Audette & OCAF: Ottawa real estate decarb partnership

As part of their building decarbonization efforts, the Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF) has partnered with Audette to equip Ottawa’s commercial real estate owners and investors with a tailored decarbonization planning software for their portfolio at no cost through December 2025.

Audette is a first-of-its-kind software platform that builds multi-decade decarbonization plans for entire portfolios (down to the asset level). Its machine learning platform is trained on >400,000 building models and encodes the energy retrofit logic from 50+ years of professional engineering experience.

Participating owners will provide a few basic stats on the buildings in their portfolio (address, type, GFA, # of floors) in their portfolio. From there they will get access to Audette for real-time decarbonization plans for each commercial buildings (office, retail, MURB, Warehouses, senior living facilities) in their Ottawa portfolio including:

• Carbon baseline & BAU trajectory through 2050
• Decarbonization potential with achievable carbon end state
• Decarbonization roadmap & project schedule
• Cost to decarbonize: total & incremental
• Financial metrics: ROI, NPV, YoY cash flow & more

We're supporting organizations with >25 assets across Canada & the US, in Office, Retail, MURB, Warehouse, Medical Office, Long-Term Care, or Hospitality to start.

Not sure if you’re eligible? Reach out and we’ll let you know!