Kirkgate Tower, Edinburgh — Energy Study for Edinburgh City Council

The Project

Edinburgh City Council needed to understand Kirkgate Tower properly before committing to energy improvement decisions — and that meant numbers, not assumptions. Energy modelling stands or falls on the building data underneath it: heated volumes, envelope areas, and an honest picture of where the existing fabric is losing heat.

What We Did

One mobilisation covered three jobs:

• Matterport capture of the building, producing the navigable 3D record you can explore below — and the measurable dataset behind it.
• Volume and area calculations extracted from the scan data, feeding directly into the energy study. Heated volume is a foundational input for energy modelling, and calculating it from scan data replaces estimation with measurement.
• Thermographic survey of the building fabric, showing where the envelope actually loses heat — so the energy study targets real defects rather than assumed ones.

The point cloud from the capture went to the project architect as design-ready data, so the same site visit that served the energy study also served the design team.

The Deliverables

• Matterport 3D tour and capture data — explore it below
• Point cloud data issued to the architect for modelling
• Measured volumes and areas for the energy study
• Thermographic imagery of the building fabric

Why It Worked

This is the pattern we think more local-authority energy work should follow: one visit, one consistent dataset, serving the energy assessor, the architect, and the asset team simultaneously. Nobody re-measures, nobody works from different numbers.