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The 2025 refurbishment made the towers smarter and more efficient.
Highlight Towers promote LEED Gold, WiredScore Platinum, AI-supported energy optimisation, smart building automation and a new campus concept.
Solar Studio · MunichHighlight Towers.
Highlight Towers.
You made the building smart. Now make the envelope productive.
Highlight Towers were comprehensively modernised in 2025 and now market LEED Gold, WiredScore Platinum, AI-assisted energy optimisation and smart building automation. Sydsol is a logical phase-two move: after optimising what the building consumes, make the façade generate.
Read the building
Future-ready should be visible from the outside.
Highlight Towers are being repositioned around technology, connectivity and sustainability. A productive façade makes that future-ready promise visible from the outside — turning the envelope itself into part of the workplace proposition.
Annual solar yieldHighlight Towers · Munich
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At a glance
What the building envelope could deliver
Qualified roof and façade surfaces are screened against the same energy and commercial assumptions used throughout this case study.
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Annual generation
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Annual energy value
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Modelled payback
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Grid-equivalent CO₂
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Installed solar area
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Project LCOE
Grid-equivalent CO₂ is modelled using the local grid factor. Actual market-based emissions impact depends on the building’s electricity procurement and renewable-energy contracts.
Energy & economics
Monthly electricity & LCOE
See how electricity generation and equivalent energy cost change through the year as solar resource, orientation and shading shift.
Monthly electricity & LCOE
Generation through the day
Southeast starts the day; west-facing surfaces carry it later.
The southeast façade is the largest modelled contributor. Southwest and northwest then add substantial later-day output, giving the building a broader profile than a single roof surface.
Solar generation profile · month by month
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Where the electricity comes from
Southeast dominates, with southwest and northwest adding meaningful secondary generation. The model supports a selective multi-façade strategy rather than blanket coverage.
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Future-ready, next step
Digital intelligence optimised the building. Now let the envelope generate.
Highlight Towers are being repositioned around technology, connectivity and sustainability. A productive façade makes that future-ready promise visible from the outside — turning the envelope itself into part of the workplace proposition.
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Next standard
Make “future-ready” visible on the envelope.
A productive façade adds a physical clean-energy technology to a building whose current repositioning is already based on digital and environmental performance.
Repositioning
The investment cycle is happening now.
The 2025 refurbishment created the platform for the next enhancement: a façade that contributes renewable electricity as well as architectural identity.
Leasing differentiation
Give technology tenants a building that looks as innovative as it operates.
A visible generation layer strengthens the “innovation, design and foresight” positioning the property already uses in the market.
Solar Studio result
Southeast leads; southwest and northwest extend the day.
Southeast is the strongest modelled surface, while southwest and northwest add meaningful later-hour generation. The roof is secondary.
Public context sourcesHighlight Towers — future-ready offices ↗Highlight Towers — LEED Gold & WiredScore Platinum recertification ↗
External references describe public building, owner and occupier context. Inclusion does not imply endorsement of Sydsol or participation in this study.
The Solar Studio advantage
We model the building.
We model the building.
Then we follow the sun.
Solar Studio reveals the energy potential hidden across an entire building envelope — not just the roof. It combines advanced 3D solar simulation with the commercial metrics asset owners need to make a decision.
Advanced 3D building model
We recreate the building and its urban surroundings so the analysis reflects the real geometry of the façade, roof and neighbouring skyline.
Sunlight, tracked all year
Advanced ray-tracing follows sunlight through every hour of the day and every season of the year, revealing how solar access changes across the envelope.
A true shading profile
Nearby towers, setbacks and the building itself are captured in a detailed shading profile, separating consistently productive surfaces from those that spend too much time in shadow.
From solar potential to business case
We translate the solar opportunity into generation, energy savings, carbon reduction and payback — turning a complex façade into a clear investment picture.
Beyond rooftop solar
See where the building can generate, when that energy arrives, and which surfaces create the strongest commercial value.
Case study settings
The assumptions behind this view
These inputs define the Highlight Towers case study and can be changed for a building-specific assessment.
Assumptions & inputsOpen to review the model settings
Indicative feasibility assessment. Results support early-stage decision making and should be followed by site, structural, electrical and façade-engineering review before project development.
Explore a Sydsol pilot for Highlight Towers.
We can turn this model into a site-specific pilot scope — target surfaces, expected generation, integration pathway and indicative economics.