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Pedro Resende

Founder, CEO

Our Watch Leads - OWL, Lda

Coimbra, Portugal

Start-up

Pedro Resende, architect, business owner since 2014, Founded Our Watch Leads - OWL in 2020. Connecting Sustainable Cities and Buildings with Geo AI.

My organisation

Digital Footprints for Sustainable Cities and Buildings OWLplaces empowers urban real estate asset owners, developers, and infrastructure managers to co-map, co-monitor, and enhance buildings and infrastructure, providing a centralized digital platform for sustainability, decarbonization, and nature restoration. By integrating AI with asset and geospatial data, OWLplaces enables users to assess, improve, and report on carbon, environmental, and climate footprints, ensuring data-driven decision-making for long-term asset value and resilience. Through a structured three-step process—Whole Life Cycle Assessment, transition planning with eco-solutions, and real-time KPI tracking—real estate portfolios gain actionable insights to drive sustainable transformation. The platform supports: Asset Due Diligence & Underwriting – Delivering precise environmental and climate impact data to enhance investment, compliance, and risk assessment., Risk Prediction & Climate Adaptation – Identifying and mitigating risks from natural hazards, extreme weather, and biodiversity loss, ensuring asset resilience., Operational Efficiency & Cost Reduction – Optimizing asset management with a focus on renewable energy integration, water efficiency, HVAC cost reductions, and sustainable resource use., Revenue Enhancement & Green Investments – Leveraging sustainability data to unlock funding opportunities, attract green investments, and increase asset values through decarbonization and biodiversity-positive projects. OWLplaces helps real estate owners and infrastructure operators digitize and future-proof their assets, ensuring compliance with international sustainability frameworks while fostering low-carbon, nature-inclusive, and climate-resilient urban environments.
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About me

I am Pedro Resende, an architect who completed my Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ FCTUC) in 2010. After five years as a project architect coordinator, I founded my own design company in 2015, developing building projects across Africa and Europe.

Since 2020, I have been the co-founder and managing director of OUR WATCH LEADS – OWL, LDA (www.ourwatchleads.com), a startup in the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre Alumni Network. At OWL, I lead the team’s conceptual development, technical production, and R&D, bridging my expertise in sustainable buildings and geospatial data to create innovative solutions that transform how we assess and improve real estate and infrastructure.

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Skills

  • sustainable cities
  • Geospatial Data
  • Building & Infrastructure

Interests

  • football
  • sustainable cities and buildings
  • Karate

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