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

砂浆IO是一家早期软件公司，成立于2022年，其使命是使建筑节能改造以最快的速度和规模发生。我们的使命是解决英国最大的零排放挑战之一，因为英国的建筑存量是欧洲最古老、最漏水的。根据英国绿色建筑委员会的数据，在2050年之前，英国将需要改造2900万幢建筑，以实现英国的零排放目标，而皇家特许测量师学会警告说，改造的步伐仍然太慢。我们的项目解决了这一任务。我们将与伦敦巴尼特自治市合作开发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，可以创建现有建筑的3D虚拟模型。有了这些模型，用户可以按照不同的顺序模拟数百种改造措施，根据自己的预算和时间限制，找出改造单个建筑物或建筑物组合的最佳路线。由于模拟的改造措施涵盖了所有提高电力和热能效率的改进，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，它提高了改造计划的准确性，从而降低了改造干预不能产生预期的能源效率节约的风险。此外，我们的应用程序是不可知的建筑类型，可用于住宅和商业物业。最终，这让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转向实现。

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.