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🎧 #151: What we do @ Nexus Labs
24 augustus 2023 · 28 min
Episode 151 dives into what James and Rosy do at Nexus Labs beyond the podcast. From the pro membership community, to the courses platform, partnerships, and the marketplace, this episode brings you up to speed on all things Nexus Labs. We also hear from people who use these products and the impacts that they have. For more information check out the links in the show notes. Lees meer
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🎧 #150: Case Study: LONG Building Technologies on FDD
17 augustus 2023 · 50 min
Episode 150 features LONG Building Technologies and is our second episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. Leslie Beu and Lawrence Trifiletti talk honestly about the rollout of their FDD-driven service, diving into the impacts on their technicians, operations, customers, and overall business. Lees meer
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🎧 #149: Change My Mind: The Independent Data Layer
7 juni 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
Episode 149 is the first episode in our new debate style series called Change My Mind. This idea came from Nexus Pro member Pete Swanson. So thank you Pete, and we love that our community continues to inspire us to keep experimenting with the pod. The first topic is the independent data layer, and the debate center’s on if all buildings over a hundred thousand square feet should have an independent data layer in the smart building stack. The conversation is led by moderator James Dice, and then flanked by an opposing team with Alex Grace and Gregory Cmar, and a supporting team with Silvia Quaglia and Shaun Cooley. Kenny Trowers is the judge and neutral party that the teams need to convince to one side or the other. This episode format also features recording with a live virtual audience of our Pro Members that can engage in a chat while the debate is happening, as well as come to the stage to ask questions at the end. Enjoy! Lees meer
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🎧 #148: Foundations: Intro to Horizontal Architectures
7 juni 2023 · 15 min
Episode 148 is part of a new series called Foundations. The idea behind this series came from conversations with many of you from our Nexus community. We'll be covering topics that keep coming up time and time again, that don't have a lot of beginner resources. These are concepts that we explore in our Nexus Foundations course, our six week online introduction to the smart buildings industry, but these short episodes will give you an introduction into one important topic. Please let us know what you want to learn about next! Lees meer
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🎧 #147: Deep Dives: Audio/Visual Systems and The Role They Play
7 juni 2023 · 59 min
Deep Dives will be a new series of episodes featuring one on one conversations with various subject matter experts. Episode 147 is our first episode in this format featuring Ernie Beck from NV5 Engineering & Technology, discussing audio/visual systems, and the role they play. Ernie draws parallels from A/V stacks to traditional building stacks, teases out some pretty interesting smart tech from the audio/visual world, and makes a strong case for having a seat at the table when it comes to the smart building tenant and visitor experience. Lees meer
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🎧 #146: In The Field: Facility Manager Mary Gloven
7 juni 2023 · 24 min
Episode 146 is the first episode of a new series called In The Field. In The Field will feature people working out in the built environment giving real-life perspective on their day-to-day, and how smart building technologies fit, or don't fit in. This is one of our most creative concepts on the podcast to-date, featuring a self-narrative and then live interview. Episode 146 features facility manager Mary Gloven. We met Mary at the Alliance Center in Denver, CO and were immediately drawn to her unique background and magnetic position on the bigger picture of the built environment. And most importantly, those who work within. She inspired this entire episode format and we’re excited to hear what you all think! Lees meer
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🎧 #145: Early Stage: Waste Tracking with WATS
7 juni 2023 · 37 min
Early Stage is another new series of episodes featuring early stage founders of startups hoping to fill a gap in the smart buildings marketplace. Episode 145 is a conversation with Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli and Laura Rosenshine from WATS. Meredith and Laura share their passion and insights to better manage the waste we all produce. And they’re eager to connect with the Nexus community at large! Lees meer
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🎧 #144: Case Study: How the University of Iowa integrated FDD into maintenance operations
