These Swiss Proptech Solutions could transform your built environment. Amid mounting regulatory pressure and climate targets, real-estate stakeholders increasingly demand tools that align renovation, operation, and construction with CO₂, cost, and ESG goals.
The following four companies each offer distinct software-based solutions, from portfolio-wide renovation planning, to building control, to carbon accounting, to BIM-based lifecycle optimization, enabling data-driven decarbonisation and performance improvements across the building lifecycle.
Scandens: Data-driven renovation & investment planning for existing buildings
What it solves: Scandens addresses the complexity, time demands, and risk of manual renovation planning and energy audits. It enables building owners, consultants or portfolio managers to quickly identify which properties need refurbishment, which refurbishment measures make sense (technically & financially), and when, all while factoring in CO₂, subsidies, regulations and profitability.
How it works / core features
Automated data management & building audits: The platform collects portfolio or building-level data (from minimal inputs up to detailed specifications), builds a digital twin, and performs automated condition assessments. This replaces slow, manual audits and data gathering.
Energy modelling + embodied & operational emissions accounting: Scandens runs energy models (operational) and computes embodied emissions (“grey emissions”) as part of each renovation scenario, enabling total-impact assessment, not just operational energy savings.
Mass strategy generation and comparison: Users can generate and compare hundreds (500+) renovation strategies per building/portfolio — varying envelope upgrades, energy systems, PV, subsidy schemes, rent changes, etc. evaluating each across financial performance, subsidy potential, rent implications, regulatory compliance, PV yield, and emissions.
Dynamic, market-aware planning: Plans are not static. Scandens allows “one-click” updates if market conditions shift, e.g., energy prices, subsidies, regulatory requirements, to avoid stranded assets or missed renovation windows.
From building to portfolio level: The software links component-, building- and portfolio-level data, letting users translate corporate ESG or net-zero targets into concrete renovation investment plans across entire real-estate portfolios.
Why this matters: This end-to-end digital solution simplifies complex renovation planning, reduces manual workloads, enables quantitative comparison of options, and helps align financial and decarbonisation goals, accelerating renovation uptake and supporting scalable building decarbonization.
Learn more about Scandens PropTech Solution.
viboo: Smart building control (Predictive Control as a Service) for operational energy savings
What it solves: viboo is a Swiss PropTech Solution tackling inefficiency in heating and cooling control in existing buildings, especially those with traditional thermostats or low automation. Instead of costly retrofits or hardware overhauls, viboo adds intelligence (“real-brain”) to existing systems to cut energy use and improve comfort.
How it works / core features
Self-learning predictive control: viboo’s platform learns a building’s thermal behavior from initial measurement data (room temperature sensors + actuator states) over 1–2 weeks, combining physics-based constraints with machine-learning to build a thermal model.
Proactive energy optimization: Using forecasts (weather, occupancy preferences, price signals), viboo computes optimal control inputs (e.g., radiator valve positions) for each zone, periodically adjusting heating/cooling to minimize energy consumption while ensuring comfort.
Plug-and-play via cloud + IoT: Rather than replacing existing heating systems, viboo integrates with common smart thermostats / BMS or cloud-ready building automation devices — making it accessible for retrofits with minimal upfront investment.
Demand-response & variable pricing ready: Because the control is predictive and optimized, the system can adapt to time-varying energy prices or grid demand signals, making buildings more flexible and supporting grid integration or demand-side management.
Performance / impact claims: viboo reports energy savings in the 20–40% range compared with conventional thermostat-based or legacy building control.
Why this matters: For owners of existing buildings — often not undergoing major renovation, viboo offers an effective, low-cost lever to decarbonise and reduce operational energy use, accelerate amortisation of investments, and improve occupant comfort with minimal disruption. Need more inspiration from Viboo? Check out our post highlighting one of their incredibly successful case studies.
Learn more about Viboo’s PropTech Solution.
Lookthrough AG: Portfolio-level carbon accounting, ESG compliance & decarbonization planning
What it solves: For institutional real-estate investors, funds, and large portfolios, tracking emissions (Scope 1, 2 and crucially 3 / embodied/supply-chain), generating decarbonization roadmaps, ensuring compliance with science-based targets and regulatory / reporting frameworks is highly complex, data is fragmented, manual reporting is laborious, and planning is difficult at scale. Lookthrough is a Swiss PropTech Solution providing a unified, AI-based platform to solve that.
How it works / core features
Data aggregation & validation into digital twins: Lookthrough ingests diverse and fragmented data (energy meters, building registers, asset data, spreadsheets, IoT feeds, etc.), identifies gaps, validates and harmonizes data into consistent digital twins at building and portfolio level.
