Big plans for tackling non-residential retrofit, with Nick Taylor and Olga Khroustaleva (Building Atlas)

We're joined by our new friends from Building Atlas, Nick Taylor and Olga Khroustaleva, who join us for a conversation about commercial retrofit—the non-residential kind. 

They’ve got a data driven business Building Atlas that helps commercial asset owners to plan pragmatic retrofit pathways for commercial real estate.

This isn’t just important because of how much energy the non-residential sector consumes, it’s also because 70% of non-residential building assets are on course to become stranded assets because of their EPC rating and MEES regulation.

They are simplifying a complex problem into something that’s comprehensible—aggregating experience (and data) to give broad brush stroke direction that's useful. 

They’ve also published a paper about retrofit strategy for commercial buildings: The Beauty in Boring Buildings: The Business Case for Retrofit Beyond Flagship Assets.

Notes from the show

• Nick Taylor on LinkedIn 
• Olga Khroustaleva on LinkedIn 
• The Building Atlas website 
• Their recent paper — The Beauty in Boring Buildings: The Business Case for Retrofit Beyond Flagship Assets
• UK Government MEES guidance — Non-domestic private rented property: minimum energy efficiency standard - landlord guidance

  
  

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