7 juni 2023 · 43 min
Episode 144 is the first episode in a new series diving into case studies of real life, large scale deployments of smart building technologies. For this first episode, we talk with the University of Iowa regarding their integration of FDD via Clockworks Analytics. This project started in 2014 and includes 6.8 million square feet across 47 buildings. We hear the project team, the rollout, and key inclusion of their maintenance operations from the ground up. Lees meer
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🎧 #143: Updates + AMA: June 2023
7 juni 2023 · 25 min
Episode 143 is the first new podcast after taking a break to reformat and expand our podcast platform. Updates + AMA will be a series of shorter episodes for us to discuss industry news, what's happening behind the scenes at Nexus, and to answer questions from our pro members. Towards the end, we have an ask me anything (AMA) where pro members can call in, and James and Rosy can answer your questions. Excited to start sharing these new ideas with you and please let us know what you think! Lees meer
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🎧 #142: Living buildings and where technology fits
16 maart 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
"The building industry can be the first to show the world what it looks like for an industry from within itself to transform itself in line with a sustainable future." Lees meer
—Lindsay Baker
My Highlights
Lindsay's background (4:45)
Occupant application now versus its inception (17:37)
Ideas from WeWork (24:51)
The Institute and living buildings (29:33)
How Lindsay thinks about smart building technology (37:04)
Performance criteria and change in the smart building industry (42:54)
Where the industry is headed (51:41)
Catching up with the sustainable buildings side (57:17)
Carveouts (1:03:18)
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🎧 #141: CRE Market Talk #2 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone
9 maart 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
"So many organizations want to sell ESG solutions, but very few have their own ESG statements, goals, or positions. If you don't want it, why would I?" Lees meer
—Mandi Wedin
Highlights
Joe's introduction (1:05)
Mandi's introduction (2:01)
ESG+R and why we care (4:21)
How DEI fits into ESG+R (12:26)
Greenwashing from the investor's perspective (17:01)
Green bonds (22:15)
More transparency in the EU (28:23)
How ESG+R pressures are impacting the smart building market (32:38)
Macro market update (40:21)
The best strategies for the technology marketplace right now (47:51)
Carveouts (59:33)
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🎧 #140: The value of occupancy data and reducing risks with leak detection
2 maart 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
"You can't just sell the data. It's got enormous value, but it needs to be manifested and taught in such a way that people can react to it." Lees meer
—Mike Moran
My Highlights
Mike's background (1:17)
Bayron's background (3:00)
Kilroy's assets and real estate strategy (4:03)
How the business case is made for smart buildings (7:36)
Communicating the ROI (12:17)
Budgets for technology (17:36)
Occupancy data as a foundational capability for smart buildings (20:50)
Many different sources of occupancy data (30:14)
How data is integrated into workflows (33:13)
Leak detection (42:16)
The marketplace for this use case (50:24)
Toilets leaking everywhere - solutions (55:09)
Carveouts (59:06)
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🎧 #139: Q1 2023 M&A Roundup with J³
23 februari 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
"Even with heat pumps and electrification, demand flexibility is a really big issue. You need controls to be able to use or roll back energy at the right times and that becomes increasingly important as you have more variability in terms of the generation of energy on the grid." Lees meer
—Joe Aamidor
Highlights
Jeanne's introduction (1:05)
Joe's introduction (1:52)
The economic environment that startups are in today (2:23)
What investors are actually looking for in a startup (8:55)
2023 predictions and hot takes (20:55)
M&A trends in smart buildings (31:30)
Daikin x Venstar (40:38)
Legence (Blackstone) x LORD Green Solutions(46:41)
GRESB x Asset Resolution (51:38)
Infogrid x Aquicore (53:31)
Carveouts (1:05:44)
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🎧 #138: The one where James gets interviewed
16 februari 2023 · 1 uur 31 min
"Building owners need a lot more than what siloed systems are capable of. Smart building solutions need to solve that problem by integrating with those systems, and in the next phases, adopting more of a horizontal architecture where building owners are not buying all of these redundant layers anymore from a bunch of different vendors. But if we're all speaking from different sheets of music, we're never going have that infrastructure and we're never going to be able to do these more sophisticated things with our buildings." Lees meer
