Cleaning
SoftBank Bets On Robotic Cleaning in Smart Buildings
May 6th, 2022Recording: How Do Smart Restrooms Make Buildings Healthier?
February 10th, 2022
Smart Building Tech Can Limit Infection But We Need to Present the Data to Alleviate Fear
Office workers have become comfortable at home. After being forced to work from home for much of the last 12-months, the long-awaited return to the office (whenever it comes) will now represents change and with change comes fear. Just as the end of the pandemic will not be a specific date, the return to the […]
Change is in the Air for Post-COVID Commercial Real Estate
Creating a safe and healthy work environment has always been a lure used by employers to attract the best talent and motivate them to be comfortable and productive in the office. What has changed in the last year is what “safe and healthy” looks like. As we approach a year since COVID truly began making […]
Pandemic Adaptation Means Smarter Commercial Buildings
The world has not had a pandemic on this scale for a very long time. Comparable crises come from a distant past where statistics are largely estimated, when our society was less globalized, and many steps back in our ability to enact public health regulation. Many of the previous viruses themselves may have been as […]
COVID19 will Condense Years of Behavioral Change & Technology Disruption
Within the last six months across the developed world, the tectronic plates of business have shifted fast. Caused in large part by the need to overcome the COVID19 pandemic through changes in people behavior. The world has entered into uncharted waters and a deep recession. The good news is that these changes have given the […]
The Smart Building Industry Begins to See Cleaning in a New Light
Few in-building technologies have experienced a more significant boost from the COVID-19 pandemic than UV-C light disinfection. The sanitation solution has been used for more than 40 years in disinfecting drinking water, wastewater, ventilated air, and pharmaceutical products, against a range of human pathogens. This year’s on-going global health crisis, however, has focused extra hype […]
Can’t Touch This! Report Hammers Home Key Message of Post-COVID Buildings
To survive the COVID-19 pandemic, society returned to traditional defensive measures; lockdowns, social distancing, plus soap and water. To cope with the crisis, we have embraced the digital world like never before, seamlessly swapping physical for virtual during the social aspects of work and play. To return to “normality,” we will again turn to technology, […]
Commercial Buildings are at the Center of our “Return to New Normal” Strategy
China is starting to return to some kind of normality. In Italy, Spain, and a host of other countries that were hit early or lightly, they have introduced their de-escalation plans and have begun to ease lockdown measures. It will still take a while, but we can now begin to consider when we might return […]
Everybody Wants to Save the Planet But Who Wants to Clean the Floor?
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest,” said lifestyle author, Radhika Mundra, long before the arrival of coronavirus and the subsequent cleaning crusade that swept across the world. There is a growing sense that the world has changed, that things will be different after we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, “a new normal” the […]