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Gerding Edlen

Commercial real estate - development, asset/property mgmt., investment mgmt.
Certified Since: June, 2015
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Sector: Service with Significant Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

95.7

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.gerdingedlen.com

Gerding Edlen is one of the nation's leading real estate investment and development firms focused on urban infill office, apartment and mixed-use properties and is grounded in the goals of creating transformational buildings, vibrant communities and investment quality assets.

In 1996, the company's founders, Mark Edlen and Bob Gerding, created Gerding Edlen with the vision to approach real estate with the singular focus of creating great places for people. This singular vision established a different kind of real estate company, one with a deep commitment to innovation and sustainability. Based in Portland, Oregon, Gerding Edlen has become a recognized national leader in sustainability, contributing significantly to the overall advancement of how environmentally responsible commercial properties are designed, engineered, constructed and operated. Gerding Edlen's properties have won multiple local and national awards and the firm has developed or re-developed over 65 LEEDTM certified (or soon to be certified) buildings.

Gerding Edlen’s Principles of Place form the basis of their approach to real estate development. Their work is grounded in the notion that they have an obligation to create lasting value in the communities in which they do business.

Best for the World Honoreeinfo_outline

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.