Building Types

Built for the buildings that actually pay demand charges.

Celaxis targets the building types where HVAC overcycling and peak demand charges are the highest leverage energy cost reduction opportunity.

Typical savings by building type
Office buildings 28–38%
Retail centers 22–32%
Healthcare admin wings varies by zone scope

Multi-zone HVAC, predictable occupancy patterns, high peak demand exposure.

Office buildings are Celaxis's primary target. The patterns are consistent: Monday morning warm-up after weekend setback creates a peak demand spike in the worst possible tariff window. Friday afternoon early-empty creates a pre-cooling opportunity the BMS schedule always misses. Multi-tenant occupancy variability means zone-by-zone optimization is significantly more effective than building-wide setpoint adjustment.

Primary savings mechanism: peak demand avoidance via 2–4 hour pre-cooling ahead of tariff peak windows. Secondary: occupancy-responsive setback in low-utilization zones during partial-occupancy periods.

28–38%
typical energy cost reduction
20k–500k
sq ft range
Office case studies
Weekly optimization patterns — office building
Monday 5:30am Pre-warm before 8am occupancy
Weekday 1:30pm Pre-cool before 4pm peak
Friday 2pm Early setback (low occupancy signal)
Weekend Minimal setback + pre-warm Sunday pm

High lighting load, variable occupancy, refrigeration adjacency accounted for.

Retail centers have a different energy profile than offices: higher lighting load relative to HVAC, occupancy peaks concentrated on weekends and holiday periods rather than predictable weekday patterns. Refrigerated aisle adjacency creates thermal zones that behave differently — Celaxis's model accounts for refrigeration heat rejection when calculating HVAC thermal inertia in adjacent zones.

Celaxis focuses HVAC optimization on non-refrigeration zones and lighting dimming in low-traffic hours. The typical range reflects slightly lower HVAC savings potential relative to pure-office buildings, offset by meaningful lighting load reduction.

22–32%
typical energy cost reduction
15k–200k
sq ft range
Retail case studies
Retail optimization scope
HVAC zones (non-refrigerated) Full optimization
Lighting dimming (Portfolio+) Off-peak hours
Refrigeration-adjacent HVAC Conservative adjustments only
Refrigeration systems Not in scope

Administrative wings and medical office buildings — not clinical spaces.

Scope boundary — please read before evaluating

Celaxis is appropriate for administrative wings, medical office buildings, and outpatient clinics. It is NOT appropriate for clinical spaces with temperature-regulated requirements — operating rooms, pharmacies, sterile processing, labs, or any space where temperature control is a regulatory or patient-safety requirement. If you manage administrative floor plans within a larger healthcare campus, those zones may be in scope. Contact us to discuss.

Within appropriate scope, healthcare administrative buildings typically suffer from fixed HVAC schedules that ignore holiday periods and the early-checkout patterns common in medical office settings. A clinic that closes at 3pm on Fridays is still heating/cooling at full schedule until 5pm — a straightforward optimization Celaxis handles automatically.

Discuss your building scope
Healthcare scope evaluation
Administrative offices In scope
Medical office buildings In scope
Outpatient clinic (non-procedure) In scope
Operating rooms Not in scope
Pharmacy / sterile processing Not in scope

Not sure if your building is a fit?

Tell us your BMS brand, conditioned square footage, and utility provider — we'll give you an honest assessment in 24 hours. We're not the right tool for every building, and we'd rather tell you that upfront than after you've spent time on a pilot.