Capital Tower, in Singapore, is one of the buildings vying for the honor of the “oldest smart building in the world”. While building management systems had long been helping us run our buildings, when the Captial Tower was built in 2000, the 52-story structure was celebrated for its energy efficiency, real-time car park status, and news bulletins in the elevator, features that wouldn’t make the news today. The property industry continues to raise the bar on what justifies the title “Smart Building” — yesterday it was just being energy-efficient, tomorrow it’s all about being occupant-centric. “While the first major wave of smart building technology investment was driven by sustainability and energy efficiency goals, the second wave of smarter buildings is being fueled by a greater involvement of stakeholders who were previously not part of the decision-making and the need to provide a better experience to the building occupants,” states our new report: Occupancy Analytics & […]