—James Dice
My Highlights
Rosy's introduction (3:30)
Rosy on Shark Tank! (4:40)
Rosy getting hooked on smart buildings (7:42)
Nexus' Partner Program and why it's innovative (12:27)
Rosy's fun rapid-fire for James (20:58)
James' rapid-fire questions for Rosy (26:30)
What led James into the smart buildings industry (31:12)
How James came up with the idea of Nexus (43:12)
Early days of Nexus vs now (46:04)
Why Nexus is special (53:45)
The Nexus perspective on the state of the industry (1:00:55)
Conference critiques (1:08:25)
The Nexus' Creator Program (1:14:00)
Nexus in 2023 (1:20:51)
Carveouts (1:24:55)
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🎧 #137: Jigar Shah wants to fund your Virtual Power Plant
9 februari 2023 · 50 min
"We pay $10 billion per year for balancing the grid using natural gas, peaker plants, etc. when we could be paying that to households for those services instead." Lees meer
-Jigar Shah
My Highlights
How smart and decarbonized is Jigar's home? (2:30)
Business model innovation and unlocking decarbonization at scale (4:20)
Deployment-led innovation (5:50)
Moving from the 'what' to the 'how' (7:02)
An overview of the Loan Programs Office (8:52)
Where loans are targeted in the technology adoption lifecycle (14:30)
Getting real estate owners to use loans to decarbonize their buildings (16:07)
Virtual Power Plants (25:55)
Connecting buildings to data communication streams (35:10)
The scope of these incentives (44:35)
Carveouts (46:18)
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🎧 #136: Innovation and case studies of grid-interactive efficient buildings
2 februari 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
"Data transparency is a key part of unlocking stronger two-way communication. If you think about the utility side, usually the amount of data they have about where and when energy is being used stops at the substation level. So you might have a really connected smart building but the utility side doesn't have the data to make smarter decisions about reliability, planning, targeting customers for specific programs, etc. If we're able to pull the curtain back with that data, a lot better planning can be done." Lees meer
—Cindy Zhu
My Highlights
How smart is Cindy's home? (1:57)
Cindy's background (4:09)
DOE's role in the smart buildings industry (19:13)
Grid-interactive efficient buildings (25:28)
The practical side of GEB (40:25)
Utility innovation (45:44)
Open ADR (52:25)
Carveouts (57:19)
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🎧 #135: Transforming the market, with regulation and without
26 januari 2023 · 59 min
"Investors are thinking about the long-term value and risk of buildings and recognizing that high-performing buildings are lower-risk, which means higher value. All investment is going to be centered on the risks inherent with buildings and making sure that those buildings are future-proof and able to prosper in a decarbonizing economy." Lees meer
—Cliff Majersik
My Highlights
Cliff’s background (2:46)
Market transformation and how it works (6:08)
How often building performance is being accounted for today (8:03)
Policy - Utilities - Startups - Ecosystem - Owners - The roles of every player (11:02)
Response to regulation as being our only hope (16:51)
Policy tools for decarbonization in the US (20:07)
Energy codes (21:00)
Electrification (27:02)
Benchmarking (29:07)
Data access (37:13)
Green leasing (40:37)
How people can get involved (52:25)
Carveouts (55:15)
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🎧 #134: The building operator's role in decarbonization and digitization
19 januari 2023 · 49 min
“Tenants are struggling to achieve something that landlords have direct control over and that aligns with what landlords are struggling to do. Tenant submetering needs to be looked at and rethought." Lees meer
—Comly Wilson
My Highlights
Comly’s background (2:50)
About Enertiv (6:35)
2022 was about TenX and 2023 is all about OpX (18:21)
How we create a concept of carbon on-site with our operational teams (28:31)
How landlords align with tenants (31:08)
ESG 2.0 playbook and what is needed moving forward (34:45)
Carveouts (43:12)
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🎧 #133: How the building automation supply chain works (and when it doesn't)
12 januari 2023 · 1 uur 21 min
"We're still stuck dragging the anchor of the old proprietary software. Manufacturers need to listen to what the end-use customers are saying. They want open systems, product flexibility, and access to the data." Lees meer
—Leroy Walden
My Highlights
Leroy’s background (2:11)
Conversation Context (5:05)
