Passive Logic: Powering the Transition to Smart & Sustainable Buildings
Brookfield Growth’s Latest Building Automation Investment
Building Operations and Environmental Pollution
Per Architecture 2030 research, buildings generate ~40% of annual global CO2 emissions, with a large majority of these attributable to building operations (28%). This issue is expected to compound in the coming years as demographics drive further real estate development. As we look forward to 2060, the global amount of building floor area is expected to double, equivalent to adding an entire New York City to the world, every month, for 40 years. Facing this growing footprint, finding solutions to optimize the way buildings operate is crucial to global decarbonization efforts.
Brookfield Growth’s View
As one of the leading global owners of commercial real estate, Brookfield recognizes the complexity of building technologies. Building systems represent a massive end market, consisting of highly complex technologies which are typically siloed and built on legacy hardware and software. This market has historically been dominated by a small group of large industrial companies and their pricing has only been accessible to the largest buildings, leaving a large portion of the commercial RE market without a building management system (“BMS”). This underserved cohort needs a BMS to drive efficiencies in their building operations, including energy efficiency. Furthermore, existing building automation solutions are often limited to single use-cases as significant technical sophistication is required to connect siloed RE systems together into a full-featured platform, a sophistication BMS’ have historically lacked. PassiveLogic solves this problem by offering a modern autonomy layer that can be easily integrated into buildings of all sizes, driving improved energy efficiency, tenant satisfaction, and cost savings.
More about PassiveLogic
PassiveLogic is changing the future of the built environment by powering autonomous building systems using its next-gen BMS, ultimately providing the foundation for smart cities. They have reimagined how we design, build, operate, maintain, and manage our buildings using revolutionary “deep physics” Digital Twins, and AI-enabled future-forward controls. They have also made BMS technology accessible to all kinds of buildings for the first time: big and small, new construction and retrofit.
A key differentiator of PassiveLogic systems is that they were designed for anyone to use and do not require advanced training! To get you familiar with the platform, let’s take you through how easily you’d roll it out if you were a CRE owner. The foundation of the platform is developing a digital twin of your building, which can be easily created by walking around your property with an iPad. After mapping each room, you will be able to add additional building details such as sensors on a SquareSpace-like system, fleshing out your full-featured twin. From there, the company’s hardware comes in: Cell Modules are inserted into a modern wire box — the Hive Controller. Unlike wire boxes of the past, the Hive has a tablet-style interface and guides the installer through the wiring process, eliminating costly errors. Where you don’t have sensors, you can use Swarm Sensors that charge with ambient light to gather occupant and other data to drive decisions. Once deployed, PassiveLogic can control your lighting, AC and other systems and optimize for tenant comfort, energy efficiency, and ultimately NOI. With these pieces in place, you are now able to effortlessly run your building and improve sustainability.
