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🎧 #101: Virtual Engineering with Hank
19 mei 2022 · 53 min
"Virtual engineering is an inevitability. It's not a, 'there may be a breakup of this vertically integrated stack, this monolithic stack that everybody owns.' It will happen." Lees meer
—Zach Denning
Highlights
How the software layer improves upon the existing control system (6:42)
Building re-engineering (8:35)
Combating the diminishing returns argument (14:33)
Demystifying machine learning (25:11)
How Hank fits into JLLT's product strategy (34:53)
Dealing with skepticism and the desire to control things manually (42:19)
Carveouts (50:01)
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🎧 #100: Decarbonization, blockchain, and the Building OS with KPMG and Prescriptive Data
12 mei 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
“The current state of climate reporting is a bit like choose your own adventure, but also grade your own paper." Lees meer
—Tegan Keele
My Highlights
Why carbon accounting and reporting is important (10:15)
Why blockchain is needed (27:23)
Nantum OS and what a building OS is (45:44)
Carveouts (1:02:32)
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🎧 #099: Duke University's Decarbonization and Digitization Journey
5 mei 2022 · 1 uur 13 min
“When I ask my team to put together an energy efficiency project, it's their job to get off the energy island and go get integrated into the other conversations that are happening when we plan a project." Lees meer
—Casey Collins
My Highlights
Casey's background (2:43)
Duke's campus (5:40)
Duke's decarbonization plan (9:20)
The role of retrofits (18:32)
The building operations world is drowning in disorganised data (22:19)
Price on carbon and the business case for technology (36:54)
Technology from a workforce standpoint (53:55)
Carveouts (1:07:17)
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🎧 #098: Louise Monger on Schneider Electric's approach to digital buildings
28 april 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
“I recently read a great quote, 'Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.'" Lees meer
—Louise Monger
My Highlights
Louise’s background (2:10)
What Louise has learned coming from the client side to vendor side (24:41)
Trends in real estate technology (29:20)
‘Open’ systems and SE’s approach (44:13)
Role of the MSI and SE’s approach (49:04)
Software partnerships and SE’s approach (56:26)
Building Graph: Schneider’s IDL product (1:01:04)
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🎧 #097: Indoor air quality strategies and standards across 50 million square feet
21 april 2022 · 56 min
“Joe Allen made this very clear business case around cognitive function that any real estate sales person with a pulse could pick up and say, 'Hey, if you're going to double cognitive function with better air quality, Class A offices must offer this increased air quality." Lees meer
—Ben Myers
My Highlights
IAQ today (15:08)
The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge and what this means for the industry (20:31)
How BXP and Senseware started working together for water conservation (24:29)
BXP's IAQ standards (39:42)
Carveouts (50:48)
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🎧 #096: Cory Clarke on why View assembled the full stack
14 april 2022 · 57 min
“The big caveat is that it's a fully vertically integrated stack, but it's composable and open." Lees meer
—Corey Clarke
My Highlights
Summary of Cory's work at RXR Realty (8:50)
Cory’s contrarian take on the future of tenant apps (19:10)
Why View bought WorxWell and their product strategy today (22:05)
How landlords can measure occupant experience (44:36)
Carveouts (52:15)
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🎧 #095: Antony Slumbers on what it means to own a smart building
7 april 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
“Just knowing about real estate in the real estate industry is now necessary but it's not sufficient, because fundamentally the industry is moving from being product-based to service-based." Lees meer
—Anthony Slumbers
My Highlights
Overall real estate trends for techy types (16:22)
The current sustainability trends in decarbonization and changes in the real estate industry (46:53)
Smart Assets defined (54:48)
Skillsets and mindsets we need for the transition from dumb assets to smart assets (57:00)
Carveouts (1:03:38)
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🎧 #094: The ESG data gap with Ryan Knudson
31 maart 2022 · 55 min
“Carbon neutrality is a big lift and technology is a cornerstone of that. The way we look at our assets now is from a supply and demand perspective. We've really been able to hone in our demand side through investments in building automation technology." Lees meer
—Ryan Knudson
My Highlights
Macerich’s sustainability target and plan (11:09)
ESG reporting and the emerging so-called “data gap” (22:25)
New technology that can help close the gap (42:43)
Carveouts (50:36)
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🎧 #093: Mesa's simple smart buildings kit
24 maart 2022 · 56 min
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What problem was Sidewalk Labs trying to solve when it created Mesa? (8:56)
Use cases for Mesa (16:07)
How Mesa collects tenant feedback to optimize the heating and cooling of buildings (28:47)
Mesa's success with schools and offices in reducing their energy consumption (33:22)
How Mesa delivers a quick ROI to buildings (49:27)
Carveouts (51:09)
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🎧 #092: AMP Capital's Data-Driven Maintenance Program
17 maart 2022 · 1 uur 37 min
“We realized that we needed to go out to tender nationally for our BMS and HVAC service contracts. We needed to transition these contracts from what was traditionally a plan-preventive-maintenance approach to a much more data-driven approach that ensured we created a collaborative engagement between our service contractor, the analytics vendor, and AMP. Lees meer
Without that collaboration, we realized that just deploying analytics was not going to get us to the outcome that we wanted to get to."
