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“Open Sesame” Exploring Alibaba’s Smart Building Approach
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February 15th, 2023The Long-Term Demand for Healthy Buildings
“General hygiene expectations of employees have risen significantly, and facilities services providers are under pressure to maintain rigorous sanitation regimes, especially in common areas. Adopting rigorous cleaning routines remains paramount to maintaining building occupant confidence,” reads our recent study on the IoT in smart commercial buildings. “The COVID-19 pandemic has elicited significant changes to working practices […]
The Rise of Health Certification in Commercial Real Estate
We have long recognized the importance of our buildings on human health. Studies dating back decades have highlighted huge amounts of time we spend in buildings and how the indoor environment can impact our physical, and mental health. Performance metrics and certification programs around indoor health began to emerge in the 2010s but were still […]
Recording: What is SmartScore? Identifying Best in Class Smart Buildings
Here is the Video Recording from our 4th Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. What is SmartScore? Identifying Best in Class Smart Buildings. Memoori was joined by Jules Barker from WiredScore and Joe Brown from Kingsett to discuss their new certification initiative, SmartScore; which has recently launched with 70 buildings and 44 landlords across 7 countries. […]
Health is Just a Factor of Wellbeing, & Wellbeing is Key to Workplace Productivity
In the buildings industry, we talk a lot about the health and wellbeing of occupants, but what do these terms really mean and what’s the difference between them? Can you be healthy and lack wellbeing, or achieve wellbeing in poor health? These terms have become central to the generation of value in modern real estate, […]
The Smart Building Industry Begins to See Cleaning in a New Light
Few in-building technologies have experienced a more significant boost from the COVID-19 pandemic than UV-C light disinfection. The sanitation solution has been used for more than 40 years in disinfecting drinking water, wastewater, ventilated air, and pharmaceutical products, against a range of human pathogens. This year’s on-going global health crisis, however, has focused extra hype […]
On the Verge of a New Generation of Buildings that Harness the Potential of their Occupants
Office construction is on the rise. Since 2010, a boom has been underway around the world — with activity set to peak in 2020 at close to 19 million square meters globally, similar to levels at the height of the last two cycles in 2001 and 2008. The current economic upswing impacts the commercial real […]
The Workplace is Like a City with Distinct Zones for Each Activity
The workplace is evolving into a more human space. Alongside the technological transformation of our office buildings, new approaches to workplace design have emerged that have found the best path to productivity is to focus on the various needs of their diverse group of employees. Our cities, that have developed over decades and centuries, offer […]
Standards, Tools & Frameworks are Essential to the Future of Smart Buildings
The journey of smart building development began years, even decades, ago but we still don’t agree on what a smart building exactly is. We can’t say what amount of technology, human-centricity, efficiency, connectivity, or user-friendliness makes a building smart. It feels like buildings can’t be smart without technology but too much technology could possibly make […]