Roof-first thinking
Roof area is a fraction of the sun-facing surface on most commercial buildings. When only the roof is assessed, the largest solar surfaces in the portfolio never enter the numbers.
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The building envelope is an uncounted asset class
Most portfolios value the roof and ignore the façade. SolaMaxa scores every candidate surface — roof, glazing, spandrel, canopy — on a comparable basis, and models the economics including the conventional envelope cost a BIPV proposal avoids.
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The problem
What this work actually looks like today
Vendor-first sequencing
Without a comparable basis, the loudest or earliest pitch sets the agenda. Capital follows whoever quoted first — not necessarily the strongest opportunity.
The avoided-cost blind spot
BIPV replaces envelope: cladding, glazing, spandrel. A commercial model that prices BIPV as a bolt-on never credits the conventional envelope spend it displaces.
Proposals that stall at scrutiny
Investment committee asks where the yield came from, what the cost scope includes and whose assumptions they are. Fragmented workflows struggle to answer.
What changes
With SolaMaxa in the workflow
A comparable, whole-envelope shortlist
Every building scored on the same explainable basis — solar potential, deployable surface, economic return, carbon, constructability, utilisation and data confidence — so the ranking is defensible.
BIPV economics modelled as BIPV
The commercial model separates gross cost from credits — including avoided conventional envelope — so the net incremental investment, payback and NPV reflect what the project actually spends.
Evidence for investment review
Generation, cost and carbon figures with their assumption provenance — and reports whose figures map to calculation workpapers, so scrutiny lands on the assumptions, not the arithmetic.
From shortlist to sourced package
When a proposal earns investment, the same platform takes it to market: a controlled RFQ from the accepted strategy and quotes normalised to comparable bases.
Where this is grounded
The avoided-envelope credit is a first-class number
The commercial model keeps gross project cost, incentives and the avoided conventional envelope credit as separate, visible lines before computing net incremental CAPEX — the split is never hidden inside one net figure.