Comprehensive emissions analysis (Scope 1, 2 & 3): The platform calculates direct and indirect emissions, including embodied carbon / supply-chain emissions (Scope 3), allowing a full-lifecycle footprint for buildings / portfolios.
Scenario planning / Pathways to net-zero (SBTi/CRREM aligned): Using built-in models, Lookthrough lets users simulate and compare different retrofit or operational strategies, CAPEX plans, and decarbonization pathways, choosing the most cost-effective route to science-based targets.
Impact tracking & continuous monitoring: Once a path is chosen, Lookthrough offers ongoing tracking of progress, genuine emissions reductions, energy savings, CAPEX vs. OPEX tradeoffs, and outputs audit-ready reports aligning with ESG and reporting frameworks.
Portfolio-scale, high-efficiency workflow: The platform claims it can perform “> 90% of necessary analyses at < 10% of the effort” compared to traditional methods, making decarbonization planning scalable for large, diverse portfolios.
Why this matters: Lookthrough delivers institutional-grade carbon accounting and decarbonisation planning, enabling real-estate investors and managers to handle complex ESG, regulatory, and net-zero reporting requirements, and to transparently track and optimise their carbon footprint across entire portfolios without manual data chaos.
Learn more about Lookthrough’s PropTech Solution.
vyzn: 3D/BIM-based life-cycle & sustainability optimization for construction and renovation projects
What it solves: In construction and renovation projects, especially those aiming for sustainability certifications or low-carbon goals, manually calculating embodied carbon, thermal performance, energy demand, materials impact, and comparing multiple design variants is laborious, error-prone, and often too late in the design phase. vyzn is a Swiss PropTech Solution embedding these analyses early and automatically into BIM workflows.
How it works / core features
Import BIM / 3D models and automatic model preparation: vyzn accepts BIM or 3D models (e.g., IFC format), automatically “cleans and improves” them (via their “Reference Model”) to make them ready for analysis and simulation without manual rework.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) & embodied carbon / grey energy analysis: Using a material/component database (with standard data such as KBOB, EPDs, or custom values) vyzn computes the building’s embodied emissions and energy over its life cycle, enabling early visibility on environmental impact.
Energy efficiency & heating demand simulations: vyzn’s “Energy Efficiency” module allows calculation of heating demand directly from the BIM, following relevant standards (e.g. SIA 380/1 in Switzerland), without separate energy-model setup.
Thermal comfort / heat protection simulations: In its “Heat Protection” app (beta), vyzn runs thermal simulations to evaluate risks like overheating (e.g., summer comfort), allowing architects/planners to optimise the building envelope or shading / orientation early.
Real-time scenario comparison and optimisation: Once data is imported, users can run multiple variants (different materials, energy systems, envelopes, etc.), compare them in real-time for emissions, cost, energy demand, comfort, and choose optimal configurations.
Certifications & compliance support: vyzn’s LCA app is officially recognised (in Switzerland) for certification workflows (e.g., Minergie, SNBS), making it suitable for projects seeking high sustainability certification.
Why this matters: vyzn transforms sustainability and carbon accounting from a late-stage, manual compliance step into an integrated, early, design-phase tool, enabling architects, planners, developers to make informed trade-offs between cost, comfort, energy use and embodied emissions, and to build sustainably from the ground up.
Learn more about Vyzn’s PropTech Solution.
How These 4 Swiss PropTech Solutions Accelerate Net-Zero Across the Built Environment
The real estate and construction sector contributes a large share of global CO₂ emissions. Decarbonizing it requires many kinds of interventions, at the design stage, during renovation, in daily operation, and across entire real estate portfolios.
As you can see these Swiss PropTech Solutions cover an incredible amount of ground in terms of sustainable real estate challenges. From 20–40% less heating energy to Scope 1, 2 & 3 analysis, real progress can be made quickly and efficiently without compromise. Below we’ve sumarised the solution and how they can help you specifically tackel Net-Zero.
- Scandens helps retrofit and renovate existing buildings in a financially and environmentally optimized way.
- viboo improves operational energy efficiency in buildings that remain in use, often without major retrofits.
- Lookthrough gives investors and managers portfolio-scale emissions visibility and a pragmatic path toward net-zero.
- vyzn embeds sustainability and life-cycle thinking into building design and construction, minimizing embodied emissions upfront.
Combined, these tools cover nearly the full lifecycle of a building: design, construction and operation to renovation and portfolio management. It’s truly incredible how much of your building you could tackle with these 4 inspiring Swiss Proptech Solutions that surprisingly offer a comprehensive digital stack to drive decarbonization at scale.