—Tom Balme
My Highlights
The situation AMP was in when attempting to shift to data-driven maintenance (5:36)
How BMS companies typically sell analytics and where that goes wrong (17:01)
Reactive work orders costing hundreds of thousands per year and how they’ve mitigated that (27:57)
Solution 1: Maintenance contract standards (1:00:19)
Solution 2: Implementing best practices for collaboration between analytics and BMS (1:14:05)
Outcomes from implementing these solutions (1:28:49)
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🎧 #091: The power of occupancy data with Rags Gupta
10 maart 2022 · 45 min
“Our mission is to make the built environment people-aware. Our vision is to replace passive infrared. That, by definition, is a horizontal vision. By definition, you can't have applications for all those different types of end users." Lees meer
—Rags Gupta
Highlights
Butlr's founding story (13:22)
Butlr and their products (21:00)
Why Butlr chose to go the API-first route (25:23)
Use cases and Butlr partners (29:03)
Carveouts (40:59)
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🎧 #090: The democratization of building controls
3 maart 2022 · 52 min
“By making controls simple and transparent every day and for every building, you massively increase energy efficiency without even talking about analytics or AI." Lees meer
—Alex Rohweder
My Highlights
Before the acquisition of J2 Innovations (3:20)
Why Siemens wanted to acquire J2 Innovations (9:23)
What separates J2 Innovations (12:44)
Where does fin stop and J2's customers' products begin? (16:09)
Democratization of building controls (19:11)
Alex's definition of "platform" (33:25)
What Alex is excited about this year (41:07)
Thoughts on mergers and acquisitions and how it can lead to more simplification (47:55)
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🎧 #089: M&A Roundup with Joe Aamidor
24 februari 2022 · 57 min
“The fragmentation is a very real issue. I don't see it necessarily resolving anytime soon, just because of a lot of these other trends in the market." Lees meer
—Joe Aamidor
My Highlights
Why are we talking about this? (3:02)
Deal #1: IBM buying Envizi (9:39)
Deal #2: View buying RXWell and IoTium (24:19)
Deals #3: Occupant experience apps (37:13)
Overall Trends (54:14)
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🎧 #088: From connected commissioning to connected construction
17 februari 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
“I've been giving presentations on why commissioning agents should be using data analytics and commissioning since 2013. It's completely unsatisfying to me to do it the other way. And still the vast majority don't... But the construction industry is different. By the end of the project, they're saying they'll never do another project without analytics. That transformation will happen much faster." Lees meer
—Jim Meacham
My Highlights
Altura’s founding story (2:35)
Why is commissioning even a thing (7:27)
Pioneering analytics-based commissioning (15:15)
Keys to making analytics-based commissioning work in the construction process (32:48)
How analytics can benefit the entire construction process (41:10)
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🎧 #087: Andy Frank on the Independent Data Layer
10 februari 2022 · 50 min
“You've got control systems in the building and interesting applications up in the cloud. And then there's something in the middle and it's really gnarly and messy and ugly and a pain in the butt to work with. That's what we do." Lees meer
—Andy Frank
My Highlights
Novant's founding story (2:47)
The challenges Andy sees in the smart building market today (14:36)
Where Andy sees the smart building market going (37:44)
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🎧 #086: Building Science + Data Science = Zero Carbon Future
3 februari 2022 · 51 min
“You're never going to fix the decarbonization challenges we have today with just data and adjusting active systems. You also have to fix the envelope. And vice versa: envelope only approaches don't solve it either. Lees meer
We need data science AND building science."
