OUR COMPASSES
They aren't alternatives: they build on one another. An asset aiming for SmartScore without first laying its digital backbone is building on nothing.
WHAT THEY GUARANTEE
Robust, sovereign and secure technological foundations.
Direct alignment with ESG requirements and tenant expectations.
A single objective: asset performance and attractiveness.
RECOGNITION
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark is the ESG assessment standard most widely used by institutional real estate investors.
HOW THEY FIT TOGETHER
BUILD — Digital governance
prepares the asset to meet all three standards, in the right order
R2S
FOUNDATION
The foundation without which the other two cannot stand
The R2S label — Ready2Services — certifies that a commercial building has an open, interoperable and secure digital foundation, ready to host digital services over the long term.
WiredScore
FAÇADE
What comes in and out of the asset
WiredScore certification distinguishes buildings offering high-performing, resilient digital connectivity suited to the expectations of businesses and their critical operations.
SmartScore
USE
What occupiers experience day to day
SmartScore certification assesses the smart maturity of a real estate asset and recognises the technologies that improve occupier experience, operational efficiency and measurable building performance.
WHO IT MATTERS TO
Checks in thirty seconds that the asset meets their technical requirements. WiredScore Platinum is an immediate quality signal.
Provides auditable cybersecurity and ESG traceability. Reduces perceived risk and may improve financing terms and insurance premiums.
A documented asset, defensible at resale, whose digital performance can be demonstrated by recognised certification.
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS
+4.1%
average rental premium for WiredScore-certified buildings
Cushman & Wakefield, The Smart Premium, 2025
+7.3%
where WiredScore and SmartScore are combined
Cushman & Wakefield, The Smart Premium, 2025
Study based on ten years of leasing data in the central London office market. These figures do not transfer mechanically to the Belgian and Luxembourg markets.
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
The return on a WiredScore or SmartScore certification does not come down to an automatic rental premium. In Belgium and Luxembourg, it lies first in the ability to evidence, improve and demonstrate an asset's digital performance: connectivity, resilience, smart services, quality of operation and readiness for future use.
A Cushman & Wakefield study published in 2025, The Smart Premium, based on ten years of leasing data in the central London office market, observes an average rental premium of 4.1% for WiredScore-certified buildings, rising to 7.3% where WiredScore and SmartScore are combined. These figures indicate the value a mature market recognises, but they do not transfer mechanically to the Belgian or Luxembourg markets.
Occupiers, particularly international ones and heavy digital users, can verify the quality of the asset's connectivity and services before committing.
The certification provides independent evidence that investors, brokers, asset managers and tenants can readily understand, in a market where many buildings claim to be smart without any independently verified level of performance.
Carrier diversity, resilience of access, mobile coverage, cybersecurity, data governance, systems integration and documentation are dealt with before they become an obstacle to letting, sale or refinancing.
The process helps prioritise the improvements that genuinely create value, rather than accumulating technology that is poorly integrated or hard to operate.
WiredScore assesses the connectivity foundation and its resilience; SmartScore assesses the ability to deliver intelligent, interoperable and secure services. Together they prepare the asset for the demands of cloud, mobility, data, cybersecurity and AI.
Certification is particularly relevant for new offices, major refurbishments, prime assets, institutional portfolios and assets targeting international occupiers. On its own it guarantees neither a higher rent nor faster letting.
The real return lies less in displaying a label than in having an asset that is better designed, better documented, more resilient and easier to defend before a demanding tenant or investor.
WHAT BUILD BRINGS
R2S lays the foundation. WiredScore assesses what comes in and out. SmartScore recognises what all of it makes possible.
An asset ready for these standards is an asset better governed, better documented, and easier to defend before an occupier, a bank or an investor.
This is asset-level traceability, independently verifiable by a third party.
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