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Healthcare properties under control: reducing costs and managing risk
Metabuild provides operators, investors and developers with a robust data foundation — enabling lower costs, defensible retrofit strategies and healthcare properties that remain ESG-compliant and attractive over the long term.
Challenge: Rising cost pressure and complex requirements
Healthcare properties are among the most energy-intensive building types. Hospitals, clinics and care facilities operate around the clock, while rehabilitation centres and medical offices place increasingly complex demands on energy systems, ventilation and indoor comfort. Operators face rising operating costs and growing retrofit requirements. Investors are exposed to ESG and stranding risks, and developers must strike the right balance between cost, sustainability and quality from the earliest project stages.
Our approach: Simulation-based clarity for confident decisions
Metabuild addresses these questions using high-resolution simulations and robust cost analysis. We compare different retrofit pathways, system concepts and energy sources side by side. Typical questions include:
- What savings can realistically be achieved with modern building systems in 24/7 operation?
- How do PV systems, heat pumps or hybrid solutions impact lifecycle costs?
- Which investments are required to meet CO₂ targets — and what are the costs of inaction?
- Which components are nearing end of life — and which energy upgrades deliver the highest return?
Retrofit roadmaps for operators
In existing buildings, economic performance is largely determined by the right sequence of measures. Metabuild develops AI-supported retrofit roadmaps that account for remaining component lifetimes and time investments to avoid redundant work. The result is lower total cost and a clear, step-by-step strategy for modernising healthcare properties.
Indoor comfort and health
Healthcare properties carry a particular responsibility: comfort and wellbeing directly influence recovery outcomes and staff working conditions. Metabuild evaluates indoor air quality, thermal comfort and daylight using high-resolution simulations — including the effects of shading, thermal mass and solar gains. Measures are therefore assessed not only by cost and CO₂ impact, but also by their effect on health and productivity.
Optimisation and second opinion for developers
The greatest leverage lies in the early design stages of new healthcare developments. Metabuild simulates thousands of variants — covering building form, building systems and energy supply — to determine whether a concept is close to its optimum. Where required, we act as a neutral second opinion for owners, providing a clear assessment: Is the design economically viable and future-proof? Or can alternative approaches reduce costs while improving quality?
ESG and stranding risk assessment
Healthcare properties are capital-intensive assets, and financiers increasingly scrutinise ESG compliance and decarbonisation pathways. Metabuild goes beyond the current state, simulating which measures prevent stranding risk and what costs are associated with different scenarios. This creates transparency for investors and owners — a clear advantage in financing, valuation and risk management.
Scientifically grounded, proven in practice
Our methodology is built on more than eight years of project experience and has been developed and validated through multiple European research initiatives. All variants are simulated using the internationally recognised calculation engine EnergyPlus and complemented by detailed quantity- and cost-based modelling. For formal compliance, we apply recognised calculation frameworks. The result is a decision basis that convinces operators, investors and developers alike.
Your advantage: clarity under cost pressure and complex requirements
With Metabuild, you receive no generic reports, but simulation-based, decision-grade insights. This translates into lower capital and operating costs, long-term retrofit planning certainty, ESG compliance — and better conditions for patients, staff and investors.
See how Metabuild helps manage cost, risk and performance in healthcare properties.
Retrofit roadmaps
Retrofit decisions impact millions. Metabuild pinpoints the right measures to cut costs and de-risk investments.
Retrofit roadmaps
Retrofit decisions impact millions. Metabuild pinpoints the right measures to cut costs and de-risk investments.
New building optimisation
Generic data leads to expensive new buildings. Metabuild uses real simulations to cut costs, de-risk decisions and reduce CO₂.
Start protecting value and cost efficiency in your healthcare properties.
Our experts provide clear data and actionable strategies for investments, operating costs and retrofits — ensuring hospitals, care facilities and clinics remain economically viable, ESG-compliant and user-focused over the long term.
„We always want the best solution for our customers and tenants. And Metabuild’s analyses are fundamental to this.“
Dr. Lis Hannemann-Strenger, CEO
Strenger Gruppe
„We have already optimised over 170,000 m² of GFA with Metabuild. The platform is an integral part of our processes.”
Robert Schöps, Head of Development
KauriCAB
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