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Webinar: What Will Open Access Control Really Look Like?
May 22nd, 2019Physical Security Business Strategies will Need to Make Some Fundamental Changes
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Buildings Consume Too Much Energy. We Need Stronger Regulation. “There’s No Time to Waste”
History is unfortunately full of examples of building and construction legislation that came too late. The use of combustible cladding offers several recent examples, including the London’s Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, or the fires in Melbourne’s Lacrosse Tower and Neo200 building just this February. Combustible cladding on a tower block is an […]
The Complex Relationship Between Workplace Noise & Productivity
Printers stutter through their process in a pattern that makes you wonder why your colleague needs so many copies of the same thing, or reminds you that you have a few things to print. The whirring of the coffee machine will often make you check your cup, take a sip, or think about your favorite […]
Freelance Work Culture is Laying the Foundations for the Virtual Office
There are more than 53 million freelancers workers in the US, making up 34% of the national workforce according to a Freelancers Union report. Freelancers log more than one billion work hours per week and bring an estimated $715 billion in earnings into the US economy. Twice as many freelancers have seen an increase in […]
Biophilia is Slowly Seeping into Smart Building Design
Biophilia is a growing and loosely defined topic within the smart workplace evolution. It relates to humans’ intrinsic need for nature but is often symbolized by the simple addition of indoor plants or photographs of nature on the walls, and therefore is often not given a significant amount of attention by facility management. However, the […]
Building Energy Flexibility into Our Smart Power Systems
It is the same old problem. The large-scale distribution of renewable energy generation is required to mitigate the impacts of fuel poverty and climate change but these intermittent power sources push the grid to its limits or beyond them. The solution is the same too. We must develop a more flexible power system to account […]
WeWork Announces IPO Intentions
“The We Company (“WeWork”) announced that it has confidentially submitted an amended draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to an initial public offering of its common stock. WeWork initially submitted its Form S-1 with the SEC in December 2018. This process will enable WeWork to make the […]
IT Accelerates its Colonization of OT As Resistance Diminishes
The Internet of Things (IoT) is forcing the worlds of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) together as new environments like smart buildings link their OT systems to the information super-highway. The convergence of OT and IT is not a smooth one, however, issues surrounding business structure, skills shortages, data silos, cyber security and […]
Business Growth through Integration and now the Internet of Things
During the last 10 years there has been a demand for integrating all 3 physical security functions and this has gradually progressed top down from the Enterprise to the SMB market. Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software has been adopted in the public sector to create interoperability between safety & security systems including fire detection, […]
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