Modernization Is Broken. A New Category Is Here.
Walk into any enterprise facility today—a hospital, logistics hub, or corporate office—and you’ll see it: infrastructure that’s falling behind. HVAC systems nearing failure. Lighting wasting energy. Controls that can’t keep up.
It’s not that companies don’t want to modernize. It’s that the systems meant to help them do it are broken.
For years, infrastructure upgrades have been managed as individual projects. Each required its own capital request. Each needed a new round of approvals. Each moved slowly through legal, procurement, and operations.
And by the time one project was done, dozens more had fallen behind.
“Across U.S. commercial and institutional buildings, deferred maintenance now accounts for over $1 trillion in unmet infrastructure needs—a number that continues to rise as systems age faster than they’re upgraded.”
(Source: APPA, GSA, DOE estimates)
This is the modernization trap—a cycle of deferred upgrades, mounting costs, and stranded infrastructure value.
Why traditional models fall short
The industry has thrown every tool in the toolbox at this problem. Performance contracts. Leases. Energy-as-a-Service. But most of these models can be narrow in scope and sometimes difficult to scale.
They tend to:
- Focus on one asset class (lighting, HVAC, etc.)
- Require complex, restrictive agreements
- Still depend on CapEx or burdensome guarantees
- Deliver inconsistent, difficult-to-measure results
“In fact, 70% of enterprise facility leaders report delays in infrastructure upgrades due to CapEx constraints and limited internal capacity.”
(Source: Verdantix, 2023)
What’s needed isn’t another financing mechanism. It’s not a better project plan. What’s needed is a category shift.
Introducing Infrastructure Monetization
Redaptive created Infrastructure Monetization™ to redefine how modernization happens. It’s not a product, a contract, or a service. It’s a business model that redefines how enterprises invest in infrastructure so they can act on deferred infrastructure with speed, scale, and certainty.
Here’s how it works:
Tailored capital
We remove CapEx as a barrier. Redaptive funds the infrastructure upgrades your portfolio needs—through flexible financing that accelerates decisions and protects your balance sheet.
Turnkey execution
We don’t just advise. We deliver. From site scoping to implementation and long-term performance tracking, Redaptive handles execution across distributed portfolios.
Measurable outcomes
We bring data to business leaders. Our approach provides real-time, portfolio-wide visibility into performance, cost savings, emissions reduction, and ROI.
These three pillars form the foundation of a new category—one that treats modernization not as a cost center, but as a lever for enterprise value and resilient growth.
Portfolio execution: A defining strength
One of the biggest limitations of traditional infrastructure models is that they think in projects. Infrastructure Monetization thinks in portfolios.
Instead of launching isolated initiatives at individual sites, Redaptive enables companies to tackle modernization across their full asset base at once.
This portfolio approach means:
- One set of approvals, not hundreds
- Standardized scopes, contracts, and timelines
- Measurable results rolled up across the business
It doesn’t just save time. It creates real business value.
Case study: Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain, a global leader in storage and information management, faced a massive backlog of infrastructure upgrades. Outdated lighting. Aging HVAC systems. Rising energy costs.
Trying to solve the problem through individual projects would have taken years.
Through Redaptive’s Infrastructure Monetization model, they completed:
- LED retrofits at 311 sites
- HVAC upgrades at 114 locations across four countries
- Projected savings of $101 million
- Avoided 668 million kWh over 10 years
All with no upfront capital, and no operational disruption.
That’s not a project. That’s transformation.
Why now?
The case for Infrastructure Monetization has never been stronger. Enterprises today face a perfect storm:
- Aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs
- New demands from electrification and decarbonization
- Capital constraints and CFO scrutiny
- Talent shortages that make execution harder than ever
Doing nothing is no longer an option. But doing things the old way is too slow and too expensive.
Infrastructure Monetization is the model built for this moment.
A new chapter for modernization
Infrastructure Monetization™ takes the next step. It moves beyond energy to cover the full spectrum of building systems—lighting, HVAC, controls, and more.
It turns modernization into a strategic capability.
It turns infrastructure into an asset.
It turns inertia into enterprise value.
“It isn’t easy to scale lighting and other energy efficiency-related projects across our global portfolio of almost 300 locations. With Redaptive providing the funding, managing the technology deployment, and contractually guaranteeing the business outcomes, we can now quickly deploy these projects and achieve immediate EBITDA impact, significant GHG reduction, and enhanced safety for our employees.” —EVP of Operations, Berry Global
Redaptive’s role
Redaptive is not just creating a new category; we are building it with over $1 billion in infrastructure upgrades deployed, hundreds of millions in CapEx avoided, and thousands of sites modernized.
We partner with:
- Real estate investors modernizing entire portfolios
- Healthcare networks improving performance under tight constraints
- Logistics and manufacturing companies scaling electrification
- Enterprises with distributed facilities and no time to waste
Our results speak for themselves—and the model continues to scale.
Ready to monetize your infrastructure?
Redaptive created Infrastructure Monetization to unlock the value hiding in plain sight.
You know your infrastructure needs attention. The question is no longer if—it’s how.
Ready to move beyond projects and unlock true enterprise value? Let’s talk.
