CRE Investments
This is the length of time an investor owns a property from the purchase date to the sale date.
What is a hold period?
These are the materials we request to identify current conditions in a building.
What are CapEx Documents?
This Cambio employee is #1 in Math in Argentina
Who is Gianni?
This is the full term for the acronym SMA
What is Space Meter Assignment
This percentage of global emissions comes from real estate, making it a key target for decarbonization efforts.
What is 40%?
This investment strategy involves buying underperforming assets, improving them, and selling them for a profit.
What is value-add investing?
This organization sets building performance standards and guidelines for energy efficiency.
What is ASHRAE?
This Cambio employee volunteers with Guide Dogs for the Blind
Who is Elise?
This AI technology helps Cambio ingest data from PDFs and spreadsheets.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
For landlords, this category of Scope 3 emissions comes from tenant-controlled energy use and activities within leased spaces—emissions that occur “behind the meter” but outside the landlord’s operational control.
What are tenant emissions (Scope 3)?
This type of investor raises equity from external limited partners to buy and operate buildings.
What is a general partner? (or Fund Manager)
This HVAC system conditions and distributes air throughout a building by drawing in outside and indoor air, filtering out particles, adjusting the temperature and humidity, and then supplying it through ductwork to create a comfortable and healthy indoor environment.
What is an air handling unit?
These three former investment firms are where Cambio's founders previously worked.
What are KKR Real Estate, Goldman Real Estate, and Oxford Property Group?
These are the three core services Cambio provides to customers.
What are carbon emissions analytics, automated reporting, and the decarbonization suite?
This carbon accounting methodology allows organizations to use emission factors from contractual instruments like renewable energy certificates, potentially reducing reported emissions to zero, as opposed to using grid average emission factors.
What is market-based accounting?
This term, abbreviated as NOI, represents rental income minus operating expenses and is used with cap rates to determine property value, but excludes capital expenditures which appear "below the line."
What is Net Operating Income?
This percentage of the world's building stock needs to be retrofitted to meet UN climate targets.
What is 85%?
This Cambio Employee runs, a lot.
Who is Amber?
This internal Retool page allows Cambio administrators to manage system settings, including turning on Free Tier permissions for Cambio Vault customers.
What is the "Cambio Configurations" Retool
This ASHRAE standard provides energy performance targets for existing buildings in different geographies and is increasingly used as a benchmark alternative to Energy Star benchmarking
What is ASHRAE Standard 100?
This is a measurement of profitability that shows an income-generating property's potential rate of return as a percentage of its value. It is calculated by dividing a property's annual Net Operating Income (NOI) by its current market value.
What is a Cap Rate?
This is the challenge associated with changing from a district energy system to local energy systems in a building?
What are Space & Infrastructure Constraints?
This author of the ASHRAE/NREL Decarbonization of Thermal Systems is now an Advisor to Cambio
Who is Steve Guttman?
This feature has a Q4 enhancement planned that will provide real-time visual updates to the feature based on changes within the retrofit project manager kanban board.
What is the Path to Net Zero chart?
This EPA dataset provides location-based emission factors by region and is used by Energy Star Portfolio Manager, with Cambio calculating emissions using these state-level factors for US properties?
What is eGrid (Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database)?