Smart Innovators: Building Simulation And Modelling Tools For Energy Management

Executive Summary

Building owners are under growing pressure to understand how their assets will perform, before committing capital to energy upgrades, decarbonization plans or resilience strategies. Rising energy costs, tightening carbon disclosure requirements and investor scrutiny of asset performance mean that decisions about retrofits, electrification and operational optimization increasingly depend on credible energy and carbon forecasts. Building modelling and simulation tools are therefore moving beyond design-stage engineering workflows and becoming part of operational energy management and investment planning. This report benchmarks 17 vendors and solutions across 10 capabilities in building modelling and simulation for energy management, helping real estate, energy and sustainability leaders identify platforms that match their needs – whether their priority is operational performance monitoring, retrofit investment modelling, decarbonization pathway analysis or climate resilience assessment. Vendors and product teams can use the research to benchmark their capabilities against a structured framework and understand how the market is evolving as simulation, operational analytics and digital twin platforms begin to converge.