Building Technology
Can UV-Light Kill Coronavirus in Our Contaminated Buildings?
April 6th, 2020Global Investment in Smart Building Technology Exceeds $16.5Bn since 2017
January 28th, 2020
Webinar: Is 2020 the Year of Building Automation Cybersecurity?
Please Join us on Wednesday 5th February 1500 CET | 0900 EDT | 0600 PDT for our 1st FREE Webinar in the 2020 Smart Buildings Series Live from the AHR Expo. This is a FREE Q&A Webinar with Anto Budiardjo & Jim Lee from Cimetrics discussing BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) and what lies ahead in […]

Future Buildings to Offer “Collaborative Ecosystem Where 1 + 1 = 4”
“Co-development and co-creation between building technology companies are going to define the future of building operations. For us to create a higher value, or to tap into the next level of innovation, how we co-create with other providers in order to provide a better outcome for the user will be essential,” President and CEO of […]

Continually Demolishing & Rebuilding Our Buildings Is Not Smart or Sustainable
The pyramids of Giza have been standing intact for over 4000-years and are not even the oldest pyramids in Egypt.The Pantheon in Rome has been in continuous use for over 2000-years, Istanbul’s intricate Santa Sophia appears pristine despite is 1483-year age, while the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine, has housed worshipers for the […]

Johnson Controls Augments Building Control Product Portfolio with Acquisition of EasyIO
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In a relatively rare move to augment its building automation business, Johnson Controls, one of the top 3 vendors of building automation systems, announced the acquisition of EasyIO, a manufacturer of open BMS control products on 21st November 2019. In recent years, Johnson […]

Standards, Tools & Frameworks are Essential to the Future of Smart Buildings
The journey of smart building development began years, even decades, ago but we still don’t agree on what a smart building exactly is. We can’t say what amount of technology, human-centricity, efficiency, connectivity, or user-friendliness makes a building smart. It feels like buildings can’t be smart without technology but too much technology could possibly make […]

The WeWork Carnival, Softbank & the Future of Co-Working
“I think I’ve run out of the words to describe what’s been going on, from surreal to crazy to unbelievable to — someone texted me yesterday — “bonkers,” all of those things are true and yet the reality is that we’re still here and we’re still here together. I just want to remind all of […]

The Sun-Like Future of Human-Centric Lighting
Seoul Semiconductor has long promoted it’s SunLike LED series as a pioneering technology in the human-centric lighting (HCL) space. In this emerging market still fighting to justify the science behind its concept, the SunLike series has become a growing success story in numerous applications. So, is Seoul Semiconductor’s LED series actually better than other systems […]

Demonstrating Smart Building Business Value Further Up The Chain
“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 […]