Human-Centric Buildings

Here is the Audio Stream from our 8th Free Webinar in the 2017 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Project Haystack. What Do Buyers of Smart Building Technology Really Think? A Q&A Webinar with Brian Shepherdson, Property and Facilities Management at Virgin Money; discussing his experiences in delivering complex Smart Building projects! Don’t Forget you can […]

Last week we discussed 32M, a Wisconsin based firm who are encouraging employees to have RFID chips implanted in their hands for enhanced purchasing and access control. This kind of development is just the latest part of the ongoing trend to add sensors and connected technology to every element of our increasingly smart workplaces. “Chipping […]

The office is a rapidly evolving space. Technology is simultaneously being introduced, replaced and rejected in this dynamic environment trying to find its best form. An office may host a wide variety of different organizations, departments and people at any one time and over the course of its lifetime, each with different characteristics and objectives. […]

Once upon a time, a building was just a building, providing shelter from the elements and a space to meet its specific objectives. Most buildings needed light and ventilation, heating or cooling, and often some form of access control. These needs created opportunities for service providers to offer better and more efficient systems to suit […]

A building that turns off lighting and HVAC systems automatically when a room empties is pretty smart. One that creates an individual environmental bubble around each occupant, which then follows them as they move through the building – well, that’s another level of smart. That has become the reality for one foundation in Italy, with […]

“Workplace strategy needs to be about more than just driving down costs and maximizing the utilization of assets: it must be about enabling productivity and collaboration” stated Mike Gedye, Executive Director at leading commercial property and real estate services adviser CBRE. Speaking at the Smart Buildings 17 event in London at the end of May, […]

This article was written by Digital Transformation Strategist Antony Slumbers / @antonyslumbers How many times have you heard Property people say that “Property is a people business’? Dozens, hundreds of times I imagine. Now, how many times have you heard them say that “Smart buildings are about people”? Never I suspect. No one in property […]