Existing buildings
BuildSense
The system of record for an existing building.
What it is
BuildSense ingests IFC models, utility bills, project documents, engineering reports and site visit data, and holds them as one authoritative record of what a building actually is. Every analysis, retrofit plan and capital decision that follows is drawn from that record.
Who it is for
Property owners, portfolio managers, asset and facility teams, engineers, energy advisors, retrofit teams
Capabilities
What BuildSense does.
One record, five kinds of evidence
IFC models, utility bills, project documents, engineering reports and site visit data all land in the same place. What has always lived in separate drives, binders and inboxes becomes one description of the building.
Every value knows where it came from
Each attribute in the record carries its source: the model, a document, a report, an observation on site, a default, or a person. When two sources disagree, you can see which is which and decide, rather than inherit a number nobody can explain.
Site visits become data, not memory
What the engineer saw in the mechanical room is captured as structured evidence against the asset it concerns, so it survives staff turnover and informs the next decision instead of sitting in a PDF.
Analysis drawn from the record
Because the inputs are already established, BuildSense can run energy analysis directly against them — classified Part 9 or Part 3 under the National Building Code, at hourly or monthly fidelity depending on the question.
Cost and carbon together
Results come back as both — simple payback, net present value, internal rate of return, benefit-cost ratio and dollars per tonne of CO₂e avoided — so a retrofit can be argued in the terms the decision is actually made in.
Signed, and kept current
Owner, energy advisor and administrator are separate roles; work is not finished until an advisor signs it. Connect meters and sensors and the record keeps pace with the building rather than freezing at the date of the audit.
How it works
From scattered evidence to one record.
Ingest
IFC models, utility bills, project documents, engineering reports and site visit data.
Reconcile
Sources are matched to assets, conflicts surfaced, and every value keeps its provenance.
Establish
The building has one record — classified Part 9 or Part 3, with the reasoning shown.
Analyse
Energy, cost and carbon run against the record rather than a fresh set of assumptions.
Maintain
Advisor sign-off, then meters and new site visits keep the record current.
Services
Engagements around BuildSense.
Building record onboarding
Turning an existing document estate into a structured record of the asset.
Rapid building audits
A defensible baseline in days, not a season of site visits.
Continuous monitoring
Meter feeds and low-cost sensors that keep the record honest.
Retrofit assessment and planning
What to do, in what order, and what it returns.
Decarbonization plans
Measures sequenced against capital plans and emissions targets.
Incentive matching
Finding the rebates, grants and carbon finance a project qualifies for.
The other two
Three products that fit together.
See BuildSense on your own project.
Bring a building, a plant or a portfolio, and we will show you what the system does with it. Engagements are scoped and quoted before any work begins.
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