—Craig Stevenson
My Highlights
Building science + Data science = Zero Carbon future (11:37)
Building science deeper dive (16:14)
Data science deeper dive (25:04)
How to deliver this in real buildings (36:21)
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🎧 #085: A carbon reduction plan for every building on the planet with Christopher Naismith
27 januari 2022 · 32 min
“What we need is a carbon reduction plan for every existing building on the planet. And we can do that immediately." Lees meer
—Christopher Naismith
My Highlights
What did you do as an energy engineer / consultant? (3:27)
After target setting and benchmarking, we need to scale up the building decarbonization process. Where are most organizations at today? (5:19)
What are all the ways in which the process is not scalable today? (7:26)
What is Audette? (8:40)
How to fund net zero when it doesn't have a quick payback (16:34)
Does the ESCO or energy as a service model solve this? Why or why not? (23:31)
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🎧 #084: Finding the signal in the IAQ noise with Kaiterra and DLR Group
20 januari 2022 · 1 uur 24 min
“Humans are great sensors, but we're not very good at dashboarding anything. Having this IAQ data can become a change management tool and it could really impact the culture of the occupants in the space." Lees meer
—Shona O'Dea
My Highlights
Founding story of Kaiterra (6:52)
Shona on the history of IAQ practice (9:16)
Making sense of the wild wild west of IAQ - state of the industry (23:08)
Making the business case - current best practice? (33:20)
Should it be a stand-alone stack or integrated with building systems? (45:01)
What is an integrated IAQ strategy? (56:14)
Optimizing for IAQ and sustainability (1:01:23)
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🎧 #083: QuadReal's quest for a Building OS with KODE Labs
13 januari 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
“Stop talking, start doing. The tools are in place. The vendors exist. The folks that understand how to bring this stuff to life exist. So start doing it." Lees meer
—Thano Lambrinos
My Highlights
QuadReal's smart building strategy (8:42)
What is a Building Operating System? (17:30)
Thano's "utopian state" (29:24)
Why they say that the "operators love it"? (45:29)
Command and control capabilities (59:29)
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🎧 #082: Demand flexibility in the Long Tail of small buildings with Extensible Energy
6 januari 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
“I like to say 'Use what your mama gave you.' Your building is already a battery. Every building is a battery." Lees meer
—Deepa Lounsbury
My Highlights
History of Extensible Energy (7:07)
History of demand management → load flexibility (9:14)
Why the focus on the typically ignored, 100k square foot and under buildings? (24:24)
Case studies / real-life examples (50:51)
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🎧 #081: Carlos Flores on how NABERS transformed the real estate industry
16 december 2021 · 1 uur 15 min
"Real estate companies are not going to go bankrupt because they're inefficient. It's actually just a blip on the bottom line compared to much bigger drivers. Those business drivers are the keys to tackling climate change..." Lees meer
—Carlos Flores
My Highlights
History of NABERS (6:02)
The way things were 15 years ago (19:30)
Drivers that have created business transformation (22:30)
The way things are now and what this change means (41:46)
Future of NABERS, including how the US is different (54:44)
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🎧 #080: Colleen Morris on unlocking building level energy data
10 december 2021 · 53 min
“My position is that in this space, when you're really getting systemic you need to be connecting all three (Buildings, Utilities, and Policymakers) in ways that we aren't yet. That's where we'll succeed or fail is how we make the right connections across these sectors." Lees meer
—Colleen Morris
My Highlights
Lots of innovation in only two of the three stakeholders (Utility, Policymakers, and Buildings (5:23)
How we met and unpacking Colleen's quote (9:31)
All the ways in which utilities make it hard to use utility data (15:29)
How data access at scale is an energy equity issue (29:43)
Why scalability is so important in the Long Tail of small buildings (35:03)
What are the requirements for open access to utility data? (38:59)
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🎧 #079: Unpacking Stanford University's Smart Buildings Program and Road to Net Zero
2 december 2021 · 1 uur 13 min
“We needed an incredible sophistication at the building level, but we also need to do this in a way that is not just reliable, but also makes sense from an affordability standpoint and more and more makes sense from a sustainability standpoint." Lees meer
—Lincoln Bleveans
My Highlights
Why is building technology important? To the U, to students, to other stakeholders. (7:29)
Energy & Sustainability - unpack the goals and initiatives (net zero by 2050) (27:06)
What use cases and tech have you implemented? (to get to 90% carbon savings (35:34)
How have you made the business case for investment? (46:46)
What new tech are you excited about right now? (59:22)
Lessons learned - it starts with the people (1:06:44)
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🎧 #078: Stacy Smedley on the road to zero carbon construction and where technology fits
