Urban Data Factoryby Urbio

Urban data you can trust.

Buildings, energy, climate, financial data and more. For every European city — all sources merged into one digital twin you can explore, enrich and trust.

Every building in Europe  ·  100% coverage  ·  100% traceable sources  ·  No GIS skills required  · Live in your browser
the problem

No single source is ever complete.

National registries are broad but outdated. Energy certificates are rich but cover a fraction of buildings. Your own field data is reliable but not exhaustive. Teams burn enormous time reconciling them by hand — in spreadsheets and QGIS — before any real analysis begins.

up to 50%
of project time goes to collecting, cross-checking and arbitrating between conflicting data sources — before the analysis begins.

Hundreds of sources, no silver bullet

National registries, energy certificates, local consumption records, your internal Excel files, field surveys, CRM exports — each has its own gaps, formats and contradictions.

OpenStreetMap · Census · Meter data · BDNB · GWR · ALKIS · DPE · EPC · Consumption data · Your spreadsheets · Field surveys · Cadasters · Sonnendach · Google Maps · Eurostat · IEA · Certificates · Norms · Studies · VESE · Tabula · VDI · BMWi · CRM exports · ...
why it's different

We don't just sell data. We make all sources work together.

The best dataset never comes from one source — it's the right combination of many, curated by us and by you. That's what turns scattered data into a digital twin you can rely on, with three things no static dataset gives you.

i.

Your priority ranking

You set the order: which source to use in priority, which act as a safety net when the preferred one is missing. Every building gets the best available value — and coverage is 100%, guaranteed.

ii.

Full traceability

Every value on the map shows where it came from. You always know whether a number is measured, modelled or your own — no black boxes, defensible in any context.

iii.

A living twin

Spot an error? Fix it on the map. New survey? Upload your Excel. The twin improves continuously inside one shared, collaborative reference — no mass re-imports, no version chaos. A single point of truth.

see it

Understand your territory with data.

The same twin, viewed through different lenses — live and interactive in your browser. Click any building to see its values and the exact source behind each one.

Paris, France buildings · energy · systems Sample render
Space heating demand
kWh/yr per building
lowhigh
source: measured + modelled
+
— 1 km
Space heating demandenergy
Year of construction
Construction yearbuildings
Heating systems
Heat pump
Gas boiler
Oil boiler
District heat
Heating systemssystems
Brussels, Belgium buildings · height · type Sample render
Heat demand
kWh/yr per building
lowhigh
source: modelled
+
— 2 km
Heat demandenergy
Building height
Building heightbuildings
Building type
Residential
Commercial
Public
Other
Building typebuildings
the proof

Open data gets you close. Not close enough.

A customer compared heat-demand estimates for a municipality of ~1,000 buildings against their gas supplier's measured data. The default open-data tool they were using came in 40% too low. By cleaning, cross-checking and combining sources, Urbio landed within 7% of reality — in minutes, not days.

Annual heat demand · municipality of ~1,000 buildings
vs. the gas supplier's measured data
Gas supplier measured — ground truth12,964 MWh
Urbio cleaned, cross-checked, combined12,079 MWh −7%
Default open-data tool single, uncleaned source7,771 MWh −40%

What makes the difference

We clean and plausibilise raw data, cross-check every value against multiple independent sources, apply advanced energy models and recent norms, then let you layer your own measured data on top. The result is accuracy that stands up to professional scrutiny.

93%
heat demand accuracy
vs. measured
98%
energy reference area
vs. mandated study
minutes
to centralise dozens
of sources, not days
Accuracy varies by building type and segment — where it matters most, you can always import your own data.
the product

From scattered sources to one twin — in minutes.

No 30 GB downloads, no GIS gymnastics. Pick an area, drag-and-drop your own data, and work with it live — the data factory does the heavy lifting while you keep control of the rules.

01

Pick your area

Any municipality or region in Europe. The twin comes pre-loaded with curated default sources.

02

Add & rank your sources

Upload Excel or shapefiles and set your priority cascade. Everything merges building by building, fully traceable.

03

Explore, dashboard, export

Work live in the browser, summarise with dashboards, share with your team, export or connect via API.

