Such is the rate of technological change in the modern era that it is almost impossible to plan for the next innovation or technological revolution. However, the brick and mortar, or glass and steel, of the physical building works on a entirely different timescale. While technologists’ talks about months and years, constructionists’ discuss decades. So as our buildings and their technologies become inseparable, how can we possibly align these temporally distinct fields? How can we construct buildings today for the technologies of tomorrow? To put it another way… considering the rate of change who knows what smart building technologies we will be talking about in just 15 years. The truth is that we cannot plan for the unknown but we must try to prepare for it. “Future proofing” is the process of anticipating the future and developing methods of minimizing the effects of shocks and stresses of future events. Future proofing revolves around the term […]