24 november 2021 · 45 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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🎧 #077: Jon McFarlane on an open source building operating system and enabling true automation
17 november 2021 · 55 min
“You can build anything on top and change things rapidly. Because of the platform business model, there's an ecosystem, so things are continuously evolving." Lees meer
—Jon McFarlane
My Highlights
Founding story of PlaceOS (4:32)
Other industries besides office that are being disrupted by the internet (8:25)
What is PlaceOS? (13:00)
Platform approach - what is a platform (29:44)
Why open source? (35:27)
Hot takes on LinkedIn (43:36)
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🎧 #076: The evolving role of the Master Systems Integrator (MSI)
11 november 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
“Those that adapt and recognize what's coming will continue to live on and those who want to keep their Blockbuster stores open with videos on the shelves, they're not going to be here in a few years' time." Lees meer
—Rob Huntington
My Highlights
Mike Brooman on defining the MSI and the types of stuff they do: it's about mastery of technology and people skills to be the glue that brings all the systems together (1:24)
Brian Turner on what an MSI is and when they should get brought in (7:58)
Rob Huntington on the MSI role, whether the BMS contractor should play it, when they should get involved, and whether the MSA is a different role (16:38)
Mike Brooman on whether silos should continue to exist or whether there should be one person responsible for all tech (22:19)
Mike Brooman on whether MSIs are consultants - they're not (26:52)
Rob Huntington on the challenges and requirements for the design engineers (32:25)
Ruairi Barnwell on defining roles in the construction process (36:23)
Brian Turner on the ongoing service aspect of the MSI's role (43:21)
Rob Huntington on the BOS software and whether that company should be separate from the MSI (50:25)
Rob Huntington on the business case for the MSI role - it's just cheaper (54:51)
Sabine Lam from Google on what progressive building owners need out of MSIs (57:53)
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🎧 #075: Anto Budiardjo on Smarter Stacks and solving the integration problem to enable digital twins
4 november 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
“I know people have different views on what digital twins is all about. I think that if digital twins are fundamentally an integration challenge then the most pressing problem is how to make things work with each other." Lees meer
—Anto Budiardjo
My Highlights
Reflecting on 30ish years of integration efforts (5:54)
The smarter stack framework, how it came about, why it's valuable, and how it describes a new paradigm for our industry (18:05)
Why is integration so hard? (32:34)
How connection profiles help solve the integration problem (37:05)
An everyday analogy that explains connection profiles really well (49:12)
How Padi relates to connection profiles and how the two interact (56:06)
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🎧 #074: Andrew Rodgers on what "open" really means
28 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
“You hear so many arguments defending the status quo.” Lees meer
—Andrew Rodgers
My Highlights
Andrew’s answer to my favorite question is the pain-consumer distance and how the market isn’t self-regulating
The difference between open ecosystems and open source
How it all comes down to capabilities that are unlocked and personal preference
Open vs. interoperable
Where open source fits
Walking up the stack from the edge and what open means at each level (hardware, BACnet, APIs, platforms)
Why closed ecosystems won’t help us realize our future vision as an industry and how slime molds have it all figured out
The VOLTTRON open ecosystem and how it innovation happens with that model
How open-source can solve our workforce shortage
Examples of other tech from other industries going from closed to open and how open source is free like puppies.
How open is Niagara?
The vision for VOLTTRON and how AceIOT deploys it for their clients
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🎧 #073: Michael Grant on the latest trends in occupancy data, IAQ, APIs, and Overlay Software
21 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
“APIs are like toothbrushes: everybody's got one but nobody wants to use anyone else's." Lees meer
—Michael Grant
My Highlights
Michael's background and COO role at multiple companies (1:07)
What is Metrikus? (9:24)
How Metrikus plays as an overlay and independent data layer (14:03)
Making the business case and whether technology providers should capture the full value their solution provides (19:14)
How Michael thinks about the data model component (26:28)
Reflection on our recent LinkedIn discussion on the quote "APIs are like toothbrushes..." (29:45)
Insights on the latest trends in occupancy data for office buildings (41:01)
AirRated and how it's different (47:26)
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🎧 #072: Kilroy Realty and Intelligent Buildings on cybersecurity and the roadmap to enabling smarter buildings
14 oktober 2021 · 1 uur
“We were lucky enough that early on we built a team that included facilities management, physical security, sustainability, and IT. Lees meer
And we said, 'What are our common goals? Where can we reinforce each other? What are all stakeholders' needs and how can we solve them together?'"
