Sustainable commercial buildings and smart data technology
Commercial buildings offer great potential to reduce their environmental footprint and improve economic efficiency. MeteoViva Climate smart data technology helps unlock these benefits. Smart financing makes access to this solution easier, as demonstrated by one of Germany’s tallest office buildings.
The carbon footprint of buildings can be significantly reduced compared to the average building stock through digitalization and networking measures—Siemens estimates this potential at up to 80 percent. The reason for this is unnecessary energy consumption caused by technical systems that run when they are not needed. This can include heating, cooling, or ventilation systems, and ultimately leads to higher operating costs for the building and a poor carbon footprint.
“Invest in climate protection without actually investing!”
MeteoViva Climate, the smart data technology developed by the technology company MeteoViva, offers a solution. It integrates weather forecasts and real-time building operation data—such as energy and electricity prices, building physics, and building services – into a dynamic digital building model, analyzes this data, and proactively optimizes the control of building services systems.
For this “predictive, self-learning, and easy-to-integrate smart data solution” to be fully effective, many buildings require additional measurement technology as well as sensors and actuators for building services. However, the inevitable hardware investments associated with this would pose a financial barrier to implementing the solution, which would fundamentally contradict MeteoViva’s approach: After all, the company offers the software components of its solution under the motto “Invest in climate protection without investing!” as an option for a monthly fee.
Sustainable Buildings as a Service – saving energy and costs sustainably with smart financing
To achieve this goal, Siemens Financial Services steps in with its tailored “sale-and-lease-back” offering: This allows companies to finance the necessary additional technology at a fixed interest rate—affordably and, above all, without straining their cash flow. This creates a perfect complement to the “Sustainable Buildings as a Service” offering: Customers of MeteoViva and Siemens Financial Services can utilize the solution’s functionality instead of owning software and systems. They simply pay a fixed monthly fee and receive maximum system availability and comprehensive service in return, without straining their budget.
Project in a Frankfurt skyscraper
This offering has already proven itself on the market on numerous occasions. One of the most recent examples is an office building that ranks among Germany’s tallest skyscrapers and stands as an icon thanks to its striking architecture and unique floor plan. Built in the first half of the 1990s, it continues to impress with its sustainability to this day, as impressively underscored by its LEED Gold certification for existing buildings. LEED is the internationally recognized benchmark for top-tier “green” real estate. The use of MeteoViva Climate as “Sustainable Buildings as a Service” perfectly rounds out the office tower’s positioning as a sustainable property—and, thanks to the appropriate financing solution, truly “without investing.”