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Climate strategy & advisory · Building performance · Human experience
Point Zero Studio is an all-expert advisory practice. We bring expert judgment and technical analysis to capital planning, design decisions, and climate mitigation and adaptation strategy. We work with architects, owners, and investors, upstream and downstream of design and construction.
Technical work earns its place by changing what someone does. That order — decision first, analysis second — is what keeps the work useful rather than merely correct.
Before any analysis, establish what the number has to answer, who acts on it, and when. A study that arrives after the decision is a record, not advice.
The lightest analysis that resolves the question, and no lighter. Depth is spent where the decision actually turns on it, not distributed evenly for the appearance of rigour.
Every output carries its assumptions, the vintage of its data, and the one choice that moves the answer most. A number without its basis is not advice.
We believe in creating long lasting value in the built environment. We do so by providing expert guidance on regenerative design, climate adaptation, building performance and human experience. Explore our services to know more.
Analysis and insights at portfolio and capital level.
Design phase analysis and recommendations on building projects.
Trusted partner for clients: continuous portfolio tracking, peer review, incentive sequencing, and advice.
Two lines on what the decision was and what changed because of the work. Replace this with a real project.
Two lines on what the decision was and what changed because of the work. Replace this with a real project.
Two lines on what the decision was and what changed because of the work. Replace this with a real project.
Two lines on what the decision was and what changed because of the work. Replace this with a real project.
One line on the argument it makes.
One line on the argument it makes.
One line on the argument it makes.
Boutique by design. Senior by definition.
Point Zero Studio is led by Shruti Kasarekar, an architect and building scientist who has spent nearly two decades on the technical side of the built environment — first as an energy analyst at Arup, then at Atelier Ten, where she led the US environmental design practice and the San Francisco office.
Her work sits where building physics meets consequence: whole-life carbon, energy and daylight, thermal comfort, and the decarbonisation of buildings that were never designed to be decarbonised. That work has included the SFMOMA expansion, Uber's headquarters, and Adobe's Founders Tower, and it has been argued in front of code officials when the by-the-book reading would have produced a worse building.
She started Point Zero Studio because the analysis was arriving too late to matter. The modelling that decides whether a building performs is usually commissioned after the decisions that determine the answer have already been made. What she offers is the judgment that comes before the model — which question is worth asking, which asset is worth the capital, and what a number actually means for the decision in front of you.
Licensed architect · LEED AP · ASHRAE Building Energy Modeling Professional · MS Building Science, Arizona State University · B.Arch, Pune University · Founder, IBPSA-USA San Francisco Bay Area chapter · IBPSA-USA Outstanding Practice Award, 2018 · ASHRAE Professional Examination Subcommittee, 2009–17