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Smart building technology promises to revolutionize our built environment but as yet it really only applies to the biggest buildings, the 10% of commercial real estate where return on investment (ROI) is attractive enough. For the vast majority of buildings, the small and medium sized commercial real estate, this revolution is yet to take shape […]

It is an all too common problem for buildings; hundreds of windows are cleaned then a dust storm hits the next day, or the roof is scheduled for maintenance but it starts raining just as work starts. Then the question for facility managers is when to restart maintenance or how to anticipate weather to adjust […]

“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, […]

Memoori has tracked a number of strategic partnerships between several of the leading players of building performance software in recent times. These are proving to be critical in the development of new software products but partnerships have not always been popular in this business so what is driving it? Our report The Market for Building […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research We are seeing the convergence of Building Energy Management with Facilities Management and Asset Management, as software and services addressing building performance optimization take centre stage in the commercial and industrial buildings market. The boundaries between technology offerings are blurring as IoT and digital […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Partnerships focusing on IoT solutions in buildings have gained prominence in the past year. We have tracked over 30 alliances announced since January 2016 between the main building technology incumbents, IT partners and specialised IoT platform providers. This excludes strategic investments, minority stakes, and […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement by UTC on 20 March 2017 of a $300 million investment in a Digital Accelerator based in Brooklyn, New York is another example of the trend by building technology suppliers to step up their digital innovation efforts. The accelerator will serve as […]