Standards Organizations

Our mission is to advance professionalism and ethics, global standards, methodologies, and practices through the professional development of property economics worldwide.

BOMA International has set the standard for measuring buildings.

There are very substantial benefits potentially available from the development and adoption of interoperable standards for BIM. These benefits are only fully available if these standards are open and international. These benefits go far beyond the design and construction phases; a built environment sector fully enabled as a digital economy is envisaged.

The Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) is a set of standardized, industry-wide ethical principles that guide investment firms on how to calculate and present their investment results to prospective clients.

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is the independent, private-sector, not-for-profit organization that establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

GRESB offers a consistent framework to collect and compare key ESG indicators and related performance metrics across global real estate and infrastructure portfolios. Our benchmark aligns with international reporting frameworks and supports all existing building and project certification standards.

From roundtables with leading GPs to dialogue with decision-makers in national centers of governance, ILPA articulates and amplifies the voice of its members in global discussions on transparency, governance and alignment of interests between general and limited partners. ILPA advocates for LPs, to ensure that their perspective and that of their beneficiaries are considered in policy making circles as well as in industry practices.