Evolutionary phases of smart buildings from a BAS perspective (9:48)
About the ecosystem: product manufacturers, distributors, system integrators (15:26)
The nature of system integrators (34:35)
Getting out of the virtuous cycle world (1:04:11)
From the old ecosystem to a more accessible and scaleable one (1:08:56)
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🎧 #132: Refrigerants: the Cinderella of the Decarbonization Movement
5 januari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
“You can electrify your way out of natural gas usage and move to renewable energy to get yourself out of scope two emissions but refrigerants are going to be the main solution for electrifying both water and space heating, which means a significant increase in refrigerant usage." Lees meer
—Tristam Coffin
My Highlights
Tristam’s background (2:09)
Keys to sustainability in the grocery vertical (5:57)
Important smart building tech in this vertical and status of deployment (8:23)
About Effecterra (13:41)
Why are refrigerants important? (19:39)
The Montreal Protocol? (22:01)
US AIM Act (27:31)
Companies including refrigerants in their inventory today (29:35)
What are low-GWP refrigerants? (34:34)
Challenges with incumbent HVAC OEMs (42:56)
High-level solutions for existing and new buildings (49:34)
The state of technology for using analytics to find leaks (56:04)
Industry training and upskilling (1:02:48)
Carveouts (1:06:55)
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🎧 #131: Google's BOS Program & Creating Software-Defined Buildings
15 december 2022 · 47 min
“To really operate a building at scale, you need to be able to know what's happening across everything in that building at any one time and manage it in the same way you would a smartphone. Everything end to end in the building needs to be managed in a way that's much more IT-focused as opposed to OT. And so coming up with complete management of that is really important and that's where it leads onto software-defined buildings." Lees meer
—Kathy Farrington
My Highlights
Kathy’s background (3:00)
Technology stacks (5:55)
Review and status of Google’s smart buildings program (8:06)
Overview of the portfolio (12:46)
SBC conference keynote - Kathy's main message to the industry (14:51)
History of the BOS concept (17:52)
Status of implementation (25:31)
Lessons learned in recent new buildings projects (26:56)
The device fleet management concept and software-defined buildings (30:23)
Update on the application layer (38:10)
Update on the ontology effort (44:09)
Carveouts (45:06)
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🎧 #130: Allianz's smart buildings program and the importance of the BOS
8 december 2022 · 56 min
"For us, it's simpler to work with applications that go ontop of the BOS because we can control the information being accessed. Without the BOS, transparency is limited, which limits the number of use cases. Lees meer
By adding this data layer, we're dramatically increasing transparency and the possibilities of what else can easily be added on top."
—Grigor Hadjiev
Highlights
About Allianz (3:07)
How technology improves asset value (4:16)
Digitization vs Smart Building (6:46)
Defining ‘smart building’ (11:01)
Overview of the Allianz smart building program (12:39)
The importance of data and the data layer (38:09)
What are the key components of the BOS (44:55)
Next steps in the program (49:38)
Careveouts (53:38)
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🎧 #129: Decarbonizing New York City through Local Law 97
1 december 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
“The tools that have always been successful at instigating change are benchmarking and performance standards. Let's use those tools and evolve them to better fit the needs of today's definition of a high-performance building, which includes the carbon aspect, grid interactivity, and occupant responsiveness." Lees meer
—Molly Dee-Ramasamy
My Highlights
JBB's background (6:25)
Deep Carbon Reduction (7:55)
Local Law 97's impact on the industry (9:36)
Stories from the ground (18:15)
Flight to quality and repositioning of assets (26:23)
Evolution of these programs and Benchmark 8760 (35:29)
The biggest impediment of decarbonizing buildings in NYC (42:31)
Helping clients with other risks (51:59)
The shift in the design consulting role (56:45)
Carveouts (58:23)
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🎧 #128: James McGinniss on DER technology and the future of electricity consumption (Replay)
24 november 2022 · 53 min
“The grid is starting to look a lot like the internet. These IOT devices are distributed, digital, user owned and operated nodes. They can buy from the grid, they can sell from the grid, they can respond dynamically. Lees meer
These nodes are increasing ten, a hundred, a thousand fold over the next decade, which has really interesting implications for how we'll operate the grid going forward."
