Smart Buildings
What is a smart building and how does it work?
Understand how connected systems, useful data and clear operating procedures help a building respond to its occupants and operators.
Insights
Practical guidance for owners, designers and operators working on connected, efficient and digitally ready buildings and developments.
Start here
Short foundations for the questions that usually come first.
Digital Twins & BIM
What is the difference between BIM and a digital twin?
Compare BIM and operational digital twins, understand where they overlap and decide which information your building actually needs.
Strategy, Costs & Procurement
What should a smart building tender specification include?
A practical guide to specifying outcomes, interfaces, data rights, responsibilities, testing and support so smart building bids can be compared.
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Strategy, Costs & Procurement
What should a smart building service-level agreement include?
What a smart building SLA should cover: scope, priorities in building terms, restoration, security, data and exit.
Strategy, Costs & Procurement
How do you retrofit smart technology in an occupied hotel?
How to retrofit smart technology in an occupied hotel by phasing around revenue and guests, with handback checks.
Data Integration & Ontologies
How do you choose a data platform for a property portfolio?
A five-step, evidence-led method for choosing a portfolio data platform, including contrasting pilots and an exit test.
Energy & Sustainability
What is the Smart Readiness Indicator for buildings?
What the EU Smart Readiness Indicator assesses, its optional legal status and how to use it as a planning tool.
Strategy, Costs & Procurement
What is a master systems integrator and when is one needed?
What a master systems integrator does, when one is needed and where the appointment sits contractually.
Strategy, Costs & Procurement
How do you compare smart building vendors and system integrators?
How to evaluate smart building products and system integrators separately, with criteria, gates and scripted demonstrations.
Data Integration & Ontologies
What should a building data API specification include?
What a building data API specification must cover beyond endpoints: meaning, behaviour, security, change and acceptance tests.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is PUE and what does it tell you about data centre efficiency?
What PUE measures, how the boundary and method change the result, and which metrics to track alongside it.
Cybersecurity & Resilience
How do you secure a smart building against cyberattacks?
How to secure a smart building's control systems as operational technology through an owner-led programme.
Operations & Productivity
How can remote monitoring reduce site visits and call-outs?
How remote monitoring reduces site visits when triage, authority, secure access and contracts change with it.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What are the main infrastructure requirements for a data centre?
The seven things a data centre needs to work and the business decisions on load, growth and downtime that must come first.
Data Integration & Ontologies
What is an independent data layer in a smart building?
What an independent data layer does, how to test its independence and why the operating model comes before the platform.
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