Analytic Tools & Metric Methodology
Using Analytic dashboards
Energy analytic 'Views'
Understand the different Energy analytics views in Scaler, what each option changes in your charts, and when to use each view for analysis, comparison, or reporting.
Fiscal year analytics
Understand how fiscal year analytics work in Scaler, how fiscal years affect analytics views, and which metrics and reports support fiscal year reporting.
Building Units: Using analytic dashboards
View energy, emissions, and data coverage analytics at the building-unit level to understand how individual spaces contribute to overall asset performance.
Getting started with the Roadmap tool
What the Roadmap tool is for and how to get going: find it, set up inputs, choose or create a pathway, then read your projection. Links to the detailed guides.
Navigating the Analytics Portal
Find your way around the Analytics Portal: the company, portfolio, and asset levels, the main dashboards, and how to read a performance view.
Using Meter Analytics
Explore meter-level analytics for an asset: the meter list with data coverage badges, consumption trends per meter, and the data coverage calendar for locating gaps.
Understanding metrics
Normalization methodologies in Scaler
Understand how Scaler normalizes energy data to enable fair comparisons across assets, years, and portfolios, and how different normalization approaches are applied in analytics and reporting.
Energy use intensity (EUI)
Understand how Energy Use Intensity (EUI) is calculated in Scaler, what it represents, and how to interpret EUI values in analytics and reporting.
Currency conversion methodology
Explains how Scaler converts cost-related data into a portfolio reporting currency using reference exchange rates, including scope, methodology, and conversion rules.
Targets, benchmarks & scores
Setting and viewing Targets, Pathways & Benchmarks
Set portfolio-level and property-subtype targets or benchmarks in Scaler and view them across Analytics and Roadmaps to track performance over time.
Scores in Scaler
Understand the scoring models available in Scaler, what each score represents, and how to use scores to contextualize ESG and decarbonization performance.
GRESB Dashboard and Score Modelling
Use the GRESB Dashboard to model GRESB scores, track progress throughout the year, and identify improvement opportunities before submission.
ASHRAE targets for energy and GHG intensity
View and benchmark asset-level energy use intensity (EUI) and GHG emissions intensity against ASHRAE 2030 targets directly in Scaler’s Analytics Portal.
Roadmaps & retrofit planning
Building your decarbonization roadmap end-to-end: from data to CapEx
The recommended end-to-end workflow for building a roadmap in Scaler: readiness, data quality, pathways and targets, then modelling and sign-off of a costed CapEx plan.
Roadmap Tool: Overview and methodology
Understand how Scaler models long-term energy and emissions performance, how portfolio-level numbers are calculated, and what assumptions underpin roadmap projections.
Setting up roadmap inputs
Configure the measures, acquisitions, disposals, and pathway targets that drive your roadmap projections in Scaler.
Interpreting Roadmap results
Understand what each tab, chart, and metric in the Roadmap Analysis view shows and how to use the results to assess and communicate portfolio decarbonisation performance.
Roadmap audit trail download
Download a detailed Excel file showing how portfolio-level roadmap values are calculated, including asset-level data and aggregation logic.
CRREM North America Pathways
Explains how CRREM North America 1.5°C pathways (V2.04) work in Scaler, including eligibility requirements, configuration steps, and how to interpret results.
Building and comparing roadmap scenarios
Create named scenarios in the Roadmap Strategy tab, toggle measures per scenario, and compare decarbonisation pathways side by side within one portfolio.
Modelling measures that affect multiple energy carriers
Capture reductions and increases across more than one energy carrier in a single roadmap measure, such as a heat pump that cuts gas but raises electricity.
Custom features
Customizing Scaler end-to-end: from inputs to dashboards
How Scaler's custom features (input fields, calculations, emission factors, metrics, targets, dashboards) connect into one workflow, from data collection to reporting. Includes worked examples for LP DDQs and tracking custom KPIs.
Custom Dashboard Builder
Create custom analytics dashboards with pre-made and custom charts, tailored to your organization's reporting priorities.
Custom Metrics dashboard
Create, customise, and export KPI tables in the Analytics Portal to support analysis, benchmarking, and investor reporting.
AI data tools in Scaler
An overview of Scaler’s AI-powered tools that support data validation, analysis, forecasting, and decision-making across ESG workflows.
Building Performance Standards
Using the Local Regulations page
Track your portfolio's BPS compliance, estimate penalty exposure, and log benchmarking submissions across all supported jurisdictions in one view.
Benchmarking vs. Building Performance Standards on the Local Regulations page
Understand the difference between benchmarking reporting and Building Performance Standards, and how to track both on the Local Regulations page.
Supported BPS jurisdictions in Scaler
See which Building Performance Standards Scaler supports, what each one measures, and how penalties are estimated by jurisdiction.
NYC Local Law 97 (LL97) in Scaler
How Scaler identifies, maps, and evaluates compliance with New York City Local Law 97 (LL97), a Building Performance Standard.
Boston BERDO (Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance) in Scaler
How Scaler identifies, maps, and evaluates compliance with Boston's Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO).
DC BEPS in Scaler
How Scaler evaluates Washington DC's Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS), which limit Source Energy Use Intensity rather than emissions.
Energize Denver in Scaler
How Scaler evaluates Denver's Energize Denver performance standard, which limits Site Energy Use Intensity (EUI) rather than emissions.
Ontario EWRB and benchmarking ordinances in Scaler
How Scaler tracks Ontario EWRB and other benchmarking ordinances: who must report, the deadlines, and how to log submissions on the Local Regulations page.