Design & Build
Smart Building Startups H1 2026: 169 Funding Rounds, 46 Acquisitions & a Shrinking Pipeline
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Legence IPO Filing 2025: Financial & Market Position Analysis
This Research Note examines the recent Legence Corp. filing at the US SEC for an Initial Public Offering. We highlight the transaction details, profile the business segments offering engineering, installation and maintenance services and sustainability consulting, and explore the financial highlights of the $2.1 billion revenue company. Transaction Details Blackstone is exploring a potential sale […]
The Game-Changing Potential of Game Engines for Building Design
What would it mean for the real estate industry if we could visit our facilities before they’re built? If we could walk around a virtual building to better understand the space and test how various systems work in real-time, before making adjustments. If we could take owners and investors on a tour of their future […]
Smarter Buildings Demand Smart Construction Procurement
“There is a rot at the core of how construction is procured and it begins with clients and main contractors. We are already at the bottom, as can be seen in cruel black and white by the failures of large main contractors throughout 2023. Something has to change!” proclaimed Mike Wharton, chief executive of Complete […]
Net Zero Buildings Explored: Cambridge University’s Civil Engineering Building
The University of Cambridge, in the UK, is known as one of the leading academic institutions in the world and maintaining that reputation in modern times demands progressive strategies such as net zero buildings development. Completed in 2019, the university’s Civil Engineering building has become a beacon of sustainable intentions within a major redevelopment of […]
Breaking the Shackles: Overcoming Resistance to Change in Smart Buildings
The commercial building industry has been notoriously slow in its adoption of new smart buildings technologies, struggling with a deep-seated inertia that has seen innovation lag other market verticals. Bound by the shackles of long-established practices and the burden of decades-old infrastructure and systems, it remains highly resistant to disruption. Complex supply chains, entrenched ecosystems, […]
#Podcast 19: Why has an Architectural Firm Acquired a Smart Building Integrator?
In our Podcast series “Sh*t You Wish Your Building Did!”, Memoori explores the intersection between technology and commercial real estate through interesting conversations. Last month, architectural and interior design services company Aukett Swanke Group (ASG) confirmed the acquisition of smart building integrator company Torpedo Factory Group (TFG), in a deal that hints at a new potential […]
Bridging the Design-Operate Divide in Commercial Buildings
This week, architectural and interior design services company Aukett Swanke Group (ASG) has confirmed the acquisition of smart building technology company Torpedo Factory Group (TFG), in a deal that hints at a new potential trend in the commercial buildings sector. While architects have used M&A to broaden their technological capabilities in the past, few deals […]
Discovering Where BIM Ends & Digital Twins Begin
Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital twins are two important technological concepts that can, at times, be considered quite separate or be used interchangeably in the buildings sector. Both concepts could be defined as “a digital representation of assets, processes and systems in a physical space,” yet they tend to be used by very different […]