Behind the Score

Methodology, research, and the problems we're solving.

Methodology

How Tessera actually scores a building

The real sources, weights, and thresholds behind retrofit priority and air quality, and how the results actually distribute.

Urban climate

Why local climate zones need a grid, not a map

Administrative boundaries are the wrong unit for describing urban heat. Here's what happens when you use them anyway, and why the field moved on.

Compliance

TSRS 2 and the data problem hiding inside climate compliance

A new disclosure standard asks for building-level physical risk data most companies have no way to produce.

San Francisco

San Francisco's Mandatory Soft Story Program, mapped to every building

The city's own retrofit ordinance names which buildings are soft-story risks. Here's how that real compliance list becomes a per-building score.

San Francisco

What USGS's Hayward Fault M7.0 scenario means for San Francisco buildings

A real modelled rupture, real intensity zones, and a real scaling mistake we found and fixed while turning it into a score.

San Francisco

Why San Francisco gets measured building heights, not guesses

Most of our pilot city has to estimate height from floor counts. San Francisco publishes a real LIDAR measurement for every building instead.