r-zero

R-Zero is the Physical AI platform for buildings. By combining existing building systems, real-time occupancy intelligence, and environmental data, R-Zero builds a continuously updated picture of how a building actually operates and how people use it, finding the operational waste that fixed schedules and forgotten settings leave behind. Across live deployments, R-Zero reduces HVAC energy use by 20 to 40 percent, helping owners lower operating costs, improve indoor environmental quality, and optimize building performance without replacing existing infrastructure or requiring major capital investment. R-Zero has raised $170 million from investors including La Caisse, Mayo Clinic Ventures, World Innovation Lab, John Doerr, and DBL Partners. Learn more at rzero.com.

evolution sustainability group

Evolution Sustainability Group is a full-service energy and sustainability consulting firm that helps organizations reduce utility costs, improve building performance, and achieve long-term energy and sustainability goals. Evolution works with clients across commercial real estate, hospitality, multifamily, senior living, education, nonprofit, and other energy-intensive industries.

Evolution’s services are built around three core areas: Energy Procurement & Risk Management, Efficiency Engineering, and ESG Consulting & Compliance.

Through its Energy Procurement team, Evolution helps clients develop purchasing strategies for electricity and natural gas, competitively source suppliers, manage market risk, and structure contracts around each organization’s operational and financial objectives.

Evolution’s Efficiency Engineering team evaluates how buildings consume energy and identifies opportunities to reduce operating costs through energy audits, lighting upgrades, HVAC and controls optimization, water conservation, building automation, and other efficiency measures.

The team also provides turnkey implementation and helps clients capture available utility incentives and rebates.

Evolution’s ESG Consulting & Compliance team supports organizations with energy benchmarking, building performance standards, emissions reduction strategies, sustainability reporting, and certifications.

By bringing these capabilities together under one roof, Evolution provides a comprehensive approach to managing both the cost and consumption of energy across individual properties and entire portfolios.

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