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title: "TCRO ROI Snapshot: Mixed-Use and Office | Novem"
description: How Total Cost of Risk Ownership (TCRO) shows up in office and mixed-use portfolios, from business interruption to utilities and premiums.
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# TCRO ROI Snapshot: Mixed-Use and Office

Blog October 5, 2026 2 min read By Novem

Office and Mixed-Use

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## What Total Cost of Risk Ownership (TCRO) looks like in mixed-use and office portfolios

In office and mixed‑use properties, TCRO usually concentrates in:

- Business interruption when core systems fail (HVAC, elevators, access, water)
- Utility costs, especially in older assets with leaks and inefficient systems
- Insurance premiums and deductibles on larger schedules
- Governance and reporting overhead for investors, lenders, and ESG commitments

Failures can translate into:

- Tenants unable to occupy space or operate businesses
- Emergency repairs and overtime
- Disputes and concessions that affect NOI
- Tougher conversations at renewal and with lenders

## Typical pattern when you connect building data to TCRO

When you treat building data as a financial asset and connect it to TCRO, you tend to see:

- Fewer unplanned outages through predictive maintenance
- Lower energy and water spend through leak detection and better controls
- Clearer justification for modernization projects with both ESG and TCRO returns
- Insurance and financing conversations that are based on evidence, not just disclosure

This is where [Make Data Pay: Turning Building Risk Data into a Financial Asset](https://www.novemdigital.com/insights/make-data-pay) and [From ESG Reporting to TCRO](https://www.novemdigital.com/resources/esg-to-tcro) intersect.

## How to quantify mixed‑use and office TCRO ROI for your own portfolio

Two steps:

- ## Build a segmented TCRO view. Use the [TCRO calculator](https://www.novemdigital.com/tcro#calculator) to model TCRO for office and mixed-use segments separately, with special attention to outages and utilities.
- ## Get a one-day estimate for a flagship asset. Use [Estimate Your Savings](https://www.novemdigital.com/estimate-your-savings) for one key office tower or mixed-use property to understand what predictive operations and better risk data could change in that specific building’s TCRO profile.

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## How can we help?

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- Data Sources
- 1 Novem / industry data
- 2 [Aon Liquid Damage Report, 2024](https://www.aon.com/getmedia/6deff800-90ec-436c-9bcc-d1ac5c93e1d7/2024-Liquid-Damage-A-Significant-Cause-of-Property-Losses.pdf)
- 3 Novem / industry data
- 4 [ABB Value of Reliability Survey, 2023](https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/abb-survey-reveals-unplanned-downtime-costs-295471/)

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