Introduction to the Roadmap Tool in Scaler
The Roadmap tool allows you to visualize:
- Pathway Targets, Benchmarks, and Measures.
- Energy/Emissions Roadmaps including portfolio wide visualization of future and projected performance. The impact of retrofit measures and acquisition and disposition planning.
- Stranding Risk: Based on EUI/GHG intensity, visualizes the likelihood of the portfolio becoming stranded in alignment with the CRREM 1.5 pathway
- Capital Investments by year
- Visualize planned CapEx across your portfolio by year and measure type.
- Cumulative CapEx & Emissions Savings
- Visualize the CapEx savings associated with emissions reductions
- Annual Cost Exposure from Emissions Misalignment
- Model the potential financial exposure of your portfolio if a carbon price were applied to emissions misalignment.
Important to know
EUI (Energy Use Intensity) = Total Annual Energy Usage / Total Active Floor Areas
GHG Emissions Intensity = Total Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions / Total Active Floor Areas
CRREM 1.5°C [Paris aligned] - The CRREM methodology defines the maximum allowable operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (measured in kgCO₂e/m²/year) and the maximum allowable Energy Use Intensity (measured in kWh/m²/yr) for a specific building, in a specific location, over time, to be considered aligned with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.
Relationship Between GIA and GFA in CRREM Risk Assessments
CRREM’s methodology technically references Gross Internal Area (GIA), as this measure more accurately reflects the internal usable space of a building and therefore aligns closely with energy- and emissions-intensity calculations.
However, in practice, many industry standards and reporting frameworks—including GRESB—use Gross Floor Area (GFA) when assessing CRREM exposure or interpreting CRREM outputs.
Why GFA Is Often Used Operationally
Although GIA is the theoretically preferred metric for CRREM, GFA is more widely available and consistently reported globally, especially across investment managers and property types. In contrast:
- GIA is not uniformly defined or collected across markets.
- Accessing or deriving GIA often requires additional methodological assumptions, surveys, or architectural data that many organizations do not have.
- GFA is already embedded in most portfolio-level reporting flows and external benchmarks.
Because of this, using GFA as a default input is often a pragmatic choice that maximizes data availability and consistency while still enabling meaningful CRREM risk assessment.
Implication for Scaler’s Current Approach
Given the global variation in area definitions and the availability of GFA across clients and asset classes, Scaler defaults to GFA for CRREM-related calculations unless a user provides GIA explicitly. This reduces the reliance on assumptions, aligns with common market practice (including GRESB), and ensures broader compatibility with clients’ existing datasets.
How to: Add Targets & Benchmarks
Collection→ Portfolio→ Targets or Benchmarks
Measures
The Measures function within the Roadmap tool, allows for the visualization of future interventions, that improve the EUI or GHG Emission intensity. The measures include reduction type, intervention year, total savings, percentage of reduction and additional fields that all contribute towards the reduction of intensity. Through the addition of new measures, the intensity curve slopes downwards and therefore allows a portfolio to stay under the selected pathway.
How to: Add Measures
In the platform
- Portfolio → Collection → Roadmaps → Add Measure
Bulk through the Scaler Template
- Asset → Collection → Download → Building Measures
Acquisitions
The Acquisitions function within the Roadmap tool, allows for the option of planned acquisitions in the future, that include the size, total consumption and year of the acquisition. This affects the intensity slope as the Total Active Floor Areas and Total Energy Usage change, therefore changing the equations of EUI and GhG Emissions Intensity.
How to: Add Acquisitions
In the platform
- Portfolio → Collection → Roadmaps → Add Acquisition
Analysis
- Portfolio → Analytics → Roadmaps
Tips
- Select the “pathway” dropdown by each graph to select both preloaded (ex: CRREM) and custom pathways.
- Use the filter to customize the assets, measures, etc. included in your projections.
- Use the “view” to access normalization options like: time, occupancy, and weather.
Energy/GHG Emissions
- Filter
- Select property type, subtype, and location to display assets fitting the selected parameters
- Net Zero Scores
- Signifies the asset’s alignment with energy and emissions based targets; a score closer to 100 indicates a more optimal intensity that is already lower than the target, while a score closer to 0 means that target intensity is already above the goal.
- Use Intensity Roadmap
- Model intensity against preloaded or custom pathways by property subtype, asset, or location.
Measures by Asset
Measures are grouped under their associated asset, property type/subtype, and location. This is useful, as the CRREM 1.5°C [Paris aligned] pathway is calculated according to the property type.
Understanding the "Carbon Cost of Excess Emissions" Graph
This graph shows the monetary value of emissions that exceed or fall below decarbonization pathways, estimating the financial impact of exceeding carbon targets under a carbon pricing scheme.
To use the graph, select a decarbonization pathway (e.g., Aggregated: CRREM 1.5°C [Paris aligned] (Carbon)) and a carbon price in portfolio settings.
In your portfolio, excess emissions begin in year X—when projected average emissions exceed the selected target pathway (see CO₂ Emission Roadmap graph).
What is Carbon Value at Risk (CVaR)?
Carbon Value at Risk (CVaR) measures potential financial risk from excess emissions relative to targets. It shows exposure to stranding risk under future carbon pricing or regulatory scenarios.
Formula:
- Total Carbon Savings = (Predicted intensity value – Target value [CRREM]) × Total gross floor area
Higher CVaR indicates greater exposure to future carbon costs and need for significant investment or operational changes. Comparing CVaR across assets identifies which are most vulnerable to policy shifts or carbon price increases.
Where:
Portfolio → Analytics → Roadmaps (at the bottom)
