ETF Digest
Talk to Your Building. Get Insights. Take Action. Next Sense launching the Building Intelligence Centre.
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10 September 2026
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We are proud to see our portfolio company Next Sense launch the Building Intelligence Centre (BIC), which marks a step-change in how commercial buildings manage their energy, cost and comfort.
The premise is elegantly simple yet quietly radical: you can now pose a question to your building and receive a substantive answer.
You might ask what is driving energy use, where costs are quietly creeping upward, whether occupants are comfortable, or how the space is being used.
The BIC does not stop at answering these questions. Powered by agentic AI and supported by Next Sense’s Building Performance Experts, it interrogates issues, identifies their root causes and recommends the appropriate course of action. This is precisely the kind of energy and cost efficiency that was simply unattainable before AI.
What impresses us most, beyond the product itself, is the sheer quality of execution. Bringing something this ambitious to market demands a formidable team, and this one has delivered.
Our congratulations go to Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Enrico Rosa, Pim Rutgers and everyone at Next Sense on this exciting milestone!
Your buildings can converse now, and it is well worth listening to what they have to say.