Smart Buildings

Audio: Why Smart Buildings need Smart Thinking!

For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 1st Free Webinar in the 2016 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Tridium…

“How can Buildings Evolve to Anticipate what Occupants Need & Desire?” A Webinar Q&A with Paul Fletcher, Innovative Design-Thinker & Principal at through… We discus how the Building Industry needs to accept and embrace a new paradigm in understanding how people use the built environment.

In this Webinar, we discuss some important issues relating about how we need to starting asking ourselves as an industry the right questions when designing and constructing buildings;

  • We need to think about whether we are getting carried away with the solutions we are used to providing, to the detriment of really thinking about what problems we should be solving in the first place.
  • What is needed is shift from product to service, a service that is provided through ‘smart’ buildings that are seamless integrated holistic systems. What the building does being the value that is sold, not the building itself.

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