Strategy, Costs & Procurement
What does a smart building consultant do?
What a smart building consultant does at each project stage, which deliverables to expect and where the role stops.
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Practical guidance for owners, designers and operators working on connected, efficient and digitally ready buildings and developments.
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Smart Buildings
What is Power over Ethernet and where can it be used in buildings?
What Power over Ethernet is, where it suits building devices and which design checks to require.
Energy & Sustainability
How much energy can smart building controls save?
What published controls savings figures mean and how to build a credible estimate for one building without double counting.
Smart Districts & Cities
Who owns and manages the data in a smart district?
How rights, roles and access to district data are allocated among owners, occupiers, operators and suppliers.
Data Integration & Ontologies
What is Brick Schema and why is it used in smart buildings?
What Brick Schema is, why owners use it, what it does not do and how to keep a Brick model maintained.
COBie & Digital Handover
What is COBie and what is it used for?
What COBie is, what it is not and how to define the exchange before requesting it on a project.
Smart Buildings
What smart building systems does a hotel actually need?
Which hotel systems are core, conditional or optional, and how to avoid paying twice for overlapping room-control and platform functions.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between N, N+1 and 2N redundancy?
What N, N+1 and 2N redundancy mean, why the labels can mislead and how to trace the redundancy actually provided.
Cybersecurity & Resilience
How do smart visitor management systems work?
How smart visitor management works from invitation to exit, and how to handle data, temporary access and failures.
Operations & Productivity
Which facilities management tasks can be automated?
Four tests for deciding which facilities tasks to automate, support with better information or leave manual.
Data Integration & Ontologies
How do BIM and IFC relate to operational building ontologies?
How IFC information connects to operational ontologies, what has to be added and how to control the mapping.
Energy & Sustainability
How does fault detection and diagnostics reduce building energy waste?
How fault detection and diagnostics finds energy waste, what the evidence shows and why the resolution process matters most.
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