Retrofit

Buildings are arguably the biggest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for about 40% of total energy consumption and 39% of all carbon dioxide emissions. While energy efficiency and smart building movements have reduced building energy consumption per square foot in recent years, the 3% annual increase in the sheer number of square feet […]

Over six days in May 2018, German conglomerate Siemens made its smart building intentions clear. On the 17th, Siemens announced its acquisition of Los Angeles based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and IoT technologies. Six days later, on May 23rd, the European manufacturing giant announced the acquisition of California-based IoT-enabled smart […]

“The Paris Agreement has sent a signal around the world. A new energy system is emerging. It will unfold over decades, moving at different paces in different places. The transition offers challenges, opportunities and tough choices for governments, businesses and customers,” states the Shell Energy Transition Report. Royal Dutch Shell, the British-Dutch oil and gas […]

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 […]

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 […]