NorthQ
About NorthQ

All buildings have problems.
We find them, document them and fix them.

There is a digital and a physical side of Real Estate. The NorthQ team lives in both.

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The vision

Maximise building efficiency in the global Real Estate industry, contributing to a truly sustainable future.

The mission

Enable all building stakeholders to take data-driven actions and achieve higher profits through energy savings and operational optimisation.

Where we are
Copenhagen
Home base
Nordics
Now expanding
Wherever your portfolio takes us
Next
THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT

Six people.
One team.

In-house across every discipline - engineers, energy specialists, cloud architects, building operators. No agencies. No handoffs. The team that shows up in the first meeting is the team that stays with your buildings.

Christian Ulrik von Scholten
CEO & Energy Consultant
Sven Kartchinov
Head of Business Operations & Growth
Gintaras Timbaras
System Data Engineer & Energy Consultant
Daniel Zatorski
Cloud Engineer & Energy Consultant
Clement Ravet
Data Analyst & Energy Consultant
Dima Bors
R&D & Hardware Integration
What actually makes us different

Two worlds.
One team.

Most companies in our space pick one. PropTech firms came from software and learned to nod along when buildings spoke. Real Estate consultancies came from the property world and outsourced anything digital to whoever showed up with a dashboard. Both pick one side. We refused.

The digital world

  • Data Collection - Sensors. Gateways. Meters.
  • Distribution accounting. Tenant apps. From meter to tenant invoice.
  • Anomaly detection, algorithms, predictive insights, energy optimization.
  • Cloud architecture. Backend systems. APIs.
  • CTS/BMS, WMBus, Modbus, M-Bus - we speak the same language as the building.

We built the hardware, the gateways, the cloud, the backend. The digital layer is ours - in-house from the early days, still the foundation today.

The physical world

  • The actual building. HVAC, light, PV/Solar, pipes, envelope.
  • Tenants, complaints, leakages, indoor climate.
  • Operations of energy systems. Control capabilities and verified outcomes.
  • Practical asset management. OPEX, NOI, CAPEX, IRR, yields, hold periods.
  • Transactions, ESG reporting, regulations and compliance.

We learned the building. The vocabulary, the operations, the financial life, the regulatory pressure. Year by year, until the language was ours too.

Because we live in both - the digital and the physical world of Real Estate - three things happen that do not happen anywhere else:

01

The findings come with the numbers.

Generic consultancies write findings. We write findings backed by ROI math - investment required, returns, payback, recommended price adjustment. The math works because we have the data underneath. Most consultancies do not.

02

The same people do the whole job.

Diligence, baseline, action plan, implementation, ongoing operations - same team, end-to-end. No handoffs between specialist groups. No project manager translating between people who never spoke to each other.

03

We can verify what we claim.

When we say a building uses less energy after we are involved, we can show it - in the same data stream we have been collecting all along. Tickets close on data, not on technician word. Optimization is measured, not asserted.

How we got here

NorthQ ApS was founded in 2007 - at the time, focused on smart tech and home solutions. The bet was simple and contrarian: while the rest of the market built dashboards on top of public data, NorthQ built hardware. The systems that collect granular, building-level data with the resolution and reliability that public datasets cannot match.

The smart building concept followed within a few years - more than a decade refining what data matters, what doesn't, and what services become possible when the data layer is genuinely good. Eighteen years across hardware engineering, data science, energy systems, building operations, and the legal frameworks that turn data into value for owners and tenants.

In 2024, NorthQ Energy Solutions ApS was incorporated as the legal entity for the consultancy and operations work the team does today. The legal entity is new. The DNA is not - every year that came before is in the work.

Sometimes the right innovation needs the right moment. The moment is now.

The problem under everything

3 out of 4 European buildings waste energy.

That is roughly 220 million buildings.
€162 billion in energy bills, going nowhere, every year.

The regulatory and market framework that fixes this is already in force
BREEAM
Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method The dominant EU building sustainability certification. Tenants and investors increasingly require Very Good or Excellent ratings.
EU Taxonomy
EU Taxonomy Regulation The classification framework for what counts as a sustainable Real Estate investment. Investors are already pricing it.
SRI
Smart Readiness Indicator A voluntary EU rating for how smart a building's systems actually are. Being adopted across member states.
CRREM
Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor The stranded-asset benchmark. Portfolios are graded against decarbonization pathways to 2050. Falling behind means write-downs.
EED
Energy Efficiency Directive Includes the 2027 remotely-readable meter rule and the broader EU energy efficiency targets.

Five different acronyms, one direction of travel. Our consultancy maps your portfolio against all of them.

If anything on this page made you curious

Talk to us about your assets.

One building or a hundred. The first is on us. Tell us where you are, what you are trying to do, and what the current data picture looks like - we will take it from there.

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