Verdantix Report Confirms: Building Owners Need Advanced Simulation & AUROS Group Uniquely Delivers

A new report from independent analyst firm Verdantix, "Smart Innovators: Building Simulation And Modelling Tools For Energy Management, March 2026," confirms a fundamental shift in the real estate market. The era of treating building energy models as design-stage artifacts is over. Today, building owners face a dual mandate: they must provide auditable, real-time evidence of current performance to comply with local Building Performance Standards (BPS) in cities like New York, Boston, and Denver, while also producing credible, forward-looking simulations to satisfy global climate disclosure frameworks like Climate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The report makes it clear that traditional, statistics-based approaches are no longer sufficient to navigate this complex landscape of regulatory fines and investor scrutiny.

In its assessment of 17 vendors, the Verdantix report evaluated platforms against these demanding new requirements. AUROS Group was assessed as a market leader across a subset of key capabilities, including Energy Simulation, Energy Forecasting, Carbon Modelling, and Operational Monitoring. These strengths directly address the needs of building owners facing BPS deadlines, providing the defensible, hourly carbon accounting (using EIA/EPA factors) and models calibrated to under 1% of actual consumption required to accurately track performance and avoid costly fines. This provides a clear, data-driven answer to the critical question, "Did I get what I paid for?"

Crucially, the report highlights Climate Scenario Modelling as one of the most commercially significant gaps in the market — a capability essential for satisfying global disclosure mandates. It is here that AUROS Group was noted for its distinct, market-leading methodology. The report cites AUROS Group's ability to generate complete 8,760-hour future weather files under recognized SSP2 scenarios for 2030, 2050, and 2070. Verdantix describes this as representing "a level of climate modelling rigour that very few platforms in this market approach," directly providing the simulation-grounded evidence base that institutional investors and regulations like The European Union’s CSRD now demand companies answer the most important forward-looking question: "What is my building's optimum performance potential, and how will it perform in the future?"