader real asset class of infrastructure with the appointment of Matthew Brundle as Director to lead the business opportunity. In 2021, the service line supported more than 30 global infrastructure assets in the GRESB assessment.
2020
EVORA enhanced its reputation for strategic advice being recognised as having the unique ability to speak both ESG and real estate investment language enabling the company to provide meaningful and practical advice to asset and investment managers alike. This has set EVORA apart from its competitors and supported in its appointment as global and international strategic ESG advisors to the likes of Hines, UBS and Invesco.
June 2020
EVORA initiated an offshoring entity in Romania to build up a data management and analysis capability. Strong foundations have been built both in staff and software data tools and is being grown to provide support for data acquisition and bespoke reporting across all client portfolios.
June 2020
Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO at the Better Building Partnership joined EVORA as a Non-Executive Director
August 2020
SIERA released its unique forward projecting Net Zero Carbon Pathway tool, enabling carbon reductions to be tracked against a pathway to 2050 and reductions compared against recognised market benchmarks.
December 2020
EVORA Germany GmbH was formed with offices in Frankfurt and Hamburg, with the appointment of Meike Borchers as MD, having previously led the German ESG team for WSP. Since then, the team has grown to 14 employees and achieved close to €1m of revenue in its first 12 months.
March 2021
EVORA opened its Milan office in Italy with an initial two staff.
June 2021
The Green Debt service line was initiated, due to market demand and is led by Paul Sutcliffe.
August 2021
Appointed by M&G for both consulting and SIERA software support across its global £35bn managed real estate portfolio, being advised EVORA and SIERA were seen as the only providers to be able to future proof M&G in the current fast-evolving ESG market.
2021
EVORA was appointed by several leading global US finance and investment organisations giving the Company an exceptional opportunity to enter the US market and highlighting EVORA’s global market recognition as a leader in the provision of ESG strategic services to the real estate investment market.
March 2022
EVORA collaborates with Paia Consulting, a specialist Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) consultancy in Singapore offering a wide range of sustainability services targeting the real estate and property investment market in Asia Pacific. Further strengthening EVORA’s global growth plans whilst increasing the evolution and adoption of ESG principles in real estate investment in the Asia Pacific region.
June 2022
EVORA Global launches its newest service line: Social Wellbeing. We are now able to offer Social Wellbeing services to our clients as we continue to move towards delivering truly comprehensive E, S and G support to the industry.
September 2022
Investor demand drives US launch with the opening of our New York office.
“Sustainability and climate risk are on everyone’s agenda right now and investment managers need ESG information about their assets. Our clients want us there to keep their investment flowing and to ensure they have information on climate risk. Our potential for both growth and impact here is huge.” – Chris Bennett, EVORA Managing Director and co-Founder.
Our Vision
To accelerate the evolution and adoption of real asset sustainability to enhance the wellbeing of the planet and its people.
Our Mission
To make buildings productive, profitable, and resilient to change.
Our Values
We treat others as we wish to be treated. With a culture of mutual respect for all, our employees come together as one team, meaning innovation and positive change can happen.
Everyone at EVORA has a voice. We promote participation throughout all levels of the business; something that is easily achievable thanks to our culture of openness, honesty, and transparency.
We don’t just work for our clients, we work with them. Our collaborative approach is one reason why we’re the trusted sustainability advisor to many of Europe’s largest investment funds.
We foster creative thought within our team to provide innovative solutions to our clients. Combined with our values of Collaboration, Respect and Inclusion, creativity flourishes.
From our shortest blog post to our biggest client project, we endeavour to make sure that everything we do goes above and beyond expectations. We aim to be remarkable. We strive for excellence.
Latest insights
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