Sustainability strategies fail when ambition doesn’t turn into action. You know the goals – net zero by 2050, climate-resilient infrastructure, circular water systems – but without address-level data, it’s hard to determine where and how to act.
Which buildings have solar potential? Where are heat and flood risks highest? How do you prioritize investments across large portfolios? Asset, risk, and infrastructure leaders, urban planners, and sustainable finance professionals all rely on precise, on-the-ground insights to translate sustainability goals into real-world action.
Belmap’s AI-powered Digital Twin delivers the location intelligence to decide with confidence. A single, continuously updated source of property and address data makes sustainability measurable, targetable, and achievable.
Energy transition: from ambition to action
Energy transition planning struggles when you lack building-specific intelligence.
Which rooftops are viable for solar? Where should district heating networks expand? Which neighborhoods offer the best return on heat pump installations?
Belmap provides the granular property data you need to identify optimal locations for renewable infrastructure, from solar arrays to EV charging stations: roof orientation and surface area calculations, Energy Performance Indicators based on building age, type, and use, and spatial analysis tools.
What Belmap enables:
- Solar potential mapping: Identify high-value rooftops by orientation, surface area, and building type
- District heating planning: Prioritize buildings with the highest energy demand and connection ROI
- Heat pump targeting: Assess building volume, age, and insulation proxies to guide installations
- EV infrastructure placement: Optimize charging locations based on density, parking, and housing characteristics
Nett unlocks solar capacity
Green energy supplier Nett used Belmap to reinforce their market strategy and identify untapped solar potential across the Benelux. With precise rooftop data, Nett accelerated sales by targeting properties with the highest energy savings potential, delivering value to homeowners while expanding renewable capacity.
Climate adaptation: building resilience through spatial intelligence
What Belmap enables:
- Urban heat island mapping: Simulate temperature variations across neighborhoods to prioritize cooling interventions
- Green infrastructure planning: Calculate the cooling effect of tree canopy expansion or green roof installations before implementation
- Pervious surface analysis: Assess water absorption capacity across parcels to reduce stormwater runoff and flooding
- Shadow flicker mitigation: Model wind turbine shadow patterns on residential buildings to balance renewable energy with livability
Urban heat islands don't affect cities uniformly.
Flood risk varies from street to street. Effective climate adaptation requires knowing exactly where interventions will deliver the greatest impact.
Belmap's Digital Twin enables cities and organizations to move beyond generic climate strategies. Our platform runs heat stress simulations based on actual urban form, vegetation coverage, and building characteristics. This spatial intelligence identifies where green infrastructure – additional trees, green roofs, permeable surfaces – will cool neighborhoods most effectively.
Mons targets urban cooling
The city of Mons used Belmap to evaluate their "Canopy Plan" tree plantation campaign. By simulating heat stress across the urban landscape, Mons identified the streets and neighborhoods where additional tree cover would deliver the greatest cooling benefit, ensuring public investment creates measurable climate resilience.
Engie optimizes street lighting for biodiversity
Energy infrastructure must coexist with nature. Engie Laborelec partnered with Belmap to build an AI model that maps land cover and light point locations. This technology determines the optimal lighting type and density to ensure safety while minimizing ecological impact.
Water management: sustainable water stewardship
Water infrastructure operates across vast networks.
Here, small inefficiencies can compound into major losses. Monitoring aging systems for leaks, managing consumption, and planning interventions requires a foundational layer of accurate location data.
Belmap provides the address and property reference that utilities rely on for intervention planning. When leaks occur or consumption anomalies arise, precise geocoding ensures field teams reach the right location quickly, reducing water loss and operational costs.
What Belmap enables:
- Leak detection and response: Speed up field interventions and reduce water waste with accurate geocoding of leak reports
- Network infrastructure planning: Use detailed address data to help schedule maintenance and make smart investment choices for network planning
- Consumption analysis: Link building characteristics – type, age, occupancy – to usage patterns for targeted conservation programs
- Stormwater management: Assess pervious vs. impervious surfaces across parcels to model flood risk and drainage capacity
Green finance: empowering sustainable investment
What Belmap enables:
- Portfolio sustainability assessment: Evaluate energy performance across thousands of buildings without manual site visits
- Renovation investment targeting: Identify properties where energy upgrades will deliver the highest returns and carbon savings
- Climate risk analysis: Assess flood exposure, heat stress, and storm vulnerability using building location and characteristics
- Insurance risk modeling: Integrate building type, roof shape, solar panel presence, and environmental factors for accurate premium calculations
Financial institutions, real estate investors, and sustainability consultants face mounting pressure from EU regulations to assess portfolio sustainability. Belmap delivers the building characteristics and environmental context they need to make these assessments at scale.
Which properties offer the highest renovation ROI? How do you assess climate risk across a portfolio of thousands of buildings? Where should capital flow to maximize energy savings and emissions reductions?
SCOPR.ai transforms home buying decisions
Belgian PropTech startup SCOPR.ai built their renovation cost estimation app on Belmap's building data foundation. Prospective homebuyers receive accurate, AI-powered renovation cost projections based on current building characteristics. This helps them make better-informed purchase decisions and set realistic renovation budgets.
CFP Green Buildings scales sustainability assessments
Sustainability consultant CFP Green Buildings integrated Belmap into their Green Buildings Tool, making it faster and easier to evaluate property sustainability profiles. By removing the need to collect data by hand, CFP can do more assessments more accurately, guiding investors to put money into properties that make the biggest environmental difference.
Turn sustainability goals into action
Sustainability isn't a destination but a series of decisions. The right decisions require accurate, relevant data.
Belmap provides the location intelligence that transforms climate commitments into measurable outcomes. Whether you're planning renewable energy deployment, adapting cities to rising temperatures, managing water infrastructure, or directing green finance, our Digital Twin ensures you always work with the most accurate, up-to-date property data available. Moreover, this data is continuously refreshed, rigorously quality-controlled, and ready to integrate into your workflows through our API.
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