Real estate companies are increasingly accepting the imperative to decarbonize  buildings, but they frequently find the task difficult, laborious, and expensive.

Owners with portfolios of many unique buildings often have no centralized inventory  that indicates the conditions inside or the types of equipment they contain. What’s  more, physical energy audits and building-by-building net-zero plans are lengthy, costly,  and enjoy no benefits of scale. Due to these limitations, the traditional approach to  decarbonization has created a widespread impression that decarbonizing buildings is  significantly unprofitable.

But thanks to improvements in the quantity and quality of data and analytic methods,  there is a better approach. It is now possible to use a combination of data from satellites,  geospatial analytics, regulations, labor and equipment costs, building characteristics,  energy, and other sources to rapidly create a high-fidelity picture of the current state of  an individual building without ever stepping foot inside.