—James McGinniss
My Highlights
What are DERs? (8:59)
How DERs are changing the electric grid (10:11)
David Energy's founding story (12:47)
The three pillars of David Energy: the REP, the DR provider, and the supervisory control software platform (15:25)
What are retail electricity providers? (17:34)
The value of bundling efficiency with grid benefits (31:09)
How the bundling allows David Energy to handle risk better than other REPs (37:31)
Their innovative smart thermostat program (42:44)
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🎧 #127: CRE Market Talk #1 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone
17 november 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
“Don't spend your time with the laggards who don't yet see the need for (smart building technology). When they see it they'll find you. Go find owners with a need and then meet that need." Lees meer
—Mandi Wedin
My Highlights
The macro perspective of commercial real estate investment (5:04)
Types of real estate investment vehicles (10:12)
Different issues real estate owners currently face (14:19)
The solution for a frozen market (19:00)
Current property level needs (25:33)
Smart building fundamentals today (31:01)
What the current environment means for smart buildings specifically (36:45)
Impacts on smart building investment plans (45:13)
The bright spots and reasons for optimism (59:41)
Carveouts (1:05:00)
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🎧 #126: Decarbonization from the trenches
10 november 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
“There is another use case for smart building systems and for BAS, and it is critical input data for designing low-carbon systems for your building that if you don't have that data, you are not going to design your systems properly. Lees meer
They will probably be oversized and a lot more expensive than they need to be compared to as if you had good data to design on."
—Brad White
My Highlights
The shift from energy management to decarbonization (7:05)
Decarbonization roadmaps (14:36)
The role of carbon accounting (33:38)
Types of technologies that are vital (38:40)
Role of BAS and analytics (47:15)
Electrification - when does it make sense and how technology can help (50:48)
Tips for others on this journey (1:05:54)
Carveouts (1:09:55)
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🎧 #125: Sara Neff on the roadmap to absolute zero carbon
3 november 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
“A building can only run as efficiently as its engineer knows how to run it. Unless you have an engineer-first mindset, none of your energy efficiency efforts is ever really going to reap the rewards." Lees meer
—Sara Neff
My Highlights
About Lendlease (4:47)
Sara's role at Lendlease (6:25)
Roadmap to net zero (12:07)
Renewable procurement (22:22)
Energy efficiency and deep energy retrofits (41:10)
Carbon accounting today (48:48)
Change management and internal leadership (50:44)
Split incentive (56:32)
Carveouts (1:06:07)
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🎧 #124: Tearle Whitson Tells the Inside Story of Microsoft's Smart Buildings Program
27 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
“We can have all the technology in the world but dropping it into a building doesn't magically transform it. It ultimately is a tool. Your people can be empowered by this tool but it will never do everything for you. Lees meer
You have to set objectives, lean in and embrace the technology. You have to train your people and build the organization in a structure that supports it."
—Tearle Whitson
My Highlights
Tearle’s background (2:24)
"Teardown School" (19:49)
Smart buildings grew up around Tearle and an overview of the Microsoft smart buildings program (34:08)
How to run a remote operations center (43:15)
Best practices for implementing individual technologies (53:09)
Carveouts (1:12:35)
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🎧 #123: October 2022 M&A Roundup with J³
20 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
“There's definitely still venture capital money out there looking for great companies, especially in the smart building space. As long as you have a clear thesis and value proposition and your tech addresses a need of a building owner/operator, you're going to pass this deeper diligence with flying colors." Lees meer
—Jeanne Casey
My Highlights
The economic environment that startups are in today (4:46)
To what extent are smart buildings insulated from market trends (15:42)
Why downturn is a good time to build (24:10)
M&A trends in smart buildings (37:38)
Measurabl x Hatch Data (43:28)
Deepki x Fabriq (51:25)
EnergyCAP x Wattics (1:01:28)
White space for startups from a technology standpoint (1:05:48)
Carveouts (1:12:08)
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🎧 #122: Matt Ellis on the new business case for decarbonization and why platforms are vital
13 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
