The risk is not evenly spread.
Two buildings with the same rating can have very different retrofit burdens. Building Atlas helps separate assets that need action from assets that simply need watching.
For Asset Managers & Investors
Know which buildings deserve the capex.
Building Atlas helps asset managers turn a portfolio of buildings into a costed retrofit plan: which assets are exposed, what each one is likely to need, what the work could cost, and which interventions are worth taking to investment committee.
- Rank assets by retrofit and compliance exposure
- Estimate capex by building and measure
- Compare MEES, net zero, and budget-led pathways
- Produce a Portfolio Plan you can use with IC, lenders, and advisers
Retrofit decisions are becoming asset-management decisions.
For most portfolios, the hard question is no longer whether buildings should improve. The hard question is where the money goes first.
Some assets need urgent work to stay compliant. Some need modest interventions to protect optionality. Some look risky on paper but are poor candidates for immediate spend. Others quietly carry a future capex bill that will show up at the worst possible moment: during refinancing, disposal, leasing, or diligence.
That is the asset manager's problem. Not carbon in the abstract. Capital, timing, risk, and defensibility.
Building Atlas helps turn scattered building information into a practical view of what needs attention, what can wait, and what belongs in the capex plan.
Capex has to compete.
Retrofit spend sits beside leasing, maintenance, refurbishment, debt, and disposal priorities. The plan has to show why this money, on this building, now.
The inputs are usually messy.
EPCs, floor areas, uses, heating systems, surveys, leases, and assumptions rarely line up neatly. Building Atlas structures the portfolio so buildings can be compared consistently.
IC does not approve ambiguity.
A good sustainability story is not enough. Committees need costs, assumptions, trade-offs, sequencing, and a clear reason for the recommendation.
The questions behind the capex plan
Building Atlas is built around the questions asset managers need answered before money is committed.
Which assets are exposed?
Identify buildings with compliance risk, weak rating trajectories, high energy intensity, higher emissions, or material retrofit burden.
What is each building likely to need?
See relevant retrofit measures by asset, including where interventions are feasible, limited, or unlikely to move the dial enough.
What could the work cost?
Estimate capex ranges by building and measure, with assumptions visible enough to challenge rather than buried in a black box.
What changes if we fund it?
Compare the expected effect on ratings, energy use, emissions, annual cost, payback, and long-term asset position.
What should happen first?
Prioritise work by exposure, budget, target outcome, and commercial relevance — not by whoever shouted loudest in the spreadsheet.
What can we defend?
Turn the analysis into a clear Portfolio Plan for IC, lenders, advisers, and internal asset teams.
From asset list to retrofit priorities
Building Atlas takes the portfolio from “we should probably look at this” to “these are the buildings, measures, costs, and trade-offs we need to discuss.”
A portfolio baseline
Build a structured view of the portfolio: address, use, floor area, rating, energy performance, emissions, annual cost, heating fuel, constraints, and data confidence.
A ranked view of exposure
See which buildings are most exposed by MEES risk, rating trajectory, energy intensity, emissions, likely retrofit burden, and physical or regulatory constraints.
Costed retrofit measures
Review building-level interventions with capex ranges, payback, savings, carbon impact, and expected rating movement.
Scenario comparison
Compare different routes through the portfolio: minimum compliance, net zero, budget-led sequencing, worst-first, or custom pathways.
Capex sequencing
Show which measures should happen on which buildings, in what order, and under what budget logic.
A Portfolio Plan
Export the analysis into a clear report with priorities, assumptions, recommendations, and the commercial case for action.
How the Portfolio Plan works
1
Send the portfolio
Start with addresses and whatever asset data you already have. Building Atlas structures the portfolio and fills the gaps needed to create a useful first baseline.
2
Baseline the buildings
Each asset is assessed for current performance, rating position, emissions, likely energy cost, constraints, and confidence in the available data.
3
Model the measures
Building Atlas identifies relevant retrofit measures and estimates their likely cost, savings, payback, carbon impact, and rating movement.
4
Compare the routes
Test what happens under different strategies: compliance-led, net zero-led, budget-led, or targeted around the assets carrying the most exposure.
5
Take the plan forward
Receive a Portfolio Plan showing what to prioritise, why it matters, what it may cost, and what assumptions sit behind the recommendation.
A report built for decisions, not decoration.
The Portfolio Plan is designed to be used. It gives asset managers a clear view of where retrofit spend is likely to matter, which buildings carry the most exposure, and how different pathways change the portfolio.
It is not another dashboard to admire. It is a practical report for deciding what deserves time, money, and further diligence.
- Risk-ranked asset list
- Building-level retrofit recommendations
- Capex ranges by asset and measure
- Payback, annual savings, energy impact, and carbon impact
- Current and projected rating movement
- MEES and compliance exposure
- Scenario comparison across different pathways
- Suggested sequencing under budget constraints
- Key assumptions and confidence levels
- Investment committee-ready summary
Where asset managers use it
The Portfolio Plan is useful wherever retrofit risk needs to move from background concern to commercial decision.
Annual capex planning
Decide which retrofit works deserve budget, which should be sequenced later, and which assets need further investigation before spend is committed.
Investment committee papers
Support recommendations with cost ranges, expected outcomes, assumptions, and a clear explanation of why specific buildings are being prioritised.
Hold, sell, or refinance decisions
Understand whether retrofit exposure affects the future position of an asset before key financing, disposal, or hold-period decisions.
Lease and asset strategy
See where energy performance, compliance exposure, or likely works could affect leasing plans, tenant conversations, or asset-management strategy.
Portfolio review
Move beyond asset-by-asset anecdotes and compare exposure consistently across the portfolio.
Adviser coordination
Give consultants, surveyors, lenders, and internal teams a common view of the buildings, assumptions, and priorities.
Start with the plan. Scale into the platform.
Most asset managers start with a Portfolio Plan because it answers the immediate portfolio question: where is the exposure, what could it cost, and what should we do first?
For teams managing the plan over time, the full Building Atlas platform provides ongoing access to dashboards, asset drilldowns, scenarios, reports, and portfolio monitoring.
Best first step
Portfolio Plan
A portfolio-level report showing risk, retrofit priorities, recommended actions, costs, scenarios, and next steps.
Get your Portfolio PlanFor ongoing management
Building Atlas Platform
Full access to the dashboards, asset views, scenario tools, recommendations, and reporting environment behind the plan.
Explore the platformFor single assets
Pulse
A focused single-building report for acquisitions, lending, valuation, or due diligence.
Explore PulseWhy not just use EPCs, spreadsheets, and adviser reports?
You probably already do. That is the point.
EPCs give part of the picture. Spreadsheets hold assumptions. Adviser reports explain individual assets. None of those, on their own, gives an asset manager a consistent way to compare buildings, rank exposure, test measures, and sequence spend across a portfolio.
Building Atlas brings the decision together: which assets matter, which interventions are worth considering, what each pathway changes, and where capex has the strongest case.
Find the buildings that need a decision.
Get a Portfolio Plan that turns your asset data into a costed, prioritised view of retrofit risk, capex, and next steps.
Built for asset managers and investors who need retrofit decisions to stand up commercially, not just environmentally.