Compliance hub

Compliance that runs on real data.
Not quarterly audits.

EPBD 2026 turned building automation into a legal requirement. BREEAM, LEED and Nordic Swan are the voluntary ratings on top. Explore reads your existing sensors continuously and produces the evidence each one asks for.

EPBD 2026 · BACS mandate

EPBD 2026 requires automated controls. Most buildings only half-comply.

Cross 290 kW of heating, cooling or ventilation plant and a Building Automation and Control System is now mandatory, not optional.

In scope

Over 290 kW

Rated output of the heating, A/C or ventilation plant. Not floor area or peak demand.

Deadline

29 May 2026

Passed. National law now, not a future directive. In-scope buildings without a compliant BACS are already overdue.

Next step

70 kW in 2029

From 31 December 2029 the threshold drops to 70 kW and pulls in far more of the stock.

What a compliant BACS must do

Four functions. Explore covers each one.

Monitor, log and analyse energy use

Explore logs every meter and sensor continuously. The log is your evidence.

Benchmark efficiency and detect losses

Most portfolios miss this

Explore baselines each system and flags efficiency drift. Capturing data alone doesn't meet this clause.

Detect faults and flag them to an operator

Faults reach a named operator in a ranked queue, with the context to act.

Communicate across systems and vendors

Explore reads BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA and the rest. One layer over a mixed-vendor estate.

Where most buildings fall short

A BMS controls the building. It rarely proves it.

Your BMS runs schedules and holds setpoints. It stays weak on continuous logging, loss detection and fault flags an operator can trust. That missing half is the half EPBD asks for, and Explore reads it straight off the BMS you already run.

How Explore reads your BMS

See your building against the 290 kW requirement.

Request a demo Take the 2-minute Building Intelligence Score

Bring your building. We'll map your live BACS coverage against the 290 kW line, on a sample of your data.

Not ready for a demo? Read the full EPBD 2026 explainer

Voluntary certifications

BREEAM, LEED and Nordic Swan.

Voluntary ratings, not law. Explore collects the evidence from the same sensors and keeps it current.

All frameworks · one foundation

Same engine. Same sensors. Different evidence.

A modern building is in three frameworks at once. Explore reads the sensors once and produces the evidence each framework expects, in its own vocabulary.

Bring your certification. We'll show you the live coverage.

20-minute demo against a sample of your data.

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Compliance that runs on real data.Not quarterly audits.