Retrofit
IoT Deployments: Essential Strategies for Balancing CapEx vs OpEx Costs in 2025
March 19th, 2025Mapping the Strategic Direction of CBRE in Smart Buildings 2024
November 25th, 2024
Kontrol Technologies Smart Buildings Business & Financials Examined
In this Research Note, we examine Kontrol Technologies Corp, a Canadian public company offering IoT, Cloud, and SaaS technology for smart buildings and cities in the North American market. Based on their 2023 Annual Information Form and Consolidated Financial Statements, filed on 1 April 2024, this analysis covers their subsidiaries and operating businesses, corporate restructuring […]
Keeping Cool in an Increasingly Hot Data Center HVAC Market
Developing technology trends like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and digital transformation are driving the global demand for data processing and storage to unprecedented levels. As a result, energy-intensive data centers are fast becoming a major energy consumer, due in large part, to cooling systems that account for up to 40% of their total consumption, […]
EMCOR Building Services Business & Financials Examined 2024
In this Research Note, we examine EMCOR, one of the largest mechanical and electrical contractors in the US, and its building services business, which accounts for 28% of the group’s 2023 revenues of $12.6 billion. Based on their 2023 annual results and corporate overview presentation, this analysis covers the Building Services financial highlights for its […]
Belimo Capital Markets Day 2024: Targeting Growth Hotspots
Belimo, a listed company on the Swiss Stock Exchange, hosted its Capital Markets Day 2024 on 4th September 2024. This Research Note focuses on the building automation device manufacturer’s perspective on its growth targets. This is an update to our previous coverage of Belimo’s growth strategy and our latest Examined article. At Capital Market Day […]
Net Zero Buildings Explored: The Exploratorium, San Francisco
Originally founded by famed particle physicist Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, San Francisco’s Exploratorium moved to Pier 15, its current location, in 2013 and set a target of becoming the world’s biggest net zero carbon museum. 10-years later the 220,000-square foot attraction achieved its goal, which it hopes will inspire others around the world. The Exploratorium […]
Estonian Building Automation Startup Bisly Examined
In this Research Note, we examine the Estonian building automation firm Bisly, Founded in 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia, Bisly is built around the idea of making professional intelligent building technology available to all market segments. They offer a mix of their own hardware as well as market-specific third-party hardware that is delivered through a single […]
MapMortar Examined: The Google Maps for Zero Carbon Building Retrofits
This Research Note examines an early-stage UK startup, MapMortar which has developed a retrofit twin platform designed to help large commercial real estate portfolio owners and asset managers model and simulate portfolio decarbonization to plan, manage, and execute retrofitting at scale. Founded in 2022 as Mortar.io, the startup changed its name to MapMortar, headquartered in […]
Mapping the Strategic Direction of Nordomatic in Smart Buildings
In this Research Note, we explore the strategic direction of Nordomatic, the leading independent BMS systems integrator in Scandinavia. This Research Note examines the company’s strategic priorities in the smart commercial buildings space. through mapping M&A and investment activity to ascertain the growth ambitions of the business from 2019 to date. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in […]
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