100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: Accelerating Portfolio Retrofits at Scale
From Climate Risk to Portfolio Resilience
Climate risk is no longer a distant threat—it is a present operational reality. Worsening climate impacts are bringing a surge in insurance costs, strict disclosure requirements, and the rapidly growing cost of deferring action. Making the right retrofits at the right time is a critical strategy for protecting and future-proofing your building portfolio. As an asset manager, municipality, or local government, you already know this. The real challenge is navigating the how.
That is where OPEN Technologies’ Virtual Decarbonization Planner (VDP) comes in. Our innovative product delivers the precise, actionable insights you need—at the price and speed that match your portfolio’s needs, enabling you to translate ambitious climate commitments into effective, on-the-ground action.
Revolutionizing Retrofit Planning
OPEN’s Virtual Decarbonization Planner (VDP) helps decision-makers in the built environment to make confident investments in the renewal and revitalization of their assets. We provide data-driven tools that turn raw building performance data into clear, actionable insights. By utilizing readily available building data, the VDP generates a tailored list of retrofit actions—complete with capital costs, energy savings, and emissions impacts.
Our surrogate-model-driven analysis provides unparalleled advantages over conventional methods:
- Faster and Cheaper: Delivers actionable roadmaps 100x faster and at 1/10th the cost of traditional engineer-led studies.
- Unlimited Scenario Planning: Generate and tweak unlimited scenarios by adjusting capital investments, expected emissions reductions, and financial projections to suit your individual goals.
- Scalable Impact: Designed to effortlessly handle portfolio-level assessments, from a handful of buildings to hundreds of properties.
VDP In the World: Powering the BC Retrofit Accelerator
The impact of our tools goes beyond software—it directly shapes the communities we live in. In early 2026, OPEN Technologies announced a partnership with the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC) to deliver Virtual Decarbonization Plans to 100 buildings across British Columbia.
This initiative is delivered through the Strata Energy Advisor program, a core part of the BC Retrofit Accelerator (BCRA). This partnership was thoughtfully designed to support strata corporations in planning major upgrades, enhancing energy efficiency, and executing comprehensive decarbonization roadmaps. This collaboration represents a significant step forward in accelerating building decarbonization across the province, helping stakeholders navigate complex retrofits with confidence while avoiding the traditional barriers of high planning costs and slow timelines.
See the VDP in Action
Curious about how it works? Watch our platform turn complex building performance data into straightforward retrofit strategies.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
To learn more about how to use your building data to drive better climate and financial performance, book a demo with our team today. We’ll show you how to streamline your journey to net zero.
About OPEN Technologies
OPEN Technologies builds data tools to help city-shapers make pro-climate decisions with confidence. We develop software tools that promote the market adoption of high-performance products and best practices in energy management. Our clients—policy makers, investors, and property owners with the power to shift real estate markets—see that traditional approaches to building data are too slow and costly. We seek to address this by translating commitments into effective action faster and at scale. Based in Vancouver, BC, our team of mission-driven professionals is dedicated to solving technical challenges in service of climate change mitigation and a regenerative urban future.