Applications

Every kind of building this can sit on, and what it does for the people who own it.

178 property types across 13 classes of real estate. Each one gets a film, the design implications for that class, and an honest account of what the income line funds. The constraint is always the same: electrical service, not roof area.

Start with your asset class

Still from the ROSE film for Industrial and Logistics: an aerial of a distribution warehouse roof carrying a full panel array. Watch here 01 Industrial and Logistics The best surface in commercial real estate is already built, already served, and earning nothing. Still from the ROSE film for Multifamily and Residential Income: a residential high rise shot looking up the façade at dusk. Watch here 02 Multifamily and Residential Income Density is what unlocks residential, and the reason is the house meter. Still from the ROSE film for Retail: an aerial of a big box retail store at dusk, full roof in frame. Watch here 03 Retail When the roof pays, the shelf can cost less. Still from the ROSE film for Office: an aerial of an office park, roofs and parking in frame. Watch here 04 Office The most distressed asset class in America is also the one with a façade. Still from the ROSE film for Healthcare: an aerial of a hospital campus with its roof plant visible. Watch here 05 Healthcare The building already runs 24/7, already has engineered emergency power, and already needs the compute. Still from the ROSE film for Education: a full lecture hall, students at desks facing an instructor. Watch here 06 Education A school district owns more roof than almost anyone in its county. Still from the ROSE film for Government, Civic and Institutional: an aerial of a municipal water treatment plant. Watch here 07 Government, Civic and Institutional The country's infrastructure is distressed, and the country owns an enormous amount of roof. Still from the ROSE film for Transportation and Infrastructure: an airport terminal concourse under a glazed panel canopy. Watch here 08 Transportation and Infrastructure Ports, rail yards and airports are industrial electrical environments with acres of surface. Still from the ROSE film for Parking: a parking structure with the walkable panel deck over the top level. Watch here 09 Parking The highest usable fraction surface we have, and the owner is often not the building owner. Still from the ROSE film for Hospitality, Leisure and Assembly: a resort pool deck with cabanas below a hotel tower. Watch here 10 Hospitality, Leisure and Assembly Resorts and convention centers have the service headroom. Stadiums have the surface and the story. Still from the ROSE film for Energy, Utility and Telecom: a substation yard with transformer rows and switchgear. Watch here 11 Energy, Utility and Telecom Built with the serving utility, on the ground that is already interconnected. Still from the ROSE film for Agriculture and Rural: line art of greenhouse, barn, packing house and vertical farm types. Watch here 12 Agriculture and Rural Controlled environment agriculture already pays for the power. It should get the compute too. Still from the ROSE film for Mixed-Use, Land and Programmatic: a mixed-use block at street level, tram and pedestrians at golden hour. Watch here 13 Mixed-Use, Land and Programmatic Where the building has not been designed yet, the load can be designed for.

Safety is a design requirement, not a disclaimer

Designed to be safe for the people in the building, the animals around it, the environment it sits in, and the property itself.

Electromagnetic emissions

A ROSE panel is digital computing hardware inside a grounded, conductive enclosure. It is designed to the same emissions and immunity standards that govern the servers, switches and building automation already inside occupied space, and the enclosure itself acts as a shield. It is not a transmitter. It broadcasts nothing, it steers no beam, and it produces no ionizing radiation of any kind. Where a site carries radio equipment for backhaul, that equipment is a separate, separately certified device and it is sited and labeled to the rules that govern radio, not folded into the panel.

People

Every surface a person can reach is designed to be touch safe at normal operating temperature. Energized components sit behind tool access barriers with rated disconnects. Walkable installations are engineered to the walking surface live load, with slip resistance and trip edge treatment. Roof work follows fall protection design, not a promise about behavior.

Animals

Enclosures are sealed against nesting and intrusion. There are no exposed hot surfaces, no open blades and no exposed conductors at grade or at roof level. Canopy installations are designed to avoid the reflective glare and the thermal plumes that make some rooftop equipment a hazard to birds.

Water and the environment

The thermal loop is sealed and closed, rejecting heat dry. Using liquid inside a loop is not the same as consuming water, and near zero operational water consumption is a design requirement rather than an aspiration. There is no combustion in the panel, no stack, and no onsite process emission.

Fire and electrical

Panels are designed to the electrical code path that governs the building they attach to, with rated overcurrent protection, listed disconnects, and a documented shutdown that a first responder can find and operate. Fire service access, roof pathways and clearance are part of the layout, not an afterthought.

The property itself

Mechanically attached mounting is the default assumption on existing buildings, engineered by a licensed structural engineer of record against the actual roof, not a catalog assumption. Where a membrane warranty matters, the attachment path is coordinated with the roofing manufacturer before anything is fastened. Wind uplift, seismic and snow are designed to the governing code edition for the site.

Noise

There is no engine and no combustion. Heat rejection is designed to the sound limit the property has to live with, including residential setback ordinances, and the target is that a neighbor cannot tell the difference.

Responsible sourcing, environment and governance

Responsible sourcing and governance are designed in at the bill of materials, not bolted on in a report.

Materials and supply chain

The program is built to know where its materials come from. Suppliers are screened for conflict minerals reporting on tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, and for cobalt and mica due diligence, using the established OECD framework rather than a self declaration. Preference goes to suppliers who can produce a real chain of custody.

Recovered and recyclable by design

Enclosure, structure and heat rejection are specified in aluminum and steel, which have mature recycling streams and high recovered content availability. Panels are designed for service access and component level replacement so a refresh swaps the compute cassette rather than landfilling the assembly.

End of life

Hardware retirement runs through certified electronics recyclers with documented downstream accountability, with data bearing devices sanitized to a recognized media sanitization standard before they leave the site.

Environmental

The environmental case is the siting itself. Putting compute on buildings that are already built, already served and already connected avoids the greenfield land take, the new substation and the new transmission that a conventional campus requires. Dry heat rejection keeps operational water near zero. Waste heat recovery is designed for on properties that can use it.

Social

Installation, commissioning and maintenance are local trades work by definition, because the sites are wherever the buildings are. Electricians, roofers, ironworkers, controls technicians and network technicians in the community that hosts the site. Apprenticeship and local hire commitments are structured into deployment programs where the host wants them.

Governance

Every design decision, number and commercial term the program publishes is recorded in an append only, hash chained ledger inside our own systems, so any figure in any document can be traced to what it came from and when it changed. That is how a diligence reader gets an answer instead of an assurance.