KUGU sichert sich 8,5 Millionen Euro für die Dekarbonisierung der Immobilienbranche
The company Green Invest in Berlin has set itself the goal of CO2-free living and is a joint customer of Habitalix and KUGU, two PropTechs for digitizing the real estate industry. Together, the two partners invited Green Invest to an interview to illustrate the cooperation between the two digital service providers using a successful practical example.
Green Invest — CO2-free living in Berlin
Green Invest pursues the goal of making CO2-neutral living possible. To this end, CO2 consumption will first be optimized through energy renovations (wall insulation, new windows, replacement of heating for heat pumps/solar therm/ventilation with heat recovery) or investments in low-investment efficiency measures. Finally, residual consumption is offset by purchasing CO2 certificates or financing CO2-reducing projects.
In recent years, the focus has been in particular on testing the functionality and efficiency of various energy efficiency services. This has shown that relatively CO2 savings can be achieved with just a few investments. Green Invest is now consistently using these technologies (e.g. smart heating control, hydraulic balancing, pump replacement) in its buildings to significantly reduce heating and operating costs.
Lack of transparency, inflexible service providers and a lot of “paperwork”
Despite a clear vision and active implementation, there are also some hurdles in Green Invest's day-to-day work. In the area of building management, this is primarily the lack of ability to view consumption data via open interfaces. In addition, many service providers on the market are often inflexible in their working methods.
When managing properties, it is important for Green Invest to find a digital approach to tenant management. “Paperwork” should ideally be replaced by digital processes in order to enable transparency, but also rapid process execution and thus a high level of tenant satisfaction.
Digital proptech solutions provide a remedy
Both KUGU and Habitalix have set themselves the goal of creating solutions to these challenges, which also affect many other market participants. Both service providers offer digital solutions to make working methods smart, efficient and transparent.
KUGU transforms building management with a digital, open building management platform
Die KUGU Home GmbH offers residential and energy companies real savings potential in energy and CO2 with the help of a digital and innovative energy data platform. The modular software-as-a-service solution makes energy data transparent in real time, evaluates it with the help of artificial intelligence and visualizes the results on the platform. In this way, KUGU optimizes plant efficiency and makes energy measurable, transparent and easy to calculate. The PropTech plug & play software consists of various modules, from a digital boiler room to a simple billing system and CO2 monitoring, which can be booked individually according to customer requirements. For example, KUGU is already helping its customers significantly improve their CO2 balance and make buildings ESG-compliant and future-proof.
In the case of Green Invest, KUGU has made data viewing and transmission more efficient with its open platform in particular. Through the digital platform, third-party contractors commissioned by the owner can also access relevant data and use it, among other things, to optimize the heating system.
But the tenant side is also included here for holistic transparency. With the app developed by KUGU, tenants can easily read consumption themselves and, through visualization, get a good insight into the current status. For Green Building, all these advantages were decisive for good cooperation.
Habitalix puts an end to “paperwork”, poor service & opaque administration
Habitalix, founded in 2016 by Celine Danto, now manages 1000 units throughout Berlin and Brandenburg and focuses not only on the “classic” management of apartment buildings and special property management, but also on the smart and climate-neutral development of real estate.
The specially developed owner portal enables maximum transparency about current management processes and portfolio issues. Communication is massively facilitated for tenants and owners, as small concerns can be answered at any time via chat. At the same time, the digital portal also means the end of paperwork and perpetual file folders. All documents & reports are regularly made available via cloud and the portal is accessible from anywhere and anytime.
Despite its digital approach, Habitalix continues to focus on personal communication and is personally available at any time for all important concerns. Green Invest highly appreciates this hybrid approach. The topic of smart building solutions is also in good hands with Habitalix: “We are not only property managers, but are also very familiar with smart home solutions and their integration. We advise our owners in partnership on all value-relevant topics of a property. In addition to tech and yield optimization, there is also a lot about sustainability issues. ”, emphasizes Céline Danto, founder and managing director.
What makes the combination of Habitalix & KUGU so unique
According to Green Invest, “Both partners are very flexible, willing to learn and respond to constantly changing customer needs. This makes working with both partners particularly pleasant and efficient.” This is exactly what reinforces both KUGU and Habitalix in their visions of simplifying processes, increasing transparency and saving resources. It is precisely these associations of experts and companies that are significantly driving the energy revolution forward and are of great importance for achieving climate goals.
