Analytic Tools & Metric Methodology – Scaler

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Using Analytics 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.

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.

Advanced analytics & modeling

Customising Scaler end-to-end: from inputs to dashboards

How Scaler's five customization layers (inputs, calculations, metrics, targets, dashboards) connect into one analytics workflow. Includes worked examples for LP DDQs and tracking custom KPIs.

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.

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.