Construction

Energy

Kieback&Peter Building Automation Business & Financials Examined

February 29th, 2024
Smart Buildings

Reviewing the 2024 Smart Building Overlay to RIBA’s Plan of Work

February 6th, 2024
Elithis Smart Building Net Zero Buildings
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: Elithis Tower, Dijon

The Elithis Tower in Dijon, France, is the headquarters of the Elithis Group, a building engineering consultant firm. Completed in March 2009, the facility was one of France’s first net zero buildings and is considered the world’s first positive energy office tower developed at a standard cost of construction. At just over 50,000 square feet […]

Funding Takes-off for AI Drone Building Inspection
Smart Buildings

Funding Takes Off for AI Drone Building Inspection!

Of the one million or so buildings in New York City, 314 have over 40 stories and are considered skyscrapers but more than 14,500 are over the six-story threshold to require a physical inspection of their facade every five years. With the growth of tall buildings around the world, especially in Asian and Middle Eastern […]

Ecoworks Building Envelope
Energy

The Energy Performance Potential of the Building Envelope

Often the most obvious things are the hardest to see, and that could be said of the building envelope in our quest for climate-friendly real estate. Architectural trends over the past few decades have favored glass, prioritizing the facade’s aesthetic appeal and leaving the envelope’s functional aspects to take a backseat. Double or triple-pane glass […]

Net Zero Buildings Bullit Center
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: The Bullitt Center

The Bullitt Center in Seattle, WA, is one of the net zero buildings known as a pioneer of “deep green” architectural design. Completed in March 2013, the $32.5 million dollar project was considered an “audacious and provocative experiment and living proof of the economic and technical viability of sustainable buildings” in a 2014 paper by […]

Venture Capital Suffolk Technologies
Smart Buildings

A New Venture Capital Fund to Bridge the Construction-Operation Divide?

In this Research Note, we take a look at Suffolk Technologies, the corporate venture capital arm of Suffolk Construction, which recently closed a $110 million inaugural venture capital fund for “Built World Technology Innovations.” The fund will invest in early-to-growth stage companies across construction technology (ConTech) and property technology (PropTech) spaces, with a focus on […]

Net Zero Buildings The Forge London
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: The Forge, Bankside

Completed in January 2023, The Forge, Bankside, comprises two new-build net-zero commercial office buildings of nine storeys each and almost 140,000 square feet of internal space. It is the first commercial office development constructed and operated in line with the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) net zero carbon buildings framework. Property developer, Landsec, has constructed […]

Systemair Ventilation Air Conditioning
Energy

Systemair Ventilation Business 2022 Examined

Founded in 1974, Systemair AB is a ventilation and air conditioning group with operations in more than 50 countries. The firm has reported an operating profit every year since its establishment and, over the past 10 years, the company’s average growth has averaged over 9%. In the 2021/22 financial year, Systemair achieved sales of SEK […]

Smart Cities

Do Smart Cities Work in Developing Countries?

Since the Indian government announced their 100 Smart Cities Mission in 2015, industry media channels have been flooded with news on the latest city selected and the next technology to be implemented. Other populous developing countries, like Egypt and Indonesia, are now following India’s smart cities policy with ambitious projects at their own scale, each striving […]

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