Swiss proptech firm Norm Technologies develops building energy efficiency management software to boost the energy management efficiency of building assets | Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
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The Swiss real estate technology company Norm Technologies was founded in 2022. The company is committed to developing building energy efficiency management software. This software can integrate various scattered building energy consumption data and support services such as building asset assessment, carbon dioxide emission reduction measurement, and AI report generation, which are used to evaluate the energy efficiency, carbon emission level, and energy-saving renovation potential of buildings.
Norm Technologies was co-founded by Gian Reto à Porta, Marius Zumwald, Flurin Müller, and others. Gian Reto à Porta is the CEO of the company. He once led the establishment of the fintech company Contovista and has served as a board member of companies such as Yokoy and Skribble. Marius Zumwald is the head of research and innovation at the company and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Flurin Müller is the head of product at the company and has more than 10 years of experience in digital product construction.
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The construction sector is one of the important sources of global carbon emissions, accounting for about one-third of the total global carbon dioxide emissions. The industry faces significant pressure to reduce emissions. Currently, building and real estate asset managers usually need to manage dozens or even hundreds of buildings. However, the underlying data is scattered, outdated, and unstructured, with uneven quality, making it difficult to accurately grasp the actual energy consumption, carbon emissions, and equipment operation status of each building. At the same time, due to the inconsistent data caliber, insufficient granularity, lagging updates, and lack of traceability, it is difficult to make horizontal comparisons between assets, and it is also impossible to accurately locate specific renovation links such as roofs, windows, heating systems, and exterior walls. Enterprises often have difficulty judging the renovation priority, required measures, costs, and returns of each building, which significantly increases the difficulty and cost of renovation decisions. The credibility of ESG reports, financing reviews, and investment decisions is also severely weakened.
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Norm Technologies has developed building energy efficiency management software. This software can integrate all scattered building data into a modular system and achieve evaluation and analysis down to the component level, providing users with building energy efficiency assessment and planning support.
Norm Technologies' software uses the API access method to centralize scattered building data into one system, providing a structured overview of information such as the location, area, and energy efficiency of all assets. It also supports flexible filtering by dimensions such as construction year, geographical location, and energy grade, helping users identify the risks and opportunities of each asset early and manage the asset portfolio more targeted. At the same time, the software provides component-level management services, which can summarize all components in the building, such as roofs, doors and windows, and heating systems, and associate them with the 3D building model. Users can view data such as component status assessment, maintenance tips, and remaining service life assessment with one click, as well as recommended energy efficiency standards, renovation suggestions, and cost estimates.
In terms of capital expenditure management and energy-saving planning, Norm Technologies' software can determine the renovation nodes for each building and list the capital expenditure budget, operating expenditure changes, subsidy measurement, and carbon dioxide emission reduction path required for building renovation. Based on artificial intelligence technology, the software can judge investment peaks, budget gaps, and priority renovation projects, and simulate the impact of different renovation plans on future operating costs and energy consumption. In addition, the software can also generate various high-quality AI reports according to user needs, significantly reducing the data sorting cost in management reports, ESG reports, and audit materials, and improving the credibility of reports through a reproducible data query and source tracking mechanism.
Based on the above functional modules, Norm Technologies can provide three major services: analysis, certification, and real estate digitization. The analysis service includes building status assessment, energy analysis, dynamic building simulation, and development potential assessment, which are mainly used to judge building renovation needs, energy-saving potential, carbon emission paths, and investment priorities. The certification service includes energy certificates, GEAK, and BREEAM certifications, which mainly help customers meet energy, sustainability, and compliance disclosure requirements. The real estate digitization service includes 3D modeling, building surveying, and area classification. By converting the spatial, area, component, and status information of buildings into standardized digital assets, it provides the underlying data basis for subsequent asset management, ESG reports, and investment decisions.
The target customers of Norm Technologies are mainly institutions such as real estate asset managers, funds, banks, insurance companies, and energy companies that hold a large number of building assets. Currently, the company has established partnerships with major Swiss financial institutions such as UBS, Swiss Life, Swiss Prime Site, Helvetia, and the energy supplier SAK.
Norm Technologies is a company on the list of "TOP 100 Swiss Startups" in 2025. The "TOP 100 Swiss Startups" brings together the best Swiss-made startups and growing technology innovation companies. It is the most internationally influential benchmark list in the field of Swiss technology innovation. Since 2011, this list has selected 100 of the most innovative and market - promising Swiss innovation companies and 25 Swiss growing companies with the most unicorn potential across Switzerland every year, covering fields such as life sciences, engineering machinery, robotics, information and communication, low - carbon technology, and food technology. The "TOP 100 Swiss Startups" and related brand activities are iconic events in the Swiss innovation ecosystem, representing the highest level of Swiss innovation and the forefront of international investment and financing.
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