Comparing three buildings without forcing identical sensors

Portfolio reporting works when definitions align—even if each property collects evidence differently.

Street view of multiple mid-rise buildings

Asset managers often ask for one occupancy number per building. Reality is messier: one tower has turnstile counts, another has camera estimates, a third only has meeting-room bookings and manual lobby notes. Forcing a single sensor type is expensive; aligning definitions is usually enough.

We start with a definition workshop: what counts as occupied, which hours form the core day, and how visitors are treated. Only then do we build side-by-side profiles. Readers see confidence notes where evidence is thinner.

Prioritization follows from that honesty. A building with strong midweek emptiness across multiple sources rises to the top of the action list. A building with noisy data gets a recommendation to improve sampling before major space decisions.

That approach keeps portfolio packs useful in investment meetings without pretending every asset was measured the same way.

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