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:

• Christopher Naismith on LinkedIn
• Audette

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