Built on real work
We bring experience from building performance and environmental practice into each research question.
ZEST / Built environment intelligence
The built world,
made measurable.
We connect building expertise, data, and applied research to help teams understand what exists and improve what comes next.
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01 / About ZEST
Building knowledge.
Engineering insight.
Our work starts with real buildings and the decisions people make around them.
Connected by evidence
Spatial, energy, material, and field data become useful inputs for better analysis.
Designed to advance
We develop methods and tools that connect technical inquiry with practical application.
02 / Capabilities
What we connect.
Three connected areas help us move from observations to decisions.
Building performance
Understand how buildings use energy and respond to their environment.
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Materials & carbon data
Bring material and environmental information into clearer engineering workflows.
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Spatial intelligence
Turn observations of physical spaces into usable digital representations.
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Research grounded
in the built world.
We investigate how digital methods can support the people who design, assess, and operate buildings.
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View R&D (Korean) ↗Research areas, selected projects, and the methods behind them.
Intelligent building workflows
Exploring AI-assisted methods that organize building data and support engineering decisions.
Research in progressApplied industry research
Collaborative research connecting technical development with real industry needs.
Collaboration in progress04 / How we work
From observation
to application.
See how research questions connect back to measurable conditions in real places.
SPATIAL DATA / ENGINEERING
Capture. Understand. Improve.
Building scans, measurements, and analysis can make the existing environment easier to understand and improve.
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Let’s build the next
research question.
We welcome conversations with research groups and industry teams working on better ways to understand and improve buildings.