Smart Buildings

A Year in The Life of a Building — The Turbulent Story of 2020

The beginning of 2020 seems like a long time ago. While COVID-19 was already starting to make an impact in China and neighboring countries, for the rest of the world it was just another January. In the smart building industry, we were talking about Amazon, Apple, and Google asserting their dominance over the smart home with an open standard, and highlighting the need to introduce the concept of embodied carbon to stop prematurely demolishing our buildings. In the smart city space, we were discussing BIM/GIS digital twins and the potential of biomorphic urbanism. And, in the workplace, somewhat ironically, we were talking about how we could develop the office environment to cater to an aging workforce. It was the beginning of a new decade but it was just another year. “With office densification rates increasing across the world, combined with evidence of poor space utilization and the expectations of occupants for more human and productive […]

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