Take any office building. The square metres are in the brochure. So is the year of construction. The energy label is in a public register. The number of parking spaces, the distance to the station, the ceiling height: all known.
But how well can you use the internet there? Almost nobody knows.
It has always fallen through the cracks
The digital infrastructure of a building does not really belong to anyone. The owner thinks in terms of bricks and building services. The tenant sets up their own IT. The installer lays cables to specification. The provider delivers a connection up to the meter cupboard. And the agent writes "fibre available" in the brochure, because that is true.
None of them looks at the whole picture: from the cable in the street to the desk on the fourth floor.
It also mattered less
Twenty years ago, internet in the office was a nice extra. Now it is the foundation. Almost everything runs in the cloud. A large share of meetings happen on a screen. Access passes, climate control and cameras are connected to the network. And AI applications demand more and more capacity.
A building that cannot keep up digitally is simply unusable for many organisations. But you only find out once you have moved in.
"That will be fine"
The result is a conversation everyone in real estate recognises. A tenant asks about the internet. The landlord says it will be fine. Nobody is lying, but nobody knows exactly. After the move, the WiFi in the corner of the floor turns out not to work, and the connection drops when everyone is on a video call at once.
Then the arguments start. Who has to fix this? Who pays for it? Should the landlord have known? Should the tenant have asked?
What a label changes
The IT-Label actually does something very simple: it records what is in place, and how it performs. Independently measured, with one code that everyone understands.
That sounds small, but it changes the conversation. The tenant knows in advance what is in place. The landlord can show what has been invested. And the IT Demarcation List records in black and white who does what.
A low label is not a problem. A shell building with IT5 can be perfect for the right tenant. The problem was never that buildings fall short digitally. The problem was that nobody knew.
How we work
That is why we do what we do. We walk through a building from the meter cupboard to the roof, we measure where people work, and we say honestly what we see.
Curious how your building performs? Start with the self-scan.