—Bayron Lopez Pineda
My Highlights
The origin story of the Kilroy smart buildings program, how IB helped set it up and how it led to the creation of the OT team (6:51)
Deep dive into network convergence (13:18)
What the roadmap looks like for existing buildings (22:31)
Paying for the journey and how they think about it (29:43)
What is required from a workforce standpoint for a real estate company to take full responsibility for OT? (33:46)
What applications are you enabling? (41:41)
How do you think about tenant engagement apps and what are your approaches to implementing them? (50:04)
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🎧 #071: DEI Today in the Smart Buildings Industry
7 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion isn't something that can be an add on. It's not a new part of your business. It should be integrating into your business. How do your core values align with your DEI efforts, your business practices, etc? Everything is literally connected." Lees meer
—Tara Turk Haynes
My Highlights
The status quo of DEI and the smart buildings industry today (3:11)
The value of diversity to the industry (10:51)
The talent war, the process of hiring and building diverse teams (22:10)
The action phase of the conversation. Takeaways and actions we can all take (37:11)
Audience Q&A (51:54)
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🎧 #070: Will Cowell de Gruchy on simplifying IoT, core use cases, and founding Infogrid
30 september 2021 · 54 min
“You need no more evidence than the fact that McKinsey estimates that its largest practice within three years will be sustainability to know that the ESG transformation is the new digital transformation." Lees meer
-Will Cowell de Gruchy
My Highlights
What is Infogrid (11:30)
The founding story (12:07)
What Infogrid does today and how much traction they have (18:07)
To what Will attributes Infogrid's incredible growth (25:14)
The top 5 use cases Infogrid deploys and a few of the weirdest they've done (38:06)
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🎧 #069: Dana Guernsey on building a grid-interaction platform
23 september 2021 · 43 min
“The system was originally built to adjust supply, to meet demand. Everything about it was built that way, the market design, the physical infrastructure, everything. Now we're evolving it to also adjust demand to meet supply. Supply is becoming more and more intermittent, demand is becoming more and more flexible. Lees meer
The whole thing is just getting up-ended and for building owners, they can't just close their eyes and not realize that the building is very much part of that."
—Dana Guernsey
My Highlights
What is Voltus? (6:03)
How the product works, the tech stack, etc (13:29)
How it works financially (21:08)
The keys to doing advanced supervisory control (23:22)
The keys to monetizing flexibility in the electricity markets (28:32)
Why should building owners care? (33:07)
Dana's bold predictions on where grid-interaction is headed and one crazy battery stat (35:33)
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🎧 #068: Ben Myers of BXP on decarbonizing 50 million square feet
16 september 2021 · 1 uur 18 min
“There's this line in Hamilton, Lees meer
'Let's have a drink, the four of us. Tomorrow there'll be more of us.'
And when I started out in green buildings, it definitely felt like there were just four of us. Today there are many more of us on this journey."
—Ben Myers
My Highlights
What sustainability means to each stakeholder and how to message it to them (6:54)
Ben's working theory about what it takes to move the market and the 5, 15, 30, 50 rule (15:32)
How BXP tracks their portfolio consumption, emissions, targets, and progress (18:11)
How other cities can improve on NYC's Local Law 97 (20:44)
Keys to success for scaling sustainability in a large portfolio (23:55)
Ben's great take on how to balance competing energy and IAQ goals (32:20)
BXP's lessons learned from building green since 2008 (40:48)
Ben's focus(es) for 2021-22 (51:37)
The ESG reporting, standard, and framework nightmare and Ben's thoughts on improving it (1:07:53)
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🎧 #067 - Trevor Pering on 3 ways Google is enabling Enterprise IoT
9 september 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
"When the iPhone came in, the web was already there. With building systems, it's the other way around. You had a lot of technology in buildings, then we bolted the web on afterwards. Lees meer
That's a different direction, so it's trying to correct that and bring more web concepts in."
