This Solutions Spotlight article was contributed by Redaptive Inc.
Step into almost any business facility today, whether a hospital, logistics hub, or office complex, and the signs are clear: energy infrastructure is falling behind. HVAC systems are nearing failure, old lighting is wasting energy, and controls are stuck in another era.
Most organizations recognize the need to modernize this critical building infrastructure, but the mechanisms they’ve used to do so are outdated.
For years, upgrades have been managed as isolated projects, each one requiring its own capital request, approval cycle, and vendor engagement. By the time one project wraps up, dozens more are already overdue.
“Across U.S. commercial and institutional buildings, deferred maintenance now accounts for over $1 trillion in unmet infrastructure needs—a number that continues to rise as systems age faster than they’re upgraded.”(Source: APPA, GSA, DOE estimates)
This is the modernization trap: a pattern of deferred upgrades, rising costs, and stranded value.
The industry has tested nearly every model to solve this modernization trap, including contracts, leases, and Energy-as-a-Service. Yet these tools are sometimes narrow in scope and often challenging to scale.
Traditional models tend to:
“In fact, 70% of enterprise facility leaders report delays in infrastructure upgrades due to CapEx constraints and limited internal capacity.”
(Source: Verdantix, 2023)
The challenge isn’t a lack of options; it’s that no existing model treats modernization as a business problem. We need a solution that challenges the status quo and goes beyond another contract or financing structure. We need a full-scale category shift.
Redaptive’s Infrastructure Monetization™ model reimagines how organizations invest in and execute upgrades. It’s a business model designed to turn deferred infrastructure into enterprise value, enabling scalability for energy and equipment upgrades without the burden of upfront capital.
Here’s how it works:
Together, these pillars create a scalable approach to modernization, treating infrastructure as a strategic growth lever.
Traditional models think in terms of projects. Infrastructure Monetization operates at the portfolio level.
With a portfolio-level approach, organizations can modernize infrastructure across hundreds of sites and achieve measurable impact faster than on a project-by-project basis.
This approach ensures:
The result: modernized facilities and faster value creation.
A real-world example: Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain, a global information management leader, faced a massive backlog of aging systems and rising energy costs. Addressing these issues site by site would have taken years.
Through Redaptive’s Infrastructure Monetization model, the company achieved:
All of this was done without upfront capital or operational disruption.
That’s not just modernization. It’s a company-wide transformation.
Enterprises face unprecedented challenges: aging infrastructure, capital constraints, sustainability demands, and workforce shortages.
Doing nothing is no longer sustainable. But traditional models are too slow to meet the moment.
Infrastructure Monetization provides the speed, scale, and financial flexibility needed to modernize today’s enterprise portfolios.
Redaptive’s Infrastructure Monetization model extends beyond energy into the full spectrum of building systems, including lighting, HVAC, controls, and more.
It transforms modernization from a project-by-project burden into a repeatable, data-driven capability.
It turns infrastructure into a strategic asset, and it turns inertia into measurable enterprise value.
“With Redaptive providing funding, managing deployment, and guaranteeing business outcomes, we can scale projects across our global portfolio and see immediate EBITDA impact and GHG reduction.”
—EVP of Operations, Berry Global
With more than $1 billion in deployed upgrades and thousands of modernized sites, we’re building the category we created, helping enterprises across healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and real estate monetize the full potential of their infrastructure.
Ready to move beyond projects and unlock the value hiding in plain sight?
We can help you modernize your facilities with speed, scale, and certainty.
