Built Environment
Now is The Time To Get Serious About Energy Efficiency!
October 13th, 2017No Commercial Building Too Small For The Internet of Things Era
September 12th, 2017
Trusted Identities Are An Essential Part Of The Access Control Evolution, But Who Governs Privacy?
“It’s not about tracking or monitoring people, it’s about keeping the bad people out and preventing insider attacks with the right risk management,” says Serra Luck, HID Global’s VP End User and Consultant Business – Physical Access Control Solutions, on the issue of privacy in our increasingly connected built environment. While this may sound good […]
Putting 3D People Into 3D Building Design With BIM & Advanced Crowd Simulations
Have you ever looked at architectural illustrations, showing relaxed people happily interacting with their built environment, all distributed evenly across the landscape, and thought; that’s not how our buildings and cities actually look. The truth is that many buildings have one busy entrance/exit and another that is not used; cities have a crowded street next […]
Reconstructing Smart Buildings into Platforms and Services: Nordic Smart Building Convention 2017
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research Startups and established players alike gathered in Helsinki earlier this month at the Nordic Smart Building Convention to discuss the state of the market for intelligence, digitalization and autonomous sensing in the built environment. This article aims to give a few highlights of the […]
What Would Our Cities Look Like If We Started From Scratch?
What would our cities look like if we started again, from scratch, with everything we know now? Would we create central business districts (CBDs) if we had the chance to redesign our cities? How different would our buildings be from the environments we have created now? These questions about workplaces, the built environment and city […]
An Activity-Aware Approach To Designing Smart Buildings And Cities
The cyber physical systems (CPS) revolution is well underway. All manner of physical objects in our buildings and cities are being brought online under the banner of the Internet of Things (IoT). Objects with the ability to sense their environment and reason about the implications, are optimising processes, creating value, enhancing resiliency and developing responsiveness. […]
Smart Buildings Can Make Us More Healthy
So smart buildings make us more energy efficient, smart buildings make us safer and more secure, smart buildings make us more comfortable and even make us more productive, but can they make us healthier? It certainly seems to be moving that way as the smart building industry is adding ‘wellness’ to its growing list of […]
Webinar: Smart Buildings need Smart Thinking
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Wednesday 20th January for our 1st FREE Webinar in the 2016 Smart Building Series, sponsored by Tridium… “How can Buildings Evolve to Anticipate what Occupants Need & Desire?” A Webinar Q&A with Paul Fletcher, Innovative Design-Thinker & Principal at through… We […]
Smart Cities and Buildings: The Reaction From COP21
“History will remember this day,” said Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, moments after a green, leaf-shaped gavel was dropped on the most ambitious, far-reaching deal on addressing climate change that the world has ever seen – United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). Perhaps the event’s most encouraging element was the large number […]
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