Cybersecurity & Resilience
How can access control integrate with other building systems?
How access control integrates with HR, visitor, lift, BMS and fire systems, and which system holds authority in each case.
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Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What power and cooling infrastructure do GPU servers need?
How to size circuits, upstream capacity and cooling for GPU servers from the manufacturer's configuration, at the failure state.
Digital Twins & BIM
What is a building digital twin and when is it worth investing in?
What a building digital twin is, the capability levels on offer and how to decide whether one is worth the investment.
Smart Districts & Cities
What is a city digital twin and what can it be used for?
What a city digital twin is made of, what it can be used for and how to keep observed, modelled and proposed information apart.
COBie & Digital Handover
Who is responsible for producing and checking COBie data?
Who produces, checks and accepts COBie data, with a field-level responsibility matrix and owner-side custodian.
Data Integration & Ontologies
Who should own building data and control access to it?
How to allocate rights and access by type of building information, including personal data and connected-product data.
Digital Twins & BIM
What is the difference between a project information model and an asset information model?
How a project information model differs from an asset information model, and how to plan the transition at handover.
Smart Districts & Cities
What is a smart city and how does it work?
How a smart city works layer by layer, from physical infrastructure to governance, and why service outcomes come first.
Energy & Sustainability
How do smart water meters and leak detection systems work?
How smart water meters and leak detectors work together, how to use night flow and how to map detection to response.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is AI infrastructure?
What AI infrastructure includes, from compute and data to governance, and why the workload should be defined first.
Smart Districts & Cities
What is a smart district?
What makes a district smart, which services it shares across buildings and who usually owns them.
Energy & Sustainability
How can smart lighting reduce energy consumption?
How smart lighting reduces energy use through schedules, occupancy and daylight control, and how to keep savings persistent.
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