Plug-and-play in your browser Bring your own data Maps & dashboards out of the box Collaborative single source of truth API access
what's in the data

Attributes that support your workflows.

From geometry to energy, cost and carbon — we add sources continuously. Every attribute is traceable to its origin, and any value can be overridden with your own data.

— 01

Buildings

  • Footprint geometry
  • Height & floors
  • Year of construction
  • Type & use
  • Floor area
  • Address
  • and more
— 02

Streets & networks

  • Street geometry & type
  • Street surface material
  • Length
  • Pipes & networks
  • Bridges & structures
  • and more
— 03

Energy

  • Heating, hot water & cooling demand
  • Electricity (appliances)
  • Heating system type & DH connections
  • PV systems, roof & solar potential
  • Temporal profiles & peak power
  • and more
— 04

Cost & carbon

  • Energy prices by carrier
  • Annual energy costs
  • Excavation / construction costs
  • GHG emissions & primary energy
  • and more
— 05

Climate

  • Heating & cooling degree days
  • Climate zones
  • Solar irradiance
  • and more
— YOURS

Your own data

  • Custom criteria
  • Measured consumption
  • Survey & CRM fields
  • Manual edits, fully traced
  • merged in, on top
Missing a layer you need? We enrich our twins every week — and can add sources for your project on request. Tell us what you need →
who it's for

For teams that need data they can trust.

Anywhere a decision depends on reliable building, energy and urban data — without a GIS team to prepare it.

[01]
Cities & municipalitiesLocal energy, climate and planning teams building the evidence base for their decisions.
[02]
Public sector & agenciesRegional and national energy, housing and environment bodies supporting mandates.
[03]
Real estate & portfolio ownersStock screening, valuation, ESG and energy-performance reporting across a portfolio.
[04]
Insurance & climate riskBuilding-level exposure and characteristics for underwriting and risk models.
[05]
Solar installers & developersRoof potential, PV detection and demand context to prospect and size projects.
[06]
Heat-pump & HVAC vendorsFind suitable buildings and size the local electrification market.
[07]
Retrofit & renovation platformsTarget and prioritise renovation at scale, with cost and carbon context.
[08]
Grid & infrastructure plannersEV charging, district energy and network rollout grounded in real building data.
[09]
Data & software teamsEmbed trusted, harmonised building data in your own product via API.
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Something else? We want to hear it.The data is useful well beyond energy. Tell us what you're working on — we'll tell you if it fits, and what it costs.
pricing

Buy the data once, or work in it every day.

Take a one-off data pack to use as you wish, or subscribe to the platform to explore, enrich and collaborate on a web-based digital twin. Add custom services to go further.

⊞ One-off delivery
Data Pack
The curated, merged data — delivered as files (CSV, GPKG, GeoJSON). For teams with their own GIS or BI stack.
  • S1 municipality€490
  • M1 region or metro€2,490
  • L1 country or large region€9,900
↓ Files yours to keep
↺ Annual refresh: ~30% of pack price
● Project-based
Custom services
When you need us to do the heavy lifting: bespoke data work, dashboards, integrations or onboarding.
  • Custom training & onboarding
    Get your team productive fast
    from €900
  • Custom data services
    Processing, merging, custom layers
    from €1,900
  • Custom dashboard
    Built around your KPIs
    from €3,900
  • CRM / API integration
    Connect the twin to your systems
    on request
⏱ Quoted per project

Not sure yet? Try a free sample.

Create a free account and explore a ready-made sample area of ~2,000 buildings directly in the app. See the full breadth of attributes and try the platform's advanced filtering and visualization features — then upgrade to get the same data and tools for the territory of your choice.

Try a free sample Free account · Demo data

Built by the team behind Urbio.

The same curated data powers Urbio's energy-planning platform, trusted by leaders of the European energy transition to turn messy data into decisions.

↗ powered by Urbio
200+
Customers across Europe
100%
Building coverage
100%
Traceable sources
try a free sample

Tell us what you're trying to solve.

We'll set up your free sample account within one business day, with an honest read on whether our data fits your use case — and a price if it does.

We'll set up a free account with demo data so you can explore the app. No card, no automatic sales calls.