BPS — Biodiversity Performance Score
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Existing estates

Score an already-built asset, on what actually concerns it

For international groups, REITs, retail networks and operators of existing estates — where the majority of the surface is already built and largely rented.

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The founding rule

The rule that makes the BPS applicable to existing assets

A criterion that does not apply to the asset is marked « not applicable » (sans objet) and excluded from the achievable maximum — never counted as a failure. An existing asset therefore carries no artificial penalty for what it structurally cannot do.

The result: an existing estate is scored on what actually concerns it — its baseline state and the themes that genuinely apply: Governance, Living soils, Plant heritage, Fauna & functionalities, Ecological management, plus the Nuisances penalty. The score reflects the asset as it is, not an ideal it was never designed to be.

Immediate levers

Two immediate levers of action

On an operated asset, two themes move the score quickly — without a construction programme.

Nuisances (penalty 0 → −3)

Pollution, lighting — sign and car-park lighting — and fragmentation weigh directly on the score as a penalty. An operational decision produces a measurable delta the following year, without heavy works.

Living soils & soil sealing

On a retail or logistics estate, the car park is the main reservoir of surface. De-sealing and soil-life actions score directly on the Living soils theme.

Self-service pre-check

A free, self-service pre-check

Before any commitment, an operator can run a site-by-site pre-diagnostic on its own.

HabitatCheck (free Lite) lets an operator run a pre-diagnostic asset by asset — an initial read of where each site stands before scoping a full evaluation.

Open HabitatCheck

A global estate

A standard that holds across a global estate

The same rule that scores one operated asset also scores an entire international portfolio.

  • One common rule applied to every asset — the same method, weightings and A+ to G scale.
  • A score per asset, obtained on what actually concerns that asset.
  • Aggregation across the estate, from a single site to an entire portfolio.
  • Comparability continent to continent — an A means an A, everywhere.
The BPS across a global estate

Score an operated asset on what actually concerns it, act on immediate levers, and read the whole estate under one rule.

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