“The buildings industry is notoriously slow to embrace change and innovation, and established procurement practices are highly risk averse and tend towards lowest-cost options,” highlights our latest report Future Proofing Smart Commercial Buildings. “While the market for smart building technologies continues to grow at a healthy rate, and customer expectations continue to rise, the technology is yet to become truly mainstream.” We may have been talking about smart buildings for 25 years or so, but some technologies are still in the early adopter phase and have been for quite some time. For the industry to move on to the first follower phase, the era of growth that leads to mass adoption, we must develop stronger evidence to support bold value generation claims. The business case for smart buildings must be clear, offering a more quantifiable return on investment (ROI) and more tangible benefits — not just a vision of a happy, healthy, productive workplace. When […]