Data Collection & Input
Asset & portfolio data
Adding assets & asset groups
Learn how to add assets to Scaler, including required fields, asset structure, and optional grouping for reporting and analytics workflows.
Active vs. inactive assets
Explains how active and inactive asset statuses work in Scaler, how they affect analytics, reporting, and billing, and when each should be used.
Joint venture assets: setup and data collection guide
How to configure joint venture assets in Scaler, covering partial floor area and shared financial stake scenarios, with GRESB reporting guidance.
Building units: Setting up & entering data
Guide to creating and managing building units in the Data Collection Portal, including required fields, floor areas, certifications, and meter linking.
Using custom fields in Scaler
This article explains how custom fields work in Scaler, including where they are created, how they are enabled, and when they should (and should not) be used.
Custom calculations: formulas, reference tables, and emission factors
Replace external Excel logic with Scaler-native calculations. Covers custom consumption formulas, reference tables, and editable emission factors, with worked examples for postal-code-driven estimation.
Property-type mapping (GRESB, CRREM, ULI, ESPM)
Reference tables showing how Scaler's property types map to CRREM, ULI, and ESPM taxonomies and how pathway coverage is determined.
Recording certifications on assets
Add, edit, and manage certifications on your assets — including energy ratings, operational, design/construction categories, and GRESB renewable energy contracts.
Add your first asset
Add a single asset and the core fields Scaler needs: name, country, property type, and floor area. For asset groups and bulk upload, see the full guide.
Meters & consumption
Meters & consumption in Scaler: Overview
A conceptual overview of how meters and consumption data work in Scaler, including meter types, related data, and how to prepare for detailed meter setup.
Setting up physical meters
Learn how to set up physical meters in Scaler, including meter details, monitoring methods, and consumption data entry via platform, spreadsheet, or data requests.
Setting up calculated meters
Explains how to configure calculated meters within Scaler to generate derived consumption values, ratios, or intensities from existing meter data.
Meter setup scenarios & examples
A visual reference guide for setting up meters in Scaler, showing which dropdown options to select for common and non-standard real-world metering scenarios.
Using Meters & Consumption
Learn how to use Meters & Consumption to monitor data coverage, identify high-impact gaps, and quickly manage meters and consumption across your portfolio.
Energy, water & waste subcategory & source definitions
Definitions for Scaler’s standard energy, water, and waste resource types, including how they are categorised and mapped to GRESB.
Inputting cost data and energy spend intensity
How to enter energy cost data in Scaler and how it drives energy spend and energy spend intensity analytics.
Reporting district heating & cooling (DHC) and heat pump systems
How to configure meters in Scaler for heat pump and DHC systems, covering data scenarios including unknown output and net energy reporting.
Fluorinated gases (f-gas)
A guide to entering F-gas data in Scaler, understanding how emissions are calculated, and accessing F-gas reporting across frameworks.
Site vs. source energy: What to use for reporting in Scaler
Defines the difference between site and source energy in Scaler and how each metric impacts energy analysis and reporting
Additional data types
Risk & Technical Building Assessments
Explains how risk assessments and technical building assessments are captured in Scaler, how they map to GRESB indicators RA1 and RA2, and how to review portfolio coverage in the Scores dashboard.
Efficiency Measures
Explains how energy, water, and waste efficiency measures are captured in Scaler, how they map to GRESB indicators RA3–RA5, and how to review and use this data through the Scores dashboard.
Qualitative indicators in the Governance Tool
An overview of the Governance Tool in Scaler, including how indicators are completed, tracked, and audited.
Creating custom fields at company level
How admins create and configure custom fields at the company level: field name, description, type, and sections. Custom fields are part of the Scale plan.
Entering technical audit data
Record building-systems technical audit data in the Technical Audit tab, stored per asset over time and included in your data export.
Bulk upload (spreadsheet)
How to use the Scaler Spreadsheet (bulk upload)
Essential rules for downloading, editing, and uploading the Scaler Spreadsheet without errors or data loss.
Scaler Spreadsheet Tutorials
Guidance sheet by sheet — with key rules and field references for each sheet.
GRESB converter: Methodology & assumptions
A detailed overview of Scaler’s internal GRESB converter, including the assumptions, inference rules, and data-structure logic used to migrate GRESB Asset-Level Spreadsheet data into the Scaler bulk upload format.
Data requests
Data requests: Overview
An introduction to the Data Request tool in Scaler: what it does, how the end-to-end workflow operates, and where to find it.
Data requests: Creating and managing requests (for requesters)
Step-by-step guidance for creating, sending, tracking, and approving Data Requests in Scaler.
Data requests: Completing a request (for recipients)
Step-by-step guidance for accessing, completing, and submitting a Data Request in Scaler. No Scaler account is required.
Data completion & alerts
Understanding data completion and alerts
Explains what Scaler Data Completion is, how alert types affect it, and what each alert type means.
How to use the Portfolio Alerts dashboard
Resolve data quality issues across your portfolio from a single centralized view, without navigating into individual assets.
Dismissing warnings across assets and portfolios
Suppress warnings that don't apply to an asset or portfolio with a recorded reason. Dismissals are tracked, reversible, and stop counting toward data completion.
Troubleshooting data completion
How to find and fix blocking issues that are preventing your assets from reaching 100% Scaler Data Completion.
Scaler validation rules overview
Complete field-by-field reference of Scaler's validation rules across all data models, including severity levels, rule types, and framework-specific requirements.
Data coverage & reliability
Scaler data coverage methodology
Understand how Scaler calculates meter-level data coverage for quality assurance, gap detection, and data collection prioritisation.
GRESB data coverage methodology
Understand how GRESB data coverage is calculated in Scaler for reporting and analytics aligned with the GRESB Real Estate methodology.
How to achieve 100% data coverage
Learn how to achieve complete data coverage by understanding what needs to be true for both GRESB-aligned and Scaler data coverage metrics.
Using the Consumption Coverage tool
Track monthly data completeness across your portfolio's energy, water, and waste meters to identify gaps and prioritize data collection efforts.
Configuring maximum floor area coverage settings
Learn how to set portfolio and asset-level maximum coverage defaults — eliminating the need for placeholder meters in GRESB and other reporting outputs.
Data reliability methodology
Learn how Scaler evaluates data reliability and data quality, how your data reliability score is calculated, and how monitoring methods affect scoring and ESG reporting frameworks including INREV SDDS.
Estimated consumption data in Scaler
Overview of Scaler's two estimation models — meter-level linear extrapolation and the GRESB estimation model — and how estimated data appears in analytics and reports.
Meter-level linear extrapolation methodology
Understand the methodology Scaler uses to estimate missing meter data with linear extrapolation — the model steps, confidence scoring, and where estimates appear.