"Real estate owners buy and sell assets and drive yield. So we needed to reframe little "e", the discussion on electrons, and expand into big "E", environmental social governance. Doing so helped the real estate owner understand not commodities, but yield and risk in return." Lees meer
—Matt Ellis
My Highlights
Measurabl’s founding story (2:10)
From "meter" to "market" (7:59)
Journey to decarbonization (12:10)
Point solutions vs. platforms (26:23)
Why M&A and the platform approach are better than interoperability standards (33:38)
Acquiring Hatch Data and Wegowise (38:58)
Using customers' data to make the solution better (50:06)
Where to from here? (53:26)
Carveouts (58:08)
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🎧 #121: Stacy Smedley on the Road to Zero Carbon Construction and Where Technology Fits
6 oktober 2022 · 46 min
“Step one (of 3) on reducing embodied carbon emissions is to start thinking about if we have to build a building at all. So if we just stopped building right now, there's plenty of empty space for us to put all that square footage into that we say we need. And beyond that, we have more than we need." Lees meer
—Stacy Smedley
My Highlights
Quick overview of Stacy's background - lots of activities! (2:02)
A primer on emissions from construction - What is embodied carbon? (8:31)
LEED - why hasn't it scaled? (19:46)
What is the EC3 tool and how is it transforming construction? (25:53)
Future of EC3 - Where's this headed and the connection to digital twins (36:43)
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🎧 #120: Fixing Offsets and Decarbonizing Buildings with McGee Young
29 september 2022 · 1 uur 19 min
“They're doing the same thing they did last year, but now it's called decarbonization. But the reality is, is that they are decarbonizing buildings. The work that we've been doing for 20 years is the right work to be doing we just don't have a metric to measure ourselves against and a way to value that work." Lees meer
—McGee Young
My Highlights
The problem and why McGee started WattCarbon (14:35)
The transition from energy management to carbon (21:34)
Connecting real-time carbon emissions data from the grid to hourly granular energy data (26:08)
How most people get their emissions today (29:14)
How to get to scope 2 emissions from kW hours used at a certain hour (24:52)
Data platform and API strategy (39:49)
The importance of transparency in the calculations and data (44:40)
Creating a marketplace for offsets from buildings (49:14)
The disconnect between net zero targets and actual energy being used (53:28)
Carveouts (1:13:46)
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🎧 #119: How service robots fit into the smart building ecosystem
22 september 2022 · 1 uur 13 min
“We see an expansion of robots doing 80% of a job in the service sector, allowing humans to do what's complex."
—Greg Scott Lees meerMy Highlights
SRT Labs (5:00)
Use cases for robots (11:17)
"Smart" definitions in the context of robots (19:49)
Robotic product adoption (23:14)
Problems unique to the federal sphere (41:58)
Map-based data collection (46:54)
The parallels and connection points with smart buildings (55:42)
SRT's full offering and how it’s helping campuses (1:01:43)
“Platforms” (1:05:05)
Carveouts (1:08:03)
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🎧 #118: Simplifying decarbonization with Aaron Block
15 september 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
“There's a lot of complexity that goes into building a technology that simplifies things for people." Lees meer
—Aaron Block
My Highlights
Aaron’s background (2:50)
The #1 way to unlock decarbonization of commercial buildings (17:19)
The problem is complexity (28:16)
How energy as a service differs from the ESCO model (38:55)
Fuel switching (50:43)
Current tech making it simple (55:05)
Carveouts (1:03:11)
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🎧 #117: 4 Steps to Sustainable Indoor Air Quality
8 september 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
“We can accomplish both sustainability and IAQ, but we need to think holistically. And we need to think in terms of layered strategies and frameworks." Lees meer
—Christian Weeks
Highlights
enVerid's founding story (4:53)
How enVerid's whitepaper came to be (18:53)
Step 1: define goals (26:18)
Defining acceptable IAQ and which metrics to monitor (32:01)
CO2 (38:24)
Step 2 - clean indoor air (43:35)
Step 3 - optimize ventilation (49:44)
Step 4 - monitor, validate, control (54:10)
Determining ROI (1:02:37)
Carveouts (1:07:32)
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🎧 #116: Integrating "Smart" Into the Construction Process with Charlie Buscarino
1 september 2022 · 58 min
“In the beginning of their journey to a smart building, many of our clients are wondering what they need to buy to check the box. Lees meer
We've flipped that so that the conversation looks at the experiences, outcomes, and capabilities that are meaningful to the organization. Then we can look at the technology."
