Smart building success needs a new & improved system integration model: Here’s why
There’s an ever-growing momentum behind property owners deploying smart building tech projects across their portfolios. However, it is not without struggle. While owners and operators are increasingly recognizing the business value of emerging technologies, it’s often the integration with existing systems that is the biggest…
Why you need to extract more value from your building data and analytics
It is largely understood that analytics software for buildings provides unmatched power to support the processes—such as energy management, commissioning, and data-driven maintenance—needed to operate a modern portfolio of commercial buildings. For us analytics nerds, it finally feels like we’re not alone in preaching about…
Building automation needs innovation big time (and it’s all coming together finally)
2020 may go down as the year when longstanding issues in the BAS industry ignited a whole new level of interest. While building automation has been hallmarked for years by outdated software, lack of openness & an obsolete business model, property stakeholders have fully woken…
How to get started with data-driven building operations
This is the second post in the series on leveraging data to optimize building performance and operate your entire portfolio as one. In our first post, we talked about the importance for property owners and operators to have real-time visibility into operations and why it’s…
How property owners can overcome information barriers in FDD evaluation
We’re seeing a surge in Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) solutions across the buildings industry. This is unsurprising, as the role of FDD in achieving operational efficiency is becoming more and more clear. What is surprising is the pace of adoption in the CRE landscape—it…
A new era of property operations: The Future is all about unifying data for real-time operational intelligence
Today I’m excited to announce that Facilio has been chosen by ICD Brookfield Place to deliver a connected and sustainable built environment. ICDBP, a joint venture between the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) and Brookfield Properties, and one of Dubai’s premier lifestyle and business destinations opened doors to…
Visibility Into Building Operations Is Anything but Straightforward, Here’s Why
The world is in a bit of a unique place right now. And for us in property operations it is filled with too many questions: when to reopen, how to adapt to the new SOPs, which technology to adopt, and the list goes on! That…