—Trevor Pering
My Highlights
Trevor's focus at Google and differentiating the 3 types of IoT (5:56)
Deep dive on DAQ - device automated qualification (13:26)
Deep dive on MUD and the requirements for IoT networking (24:42)
UDMI (Universal Device Management Interface) standard with device<>cloud communication (34:58)
Trevor's take on where we are on the disruption curve and how he chooses partners based on whether their business model will hold back innovation (46:54)
Trevor sums up all three projects (55:03)
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🎧 #066: Cara Carmichael on Our Roadmap to Zero Carbon Buildings
2 september 2021 · 50 min
"I am hopeful. I feel like we're coming together around this issue in a way that I've never experienced in the past. This is something that's within our power to do something about." Lees meer
—Cara Carmichael
My Highlights
The three reasons we need to decarbonize buildings (7:09)
How the net-zero definition has changed over time (9:39)
Part one of the roadmap: benchmarking and disclosure (12:38)
Part two of the roadmap: MEPS and/or building energy codes (16:35)
Part 3 of the roadmap: retrofitting 4% of our buildings per year to zero-carbon ready (24:12)
Part 4 of the roadmap: Electrification (28:48)
Part 5 of the roadmap: Building Grid Interaction (32:43)
Part 6 of the roadmap: Solar and storage behind the meter (37:47)
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🎧 #065: Troy Harvey on the Quantum Digital Twin Standard and enabling fully autonomous buildings
26 augustus 2021 · 54 min
“There's never really been an API for buildings. And this is an impediment to every single corporation, every startup, every investor, the whole industry." Lees meer
—Troy Harvey
My Highlights
An update on PassiveLogic (1:43)
Where we need to go and how Quantum helps get us there (9:29)
What is the Quantum Digital Twin Standard? (13:43)
Why Quantum was needed when we have Haystack, Brick, etc (19:00)
What it means to embed Quantum into devices (25:16)
The new concepts Quantum brings to the ontology effort (29:05)
Revisiting the levels of autonomy and how Quantum helps (35:52)
Deep, nerdy, over-my-head explanation of what "Typed AI" is (39:57)
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🎧 #064: James McGinniss on DER technology and the future of electricity consumption
19 augustus 2021 · 52 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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🎧 #063: Ryan Morris and Marti Ogram on Turntide's Technology for Sustainable Operations
12 augustus 2021 · 47 min
“The issue with energy efficiency is that while it may be civilization's largest collective problem, for any individual business it's like their 12th biggest problem." Lees meer
—Ryan Morris
My Highlights
How Turntide was founded as Software Motor Company (7:25)
How the Turntide motor tech differs from what's in buildings today (11:09)
Ryan's concept of engineering clu-de-sacs (16:55)
The story of Riptide's founding out of Cisco in the early 2010s and why it improved upon the legacy BMS (18:01)
Where Turntide is headed with recent acquisitions and funding rounds (27:47)
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🎧 #062: Jon Clarke on leading Dexus' smart buildings program
5 augustus 2021 · 53 min
“I see of lot of people buying apps before they bought the smart phone. So our smart building strategy is to first build the smartphone foundation."
—Jon Clarke Lees meerMy Highlights
Jon's experience as a contractor, consultant, and customer; how they're different and can work together (12:45)
How and why the industry will shift from technology getting pushed on owners to owners doing the pushing. (21:33)
Dexus' smart building strategy (26:01)
What they've learned from 5+ years of FDD and where they're headed with it (29:33)
3 places the industry needs to innovate in the FDD process (39:47)
Jon's experience setting up an entire touchless office building BEFORE the pandemic (45:32)
Jon's strategy he calls convergence of projects (53:55)
The state of the smart buildings industry as Jon sees it (57:19)
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🎧 #061: Why technology in buildings is decades behind
29 juli 2021 · 42 min
“You built a building 25 years ago, and the stuff you put in there, it’s still there.” -Keith Berkoben of Google"For consumer facing technology, you know, people talk about the market working in all kinds of mysterious ways, but if you don't have a feedback path, the market doesn't work.”
- Andrew Rodgers of ACE IoT Lees meer“So you have this fundamental difference of perspective, where the people who ran the companies saw technology is a risk and a cost. And then you had the markets saying, well, I'm not going to go into that market and develop anything technological, because I can't get enough uptake. And between that and the .com bust…”
-Joe Gaspardone of Montgomery Technologiesr“So you need this IT/OT hybrid skillset that really a lot of organizations just don’t have today.”
