Global Estate Measurement Standards

Helping organisations to measure and improve the performance of corporate buildings.

Global Estate Management Standards – or ‘GEMS’ - is a proprietary system introduced by IPD Occupiers to create a standard platform for use within the real estate management industry. By setting out a universal approach to the collection of real estate information, our free-to-download measurement Codes enable property executives to generate consistent and comparable performance information about their buildings anywhere in the world.

IPD Occupier GEMS are an industry standard for the measurement of property characteristics, functions, and cost. GEMS are endorsed by leading industry bodies such as RICS, BIFM, BCO, IFMA and CoreNet. Our range of GEMS currently consist of the renowned IPD Cost Code, the IPD Environment Code and the new IPD Space Code.

Track Environmental Performance

From CEO down to customers and local communities, all will want to know your organisation’s environmental credentials! The Code provides a ready-made template to report this information to key stakeholders.

Read more about how you can measure environmental impacts with the IPD Environment Code.

Optimise Your Space

Did you know that optimising space use is likely to be the fastest way to simultaneously cut costs and reduce environmental impacts without reducing the quality of your outputs?

Click here for information on our upcoming IPD Space Code.

Measuring & Controlling Cost

Keeping costs under control is the first priority of most real estate and facilities executives. Now in its 4th Edition, the IPD Cost Code provides the widely accepted international standard for capturing the totality of these costs.

Click here to read more about how you can obtain a copy of our Cost Code.