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4 Ways Smart Building Technology Helps Optimize Operational Efficiency

This blog covers smart building technology and how it helps optimize operational efficiency and optimizing facility management and reduce costs. This is […]

Now is the Time to Move to the Next-Generation of Building Management Systems

The capabilities of a building management system, or BMS, need to evolve to keep up with the demands of building owners, operators, […]

Healthy buildings: How technologies can reduce infectious disease transmission

Building controls integrated with smart building technology and applications can be enabled to help simplify, improve, and automate safety and infection risk […]

Smart Buildings: Assessing the “Openness” of a Building Management System

As more building owners strive for smart buildings, the term “open” is often described as a requirement for their building management system […]

Smart Buildings and the Future of Work

This report explains the advantages that smart buildings offer to occupiers and developers of commercial real estate.

Reducing Infectious Disease Risks with Smart Building Technologies and Management Systems

Global pandemics like COVID-19 put the transmission of viruses and the spread of infectious diseases at the forefront of concerns for commercial […]

The making of a smart workplace How to phase scenarios for maximum impact

There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for IoT deployment in the workplace. It largely depends on business priorities. Nevertheless, in a first stage, […]

Improving Building Operating Decisions: A Tool to Help Make Smart Decisions

Review of a question-driven software service tool used to help FMs, FM consultants and other FM professionals prioritize energy, maintenance and human […]

Get the Supplier You Deserve

Facility managers rely on service providers to be successful. When they fail, you fail and you don’t have the luxury of blaming […]

No Building is an Island: Hardball on the future of FM

“The ambient office; smart buildings; smart cities; zero net energy consumption; every building a mini-power plant; free-addressing; the post-carbon economy.” We’ve all […]