Built Environment Energy Advisory

Energy savings and compliance, properly governed across your buildings.

BuiltSpectra Advisory curates and governs a stack of leading-edge energy optimisation technologies — matching the right tool to each site type, sequencing adoption in line with ASHRAE and industry standards, so operators realise verified savings without losing control.

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The Problem

Operators are being sold tools designed for someone else's buildings.

"Not every site is ready for the same solution — and no single vendor will tell you that."

Operators across the built environment — whether running a distributed telecom network, a multifamily residential portfolio, a hotel brand, or a commercial real estate fund — share a common problem. The tools sold to them are designed for someone else's buildings, by vendors with their own ecosystems to protect.

Energy spend is material. Compliance obligations are real — ASHRAE 62.1, ASHRAE 241, IPMVP. And no single technology solves every building in your portfolio. A new generation of capable, vendor-agnostic optimisation tools has emerged, but operators lack a trusted, independent guide to evaluate, sequence, and govern their adoption safely. That is the gap BuiltSpectra Advisory was built to fill.

40–60% of energy

consumed by HVAC across most commercial and residential building types

Vendor lock-in

from incumbents who optimise for their own ecosystems, not your portfolio

No neutral guide

to assess, prescribe, and govern technology adoption across a complex, mixed portfolio

Who We Serve

Any operator running a buildings portfolio where energy costs are material and compliance is non-negotiable.

Telecom

Infrastructure Operators

Distributed unmanned sites across a legacy-heavy network — massive cooling loads, zero downtime tolerance, and BMS systems that predate modern optimisation tooling.

Residential

Multifamily & REIT Portfolios

Institutional owners and operators with portfolio-scale energy cost exposure, NOI improvement mandates, and growing ESG reporting obligations.

Hospitality

Hotels & Mixed-Use Assets

Complex thermal environments with continuous occupancy variation, brand standard compliance requirements, and significant per-property energy spend.

Commercial RE

Institutional Portfolios

Asset managers and facilities operators running Class A and B portfolios, where ASHRAE compliance, sustainability mandates, and tenant expectations converge.

What We Do

Portfolio assessment. Stack prescription. Governed adoption.

We work in three stages — each building the foundation for the next. No technology is introduced until the site and the client are ready for it.

01 — Assess

Portfolio Mapping

We evaluate your portfolio building by building — understanding energy profiles, operational constraints, legacy systems, and site typology. Not every property is ready for the same intervention.

02 — Prescribe

Stack Matching

Drawing on our curated stack of technologies, we match the right tool to each site type — sequencing introductions so each deployment builds trust, meets compliance obligations, and delivers verified results before the next layer is added.

03 — Govern

Ongoing Oversight

We stay engaged through deployment and beyond — monitoring performance, managing the partner relationship, and expanding the stack as the portfolio matures. Operators retain authority; we maintain the control plane.

The Stack

Curated technology partners. Independently governed.

We are not tied to any vendor. Every partner in the BuiltSpectra stack is selected because it is the right solution for a specific type of problem, in a specific type of built environment — and because it meets the compliance and verification standards operators are held to.

Stack Partner · Active

Poppy

Ventilation measurement, verification, and indoor air quality optimisation for occupied buildings. Poppy fixes over-ventilation — adjusting outdoor air dampers toward ASHRAE 62.1 and 241 standards — delivering guaranteed energy savings with no retrofits and no capital investment. Results are verified using IPMVP methodology.

ASHRAE 62.1 · ASHRAE 241 · IPMVP verified · ESCO model · No retrofits required

Stack Partner · Active

Brick AI

AI-native autonomous energy optimisation and demand control — the layer that follows Poppy as the portfolio matures. Brick AI's reinforcement learning platform delivers closed-loop thermal control across HVAC and BMS systems, achieving 15–30% energy savings without rip-and-replace. Brand-agnostic and deployable in 60 days.

AI-native · Reinforcement learning · BMS-compatible · 60-day deployment · 15–30% HVAC savings

The Team

Operator credibility. Investment rigour. Both in the room.

A two-person practice that combines decades of built environment operator experience with a venture-minded approach to technology evaluation. Deliberately lean — so the focus stays on getting the prescription right, not scaling headcount.

Co-founder · Business Development

Serge

Former CTO at a Tier-1 Canadian telco, responsible for a distributed infrastructure network where energy, compliance, and zero downtime were non-negotiable. Serge brings executive-level operator credibility that technology vendors cannot manufacture — relationships built on trust across telecom, real estate, and hospitality, where conversations start as peer discussions, not vendor pitches.

Co-founder · Strategy & Partnerships

Jon Fredericks

Jon brings an investor's rigour to BuiltSpectra's stack — evaluating technologies the way a venture-minded operator would: commercial viability, deployment reality, and long-term fit across a heterogeneous portfolio. He is the architect of BuiltSpectra's partner relationships, including the commercial structures that govern how stack technologies are introduced, sequenced, and compensated.

His background spans impact investing in life sciences and climate, strategic advisory to technology companies across the built environment. He currently serves as CEO of Ilustro Ventures and is a Strategic Advisor to Poppy.

Let's talk about your buildings.

BuiltSpectra works with building and infrastructure operators and technology partners on a selective basis. If you are evaluating energy optimisation technologies for your portfolio — or looking to bring them to market through a trusted operator channel — we would welcome a conversation.

Jon

Jon@builtspectra.com

Serge

Serge@builtspectra.com

Focus

Telecom · Multifamily · Hospitality · Commercial RE

Based

Canada — active across North America

Website

builtspectra.com