—Charlie Buscarino
My Highlights
Charlie’s background (2:43)
Asking the smart building question (9:04)
Use case scoring and prioritizing (15:45)
Division 25 (22:51)
The device layer (27:51)
IDL platform marketplace (35:05)
More on division 25 (40:34)
Case study (50:18)
Carveouts (55:14)
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🎧 #115: The role of the smart building consultant with Bruce Duyshart
25 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
“My 80/20 rule is that it's 20% of technology—and there are a lot of technologies in a smart building. And it's 80% about people and human engineering." Lees meer
—Bruce Duyshart
My Highlights
Bruce’s background (1:11)
Meld's key projects (13:24)
Horizontal architecture: converged network, data platform, apps (16:44)
How Bruce defines a smart building (23:01)
Bruce's 80/20 rule (27:50)
The consultant’s role across the phases of a project (39:40)
Consultant vs. designer vs. MSI vs. commissioning agent (53:58)
Carveouts (1:05:53)
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🎧 #114: Decarbonized Buildings Require Better Energy Modeling Tools
18 augustus 2022 · 50 min
“I don't know as much as a tax consultant by a long shot, but for most cases with TurboTax, 90% of the cases, I was good. The 10% of the cases, I'm definitely not good and I will need a tax consultant and all of that good stuff. That was really what I wanted to build for the energy modeling community, where for the 90% of the cases we can get pretty darn close." Lees meer
—Sandeep Ahuja
My Highlights
cove.tool today (4:11)
Building a successful sustainability consulting firm (9:47)
Selling to architects (17:15)
The difference between early-stage models and detailed later-stage models (24:35)
Key products and features and why they’re important (30:06)
Including costs in energy modeling (34:25)
How electrification is made easier with an energy model (44:42)
Carveouts (46:29)
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🎧 #113: The Data Required for The Third Phase of ESG
11 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
“Why isn't everybody that's using energy accurately collecting data on the source of their energy and also the use of their energy? And then saying, what is the accurate carbon footprint of that energy? And what, if anything, should I be doing about it?" Lees meer
—Lincoln Payton
My Highlights
The founding story of Cleartrace (5:35)
Why data is so important for decarbonization (11:22)
How we go from old standards to gaining access to hourly energy and carbon data (27:15)
How data can be used to plan out this roadmap (48:35)
Integration into the real estate tech stack (54:55)
Carveouts (58:32)
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🎧 #112: Demystifying 'Zero Trust'
4 augustus 2022 · 49 min
“Complacency is no longer a viable option. If you're looking around and you're seeing your third parties getting carte blanche access to your networks inside of your building, it's time to do something about it. If you have open ports exposed to the public internet, it's time to do something about it. There's a better way to do it." Lees meer
—Jim Anthony
My Highlights
How were things done before Zero Trust (3:52)
Zero Trust architecture (8:31)
How this concept applies to who is taking responsibility (16:06)
Use cases for the end user (20:07)
Products that aren't really Zero Trust (25:37)
The Journey to Zero Trust (29:29)
Connecting ZTA back to the Horizontal Architecture (40:20)
Carveouts (44:03)
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🎧 #111: Tenant apps: the why, what, and how with Prasan Kale
28 juli 2022 · 53 min
“I was building buildings. I was running a large portfolio. And the number one brick wall I kept running into was technology silos. There were 8 to 10 things I had to buy for everyone of those buildings, and they didn't talk to each other..." Lees meer
—Prasan Kale
My Highlights
Founding and acquisition story of Rise (5:48)
What is VTS? (10:32)
VTS acquired Lane Technologies (13:32)
Use cases for integrations (21:31)
Beacon technology (30:43)
Tenant app impact on getting people back in the office (34:49)
The analytics VTS provides (44:30)
Carveouts (49:18)
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🎧 #110: The evolution of the access control system with Lee Odess
21 juli 2022 · 47 min
“In 1973, the value proposition was to keep bad people out. If no one has been shot in your building, it's working. That still remains, but the industry is evolving from that core principle." Lees meer
—Lee Odess
My Highlights
The history of access control systems (3:26)
Components to access control systems (7:42)
The Six Phase Changes Shaping Access Control (24:23)
The verticalization of occupant experience transforming the access control system (30:49)
Business models in the access control of tomorrow (37:59)
Carveouts (44:15)
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🎧 #109: Demystifying wireless technology for CRE
14 juli 2022 · 1 uur
“One perspective is I don't see wires anymore. Still, in the backend, there are lots of wires and there are lots of different wireless connectivity and frequencies and technologies that support building systems. Lees meer
So the term wireless can refer to a number of technologies. And I think that's where people will get confused in terms of, what is wireless? Cellular vs. WiFi vs. LoRaWAN or other protocols being used to transmit data wirelessly."
