Energy Management
Building-to-Grid Interconnectivity has “Far-Reaching Electricity Policy & Regulatory Implications”
November 8th, 2019Smart Building Startups Continue to Attract High Levels of Funding in Q2
July 23rd, 2019
Buildings Consume Too Much Energy. We Need Stronger Regulation. “There’s No Time to Waste”
History is unfortunately full of examples of building and construction legislation that came too late. The use of combustible cladding offers several recent examples, including the London’s Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, or the fires in Melbourne’s Lacrosse Tower and Neo200 building just this February. Combustible cladding on a tower block is an […]
Smart Buildings Set For Big Smart City Integration Drive in 2019
A city is essentially just a collection of buildings. A smart city, therefore, should be a collection of smart buildings. However, the development of smart buildings and smart cities has, so far, been relatively independent of one another. At the door of the building, a new network begins, with a new set of applications, and […]
How Valuable is the Channel in Smart Building Technology?
In the midst of increased M&A activity in the smart building space, it is natural to consider the implications to building owners, operators and other competing solution providers. Do these acquisitions mean that smart building technology is maturing and has “arrived”. Or, were these acquisitions made opportunistically? It’s hard to know, and the answers may […]
New Paper Underlines Blockchain’s Importance to the Future Energy System
The future of our energy system is distributed and complex. Made up of billions of endpoints – microgrids, renewable energy, smart buildings, appliances, sensors and energy management software – interacting with one another in multiple ways. The future of energy involves consumers and prosumers, it handles fluctuating renewable energy sources, utilizes energy storage, and it […]
Better Utilizing Human Intelligence For Energy Efficiency In Buildings
When attempting to increase energy efficiency in buildings, the single most influential change you can make is to the behavior of the user. This is not about changing behaviors that will cause discomfort or inconvenience, huge gains can be made by simply making people aware of the energy they waste. There is no need to […]
BuildingIQ Improves New Construction & Retrofit Capabilities with Buildingsense Acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions have become commonplace in the smart building sector. The fact that so many individual systems come together to create the complex entity broadly defined as “the smart building” lends itself to firms bringing together their unique skills in order to offer a more complete service to their customers. In the real estate […]
SaaS for CRE – Like Having a FitBit for Your Building
Buildings contribute 40% of all energy use around the world, they consume 70% of all electricity and emit 40% of all greenhouse gases. Global initiatives such as the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations’ 17 sustainability goals have identified energy efficiency in buildings as the low hanging fruit in the fight against climate change. […]
Webinar: The Five Pillars of Smart Asset Management
Please Join us on Tuesday 26th June 17:00 Central Europe Time (CET) for our 6th FREE Webinar in the 2018 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Project Haystack. The Five Pillars of Smart Asset Management. Memoori Talks to Logan Soya from Aquicore about the model his company built to better understand the needs of the industry […]
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