A BIM model
IFC ingestion builds the canonical envelope directly — surfaces, orientations and storeys from your architecture, with georeferencing handled.
Product
One workflow from model to auditable report
SolaMaxa is one platform, not a bundle of tools. A canonical building model carries every decision forward — so the geometry you screen at feasibility is the same geometry the procurement package and the report refer to. Nothing is re-keyed, and every number stays contestable.
The spine
Discover → Analyse → Design → Specify → Source → Assure
Six stages, each mapped to implemented capability. Most teams enter at Discover and travel as far as their project needs — the model and its provenance carry forward either way.
Discover
Screen whole portfolios and single buildings. Rank which surfaces deserve study first.
Analyse
Rapid screening first — detailed BIPV/PV engineering where the inputs warrant it.
Design
Stage BIPV placement against the canonical model, in 3D, from IFC or drawings.
Specify
Match real BIPV products to real zones — deterministically, with evidence.
Source
Turn a strategy into an RFQ, collect responses, compare quotes on equal bases.
Assure
Branded reports where every figure traces back to its calculation.
One canonical model
The building model every stage agrees on
Project → Building → Surface → Zone → Module Array. Whatever the source — an IFC model, a reconstructed drawing set, or structured project data — SolaMaxa normalises it into one spatial model that screening, detailed analysis, design, products and reporting all read from. Selection is URL-addressable, so reviews start exactly where the question is.
Analyses carry provenance: resource source, shading provider, geometry context and product snapshots are recorded with every result.
Why one model matters
Replace the handoff chain, keep the disciplines
Architects, façade consultants, engineers and procurement still bring their own judgement. What changes is that they all work from the same model, with the same visible assumptions — instead of re-keying geometry into a chain of tools.
Without an integrated workflow
- Architectural model (BIM / IFC)
- Specialist solar tools — often rooftop-only
- Spreadsheets — re-keying geometry and orientation
- Product websites and datasheets
- Certification and fire documents, collected by hand
- Supplier email threads
- RFQ comparison spreadsheets
- Financial model rebuilt per project
- Report assembled manually
- BIM re-entry, without provenance
Each handoff re-keys data and loses context. Assumptions end up scattered across files nobody can fully reconstruct later.
With SolaMaxa
- Screen
- Analyse
- Design
- Specify
- Source
- Assure
One canonical building model carries every decision forward — the analysis, the products, the procurement package and the report all read from it.
Starting points
Where teams begin
Drawings
No model yet? Calibrated, explainable reconstruction from PDF or image drawings creates the canonical envelope — the dominant case in early-stage screening.
A portfolio question
Start at the estate: screen every building on a comparable basis and let the ranking decide which envelopes deserve detailed study first.
See it on a building you know
Walk the workflow on your own project.
We'll run the six stages against a building or portfolio you know — including which assumptions move the results and where the model should be challenged.
SolaMaxa is pre-beta. We are currently selecting the first architectural, BIPV, engineering and property teams.