—Greg Jones
My Highlights
Montgomery Tech’s background (4:05)
General trends in wireless technology today (10:43)
Celular (12:41)
DAS (16:04)
Wifi (28:27)
CBRS (35:36)
5G (42:29)
LoRaWan (46:59)
How to make decisions in this environment (49:31)
Carveouts (55:00)
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🎧 #108: Mid-2022 M&A Roundup with J³
7 juli 2022 · 1 uur 23 min
“The environment that we've been in for many years and that we are currently in and heading into is very relevant for what's going on in the space, beyond the fact that smart buildings is highly fragmented and there is natural momentum towards M&A and rolling up a lot of these point solutions or single players from just an industry perspective." Lees meer
—Jeanne Casey
My Highlights
The general environment that we're existing in (4:10)
M&A trends in smart buildings (20:25)
Measurabl x Hatch Data (27:14)
Arcadia x Urjanet (50:28)
The Independent Data Layer and aggregation providers (1:05:20)
Carveouts (1:18:01)
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🎧 #107: Balancing Embodied and Operational Carbon Emissions
30 juni 2022 · 50 min
“As we draw down the operational carbon side of things, our embodied carbon piece of the pie is going to be closer to 50% of overall carbon emissions from the building sector." Lees meer
—Carmel Pratt
My Highlights
Bright Power (6:18)
How to think about what percentage of a building owner's carbon footprint is operational vs embodied (8:58)
How to balance embodied carbon and operational carbon (20:14)
Key takeaways and ways the industry needs to change (29:34)
Carveouts (46:45)
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🎧 #106: A day in the life of a digitized, decarbonized building
23 juni 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
"I like the buildings industry because it's a physical manifestation of our values. A building that is truly net zero, set up to have composting, electric vehicle charging, bike racks that really protect your bike, is a physical manifestation of how much you value your employees. There's nothing better than taking the concept of bettering the environment and putting it into something real that you can touch." Lees meer
-Kat West
My Highlights
How Kat and Drew got into sustainability (12:22)
Day in the life of a digitized and decarbonized building (17:14)
Transit (25:24)
Food (33:41)
Waste (37:45)
Space (42:55)
How the size of a room impacts equity and inclusion (53:19)
Carveouts (1:06:23)
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🎧 #105: What the small buildings market has been missing with Tanya Barham
16 juni 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
“The reason why less than 10% of the commercial building market actually use building automation can be summarized by just one factor. I could show you 20 images of every building control software or fault diagnostic software out there and it's exactly the same story. Lees meer
Whether it's a small IOT or big medicine, it's a product designed by college-educated building engineering who really think that there's somebody in a button-down Oxford in an air conditioned office doing nothing but driving those controls."
—Tanya Barham
My Highlights
Defining community choice aggregators, virtual power plants, and DERMS (18:14)
Transitioning from PECI to CEL (32:06)
What small buildings need (41:32)
The procurement process made simple (1:03:06)
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🎧 #104: New York City's unique RTEM program
9 juni 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
"Why would you get something that tracks consumption but doesn't include fault detection and diagnostics? Something that doesn't also include predictive analytics and performance optimization?" Lees meer
—Ryan Baxter
My Highlights
Why NYC real estate is so unique (8:49)
Top 5 NYC PropTech startup pitfalls (13:57)
NYSERDA's Real Time Energy Management Program (RTEM) (32:26)
RTEM's Hackathon (58:04)
Carveouts (1:04:20)
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🎧 #103: Nuveen's top technology priorities
2 juni 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
“In the landscape of proptech there is such a lack of data and lack of access to our own data and our potential ability to make better investment and operational decisions." Lees meer
—Jeanne Casey
My Highlights
About Nuveen and your role (6:52)
An outsider’s perspective on the insides of real estate (13:03)
The state of smart buildings and smart buildings venture capital (25:41)
Thoughts on “head of innovation” roles (41:42)
Carveouts (57:56)
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🎧 #102: Unpacking 2022's major themes with Newcomb & Boyd
26 mei 2022 · 57 min
“One of the things that COVID showed us is that so many people's buildings are not responsive to occupancy. So no matter how well you designed the building with efficient devices, not responding to occupancy is like leaving something on and walking away from it. It's basic sustainability of provide what's needed and don’t waste resources." Lees meer
—Donny Walker
My Highlights
Defining Low Voltage (2:53)
Newcomb & Boyd's background (7:55)
IBcon and the integration of smart building and sustainability (16:55)
Specifying the converged network (26:25)
Specifying the Independent Data Layer (40:45)
Carveouts (54:27)
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