Backpack is a comprehensive solution designed to digitize the built world. By collecting data from documents, integrations, surveys, and annual site visits, Backpack aggregates and centralizes building information, ranging from property characteristics, leasing data, utilities, equipment, real-time data, capital plans, and more. This digital foundation powers built-in tools like automated Energy Star scoring and compliance tracking, while providing the insights needed to effectively run decarbonization programs, prioritize capital projects, lower insurance premiums, and enable Backpack’s Marketplace of products and services to offer cash-back rewards.
Backpack was born out of an acquisition of Bractlet in 2021, a software company that developed the industry’s most advanced energy analytics and modeling technology. Motivated by the philosophy that accurate data is the key for driving change, their team is focused on arming the built world with comprehensive, verified, and accessible property data – transitioning the industry away from the days when data sits siloed onsite, scattered across various spreadsheets, leaving you with more questions than answers.
With digitized and up-to-date information, Backpack is empowering stakeholders to leverage robust information to implement sustainability initiatives, provide intelligence for better planning, effectively track results, and tap into opportunities that increase profit.
Rosy Khalife, James Dice, and Brad Bonavida (Nexus Labs) kicked off NexusCon 2025 by explaining why the industry keeps cycling through disconnected priorities—BAS, energy, space utilization, health, decarb, cybersecurity—and why that fragmentation is now the real blocker to progress.
This NexusCon 2025 presentation dives into how QuadReal is digitally enabling a growing multifamily portfolio by centralizing building operations and integrating tenant-facing technologies.
This NexusCon 2025 presentation brings together Joseph Allen, Director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, and McClure Kelly, Senior Managing Director at Beacon Capital. They walk through how wildfire smoke became an indoor health problem—and why buildings, not people, are the first line of defense.
JJ Baird, VP at Airthings, walks through how leading organizations are using indoor environmental quality (IEQ) data to actually improve occupant health—without defaulting to “more ventilation” or over-relying on the BMS.
Head over to Nexus Connect and see what’s new in the community. Don’t forget to check out the latest member-only events.
Go to Nexus ConnectJoin Nexus Pro and get full access including invite-only member gatherings, access to the community chatroom Nexus Connect, networking opportunities, and deep dive essays.
Sign Up
Nexus Labs exists to move the smart buildings industry forward, without the fluff.
On Wednesday, we send out the renowned (and free) Nexus Newsletter.
