Commercial Buildings
Buildings Need to Cement Their Place in the New World of Electric Mobility
November 18th, 2021Johnson Controls 2021 Annual Report Examined
November 17th, 2021
Work is at an Unprecedented Junction with an Inevitable Conclusion
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US workforce spent just 5% of their total working time remote from the office. By the spring of 2020, that figure had risen to 60% and remained at a similar level for over a year, according to an April 2021 special report by The Economist. In Europe, 89% of companies now […]
DOE Connected Buildings Pilot: A Small Step in the Right Direction
Earlier this month the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $61 million pilot project that will create 10 highly connected communities across the country. The initiative will transform thousands of homes and workplaces into energy-efficient buildings that can interact with the electrical grid to optimize their energy consumption. While not extraordinary in terms of investment or […]
Recording: Why Should I Adopt a Digital Twin?
Here is the Video Recording from our 7th Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Interviews on Soundcloud, iTunes, YouTube and now Spotify! Why Should I Adopt a Digital Twin? Memoori was joined by Sebastien Coulon, co-founder of SpinalCom to discuss the OT […]
Webinar: A ‘Smarter Stack’ to Reduce Complexity in Smart Buildings
** Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please join us on Wednesday 15th September at 1700 CEST | 1600 BST | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 6th FREE Webinar in the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. A ‘Smarter Stack’ to Reduce Complexity in Smart Buildings. Memoori is Joined by Anto Budiardjo to […]
Digital Twins Advance the Journey Towards Improved Commercial Building Outcomes
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. While the benefits of Digital Twin solutions have been seen in pilot projects, this early adopter phase has yet to fully deliver on the promise of improved outcomes for commercial buildings. This was the conclusion of our 2020 article on Early Innovators at the Forefront of […]
A Future of Smart Building Cyberattacks in the Pipeline?
On May 7th 2021, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced it was the victim of ransomware cyberattacks that forced it to disable the largest petroleum pipeline in the US. The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day of gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel on an almost 9,000 km route from Houston, Texas, to […]
Does Technology Make Buildings More or Less Resilient?
Resilience is the ability to overcome future challenges, both the expected and the unexpected. The term has been used increasingly in the buildings industry in recent years, alongside other terms such as sustainability and continuity. However, while sustainability and continuity are focused on survival, the true goal of resilience is to thrive despite challenges. Resilience […]
How Far We Really Are From AI-Enabled Smart Buildings
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a symbol of futuristic technological development since the mid-1950s but for the vast majority of that time it has been limited to the imaginations and research of academics and science fiction writers. In the last 10-years, however, our increasing computational capabilities have begun to lay the foundations for practical applications […]
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