Unlocking whole-building retrofit through virtual modelling and real-world simulation

MortIO是一家早期软件企业，成立于2022年，其使命是使建筑能效改造能够以最快的速度和最大的规模进行。我们的使命是解决基于Place的英国最大的净零挑战之一，英国的建筑存量是欧洲最古老和最泄漏的。根据英国绿色建筑委员会的数据，在2050年之前，将有2900万栋建筑需要翻新，才能实现英国的净零目标，而皇家特许测量师学会警告称，翻新的步伐仍然太慢。我们的项目解决了这一任务。我们将与伦敦巴内特区合作开发我们的数据驱动的数字软件应用程序。我们的应用程序是一个基于Web的虚拟建模和仿真软件平台，它创建现有建筑的3D虚拟模型。有了这些模型，用户可以模拟数百种不同顺序的改造措施，根据自己的预算和时间限制，找出对单个建筑或一组建筑进行改造的最佳路线。由于模拟的改造措施涵盖了提高电力和热效率的所有改进措施，因此我们的项目寻求解决这两个重要的净零挑战。我们的应用程序的好处是它提高了改造规划的准确性，从而降低了改造干预措施没有产生预期的能效节约的风险。此外，我们的应用程序与建筑类型无关，可用于住宅和商业物业。最终，这将使任何用户对他们使用应用程序开发的计划更有信心，因此他们可以更快地实施。

Mortar IO is an early-stage software business, founded in 2022, with the mission to enable building energy efficiency retrofits to happen at the greatest speed and scale. Our mission seeks to tackle one of the UK's greatest net zero challenges based on place, with the UK's building stock being the oldest and leakiest in Europe. 29 million buildings will need to be retrofitted before 2050 to achieve the UK's net zero ambitions, according to the UK Green Building Council, while the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors have warned that the pace of retrofitting remains far too slow. Our project tackles this mission. We will develop our data driven digital software application in collaboration with the London Borough of Barnet. Our application is a virtual modelling and simulation web-based software platform, which creates 3D virtual models of existing buildings. With these models, users can simulate hundreds of retrofitting measures in different sequences to figure out the optimal route to retrofitting a single building, or a portfolio of buildings, according to their own budget and time constraints. Because the retrofitting measures simulated cover all improvements that increase the efficiency of both power and heat, our project seeks to tackle these two important net zero challenges. The benefit of our application is that it increases the accuracy of retrofit planning, thereby decreasing the risk of retrofit interventions not producing the intended energy efficiency savings. Moreover, our application is agnostic to building type and can be used for both residential and commercial properties. Ultimately, this gives any user more confidence in the plans they develop using the application, so they can move more quickly towards implementation.