-Kyle Tooke of ThoughtWireMentions and Links
Episode 5 with Troy Harvey of PassiveLogic (1:30)
Episode 29 with Trevor Sodorff and Keith Berkoben of Google (10:45)
Episode 19 with Tyson Soutter of Siemens (12:31)
Episode 18 with Logan Soya of Aquicore (15:14)
Episode 24 with Mike Brooman of Vanti (18:31)
Episode 20 with Andrew Rodgers of ACE IoT (24:25)
Episode 26 with Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft (26:26)
Episode 22 with Kyle Tooke of ThoughtWire (29:47; 34:40)
Episode 27 with Joe Gaspardone of Montgomery Technologies (30:37)
Episode 30 with Matthew Vogel of Microsoft (35:42)
Episode 15 with Deb Noller of Switch Automation (38:00)
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🎧 #060: Jacinda Lofland on success with Tenant Engagement apps
22 juli 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
“You have the people that are using the buildings and those are the people that we all spend time thinking about, but a lot of time it's just trying to guess at what they want. Lees meer
And I just think that there's this real opportunity, with the technology that we have available today, to hear directly from them on what they want."
—Jacinda Lofland
Highlights
How real estate is changing: it's no longer just a box... it's a product people use (7:15)
How engagement was done in the past, what is net promoter score, and how apps can help (16:57)
Use cases for tenant engagement apps (21:39)
Two major criteria for success with tenant apps and keys to success (31:42)
Roadmap to rolling out a tenant app (38:41)
Perspective on getting people to actually use the app: more important that there's optionality (43:05)
Whether the back of the house tech should merge with front of the house tech (48:28)
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🎧 #059 - Cisco DeVries on gamifying grid flexibility and why fighting climate change depends on it
15 juli 2021 · 54 min
“If you get utility rate payers to act together like a symphony and reduce their energy a little bit at these key times, that net effect is actually remarkable." Lees meer
-Cisco DeVries
Highlights
Cisco's response to John Oliver's segment on PACE (6:25)
What is OhmConnect? (12:38)
The two primary problems OhmConnect had to solve: engage consumers on one side and sell their aggregated demand on the other. (17:38)
Why grid interaction in California is mostly focused on residential buildings right now. (25:21)
The two reasons we need grid interaction and why every building will need to do it (28:15)
the public policy side of this and what needs to change to unlock this concept worldwide (45:40)
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🎧 #058: Darlene Pope on the history of smart buildings, the 3-30-300 rule, and where we're headed
8 juli 2021 · 58 min
“So you start seeing this cross pollination, worlds colliding, the traditional digital workplace applications with the traditional smart building solutions. Lees meer
We started working with our clients on helping them connect the dots on both sides of the house and the value. Not just from an operations standpoint, but from a space management standpoint,and most importantly, from an employee experience standpoint. That's when you start to really get to my definition of a smart building.
My definition of a smart building is everything's connected. It isn't just HVAC and lighting and elevators. It's not just base building and systems, but when you can connect into the workplace and more importantly, start connecting to the occupants, that's really when the smart experience starts to happen. "
—Darlene Pope
My Highlights
The first definition of a smart building (3:41)
The three early phases of our industry (11:16)
Darlene on the 3-30-300 rule and how to quantify the benefits of technology (14:41)
What Darlene learned at WeWork and how she pulled people and system silos together (27:14)
Why she joined Planon to knock down silos (31:56)
Defining IWMS (37:05)
What is Women in PropTech and how we can increase diversity in the industry (53:42)
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🎧 #057: Mandi Wedin on ESG+R as a driver for smart building technology
1 juli 2021 · 47 min
“We take that value creation reframe and we look at it through two ROI lenses. The traditional finance lens, which is return on investment, to understand the financial benefits. Lees meer
And then the second is a relevance assessment lens, which is the risk of ignoring your risk of being left behind. And so when we apply these two ROI perspectives, you find opportunities to create the value, to innovate."
