Automating the Optimisation Roadmap: Where AI Actually Earns Its Place
Most building owners know their portfolio could perform better. Far fewer can say, with confidence, which building to start with, which intervention delivers the most value, and what it will be worth.
Producing that answer has traditionally meant an energy audit: expensive, point-in-time, and out of date within months. This panel examines what changes when that analysis runs continuously and automatically across a portfolio.
The discussion covers how AI is used to identify and rank optimisation opportunities, how those findings translate into performance ratings including NABERS UK, and where human judgement remains essential. The panel considers what building owners should expect from automated analysis, and what they should be sceptical of.
Attendees will learn
● What an automated optimisation roadmap contains, and how it differs from a traditional energy audit
● How to prioritise interventions across a portfolio when capital is constrained
● Where automated analysis is reliable, and where engineering judgement is still required
● How continuous analysis supports performance ratings including NABERS UK
Session Speaker
Haibo Chen is Head of Global Services at Bueno Analytics and one of the most experienced practitioners working in smart building analytics today. He leads service delivery across Bueno's operations in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.
Haibo began his career in sustainability consulting, where he was closely involved in the development of NABERS, the world's first legislated building performance standard. That grounding in how building performance is measured and verified has shaped his work ever since.
He joined Bueno in 2014, in the company's first year. Over more than twelve years he has led engineering, product and customer success before taking on his current role, playing a central role in developing the advanced analytics capability the platform runs on today. Throughout, he has worked directly with customers and partners in every market Bueno operates, turning complex building data into practical insight that drives energy efficiency, operational improvement and measurable sustainability outcomes.
Haibo speaks globally on building analytics and building performance, and is equally at home in the deepest technical detail or the portfolio-level strategy conversation. He is driven by a clear mission: to help great people create a better built environment through the power of data.
