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ENVIRONMENTAL
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY
SOCIAL
POLICIES AND TRANSPARENT REPORTING
APPENDICES
For the past 15 years, ESRT has focused on healthy buildings and pioneered and showcased many sustainability practices through our renovations at the Empire State Building — practices we subsequently rolled out throughout our entire portfolio. ESRT believes in the power of building performance to improve employee productivity and well-being. We are partners with the WELL Living Lab and Mayo Clinic to advance the study of the indoor environment’s impact on human health and to help develop practices that can be implemented across the country. The WELL Living Lab Alliance is a global consortium of organizations that support the advancement of knowledge of healthy buildings to improve human health and well-being. Through our partnership we help the industry provide guidance that our tenants can depend on to promote functional, energy-efficient, and human health- enhancing spaces. We continue to monitor and track performance as science, data, and knowledge evolve. IEQ DURING CONSTRUCTION Design, construction, and renovation represent significant opportunities to drive energy efficiency, sustainability, and healthy environments. ESRT has implemented rigorous standards for sustainability and IEQ during construction of base building and tenant projects, as outlined in our High Performance Design and Construction Guidelines and Sustainability Guidelines. These include all of our IEQ policies, plans, and standards in alignment with the most advanced national and international standards, including LEED v4.1, WELL v2, and WELL Health-Safety.
Early Adopter of WELL at Scale ESRT enrolled in WELL at scale in November 2022 to demonstrate our dedication to healthy buildings across our entire portfolio. ESRT is the first commercial and multifamily portfolio to achieve the WELL Equity Rating through WELL at scale. It is also one of the first REIT’s to recertify WELL Health-Safety three times. Under WELL at Scale, ESRT will benchmark performance, achieve WELL Certification, track continuous improvement of science-based well-being metrics, and maintain a WELL Score.
EMPIRE STATE REALTY TRUST: 2023 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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