—Mandi WedinMy Highlights
What is ESGR and what are some examples (6:01)
How ESG, and the E specifically, are changing real estate (12:38)
How the real estate technology community can be more inclusive (19:09)
How ESG is driving tech investments (23:59)
How real estate professionals think about buying technology (32:39)
The way to think about technology ROI in the ESG era (36:03)
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🎧 #056: Sabine Lam unpacks Google's Building Operating System (BOS) program
24 juni 2021 · 57 min
"You feel like you're tackling an impossible problem because you're looking at such a broad set of solutions or in our case, now we're looking at such a broad set of manufacturers, and so many devices in our building, and every building is different. How can you ever address that? Lees meer
We'll just address everything and then move forward with whomever is willing to move forward with you. It could be at a regional level or a certain manufacturer who understands what you want to accomplish, they totally buy into it, and they move forward.
Some others, not so much. You keep them up to date, but you don't hold back, you just move forward with whomever is willing to move forward. So that absolutely applies with the Building Operating System solution that we have today and our involvment with manufacturers and within Google as well.
We'll see how different regions move at different speeds, different construction teams move at different speeds, different facilities operation teams embrace the solution more than others. We're large enough that we always find someone who is interested.”
—Sabine LamMy Highlights
How Sabine and Google helped change the building materials supply chain and how that is happening in building technology now (5:35)
The Google BOS mission statement (14:38)
The three specific goals of the BOS program and how it's being driven by cyber security (27:44)
Sabine's take on IT vs. OT. Hint: it's all on the IT network. (31:37)
The role of the MSI and contractors in setting up the BOS and our frustration with data mapping (40:15)
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🎧 #055: Ruairí Barnwell on designing and commissioning smart buildings and IAQ
17 juni 2021 · 56 min
"So you live or die by the data at the end of the day, not the sticker on the front door."
—Ruairi Barnwell Lees meerMy Highlights
We need Building Intelligence Groups in every city (7:13)
How we can overcome the challenges with the traditional design process (21:00)
How owners are seeing the need for the IDL and how Nexus is spurring collaboration and community (26:08)
Summarizing the past year of IAQ and rating system confusion (31:45)
How building owners/landlords and tenants are investing in IAQ data (37:59)
IAQ snake oil, or as Aaron Lapsley says, Hygiene Theater (43:36)
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🎧 #054: Ben Birnbaum on why solving climate means solving controls
10 juni 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
"So that's how we got here... we were focused on enabling this massive energy retrofit opportunity or enabling people to implement this zero costs down energy savings. But then I realized there's no point if buildings don't have the infrastructure in place for that.”
—Ben Birnbaum Lees meerMy Highlights
Why Ben is a superconnector (14:27)
Ben's 3 "Holy Grails" or massive opportunities: Project/Asset Financing, No CapEx Solutions, and Fixing Controls (26:24)
Why now is the time for this industry to transform (43:24)
Ben's advice to startups in our space (52:18)
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🎧 #053: Jim Whalen reflects on the past and future of Boston Properties' digital buildings program
3 juni 2021 · 57 min
“The point of Nirvana is to have a self-tuning, self-commissioning building that is completely adapting itself (based on) the outside conditions and internal conditions of a building. That is clearly an endgame here that we're all after, but that is only one aspect of what you're talking about in terms of the investment you make.”
—Jim Whalen Lees meerMy Highlights
How Jim thinks about building tech in three interrelated buckets (13:49)
The landlord-tenant split incentive and how it makes technology a challenge and how we're very early in solving it (17:47)
A smart buildings endgame (23:44)
Boston Properties' data journey and how they've applied what they've learned and how they're looking for the next set of tools (30:38)
How Jim is thinking about analytics as the next toolset (43:50)
Jim's keys to the success they've had in the last 10 years digitizing buildings (52:10)
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🎧 #052: Rob Huntington on the shift to Converged Networks, MSIs, and the "sun setting on the BMS"
27 mei 2021 · 58 min
“The sun is setting on building management systems as we know it and change is coming through building operating systems and packaged equipment control, which when delivered will eliminate the need for field fitted BMS control altogether.”
—Rob Huntington Lees meerMy Highlights
How Jim thinks about building tech in three interrelated buckets (13:49)
The landlord-tenant split incentive and how it makes technology a challenge and how we're very early in solving it (17:47)
A smart buildings endgame (23:44)
Boston Properties' data journey and how they've applied what they've learned and how they're looking for the next set of tools (30:38)
How Jim is thinking about analytics as the next toolset (43:50)
Jim's keys to the success they've had in the last 10 years digitizing buildings (52:10)
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