Finding Hidden Value in Green Buildings with Christopher Naismith, Audette
Update: 2025-01-16
Description
In today’s episode, we’re diving into the world of commercial building retrofits.
We're joined byChristopher Naismith, founder and CEO ofAudette, a decarbonization platform for commercial real estate asset managers.
Audette enables retrofits at scale by bringing data and software to what has traditionally been a manual, building-by-building process, turning it into a data-driven strategy and with the capital plans to make them a reality.
We cover:
- Christopher’s path from civil engineer to startup founder
- Audette’s data-driven approach to building audits
- The spread of building performance standards across cities
- Brown to green capital strategies
- Energy efficiency vs true building decarbonization
- How carbon taxes and fines are creating new financial incentives for building improvements
- Why workflows and business models matter as much as technology
- Audette’s ambitions as a marketplace for building retrofit solutions
Episode notes:
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