I had a great chat with Brian Coogan at Ethos Engineering recently. We have been connected on LinkedIn for some time now, but finally met in person at the Smart Buildings Show this year. I mentioned I was looking at facilitating a collaboration to look at how the technology landscape might be sliced/diced, although prompting
This diagram was from an article on smart building enablement in Building Magazine by the teams at Alinea (now Turner & Townsend alinea) and Arup in 2019. It was one of the first I read as part of my ‘deep dive’ into this space and found it super helpful. Re-reading it, however, I’m reminded by
The folks at smart research analysts Memoori facilitated the collaboration with Vanti and LMG behind this Version 1 Smart Building Project Canvas above. What’s interesting about Vanti and LMG is that they are Master Systems Integrators (MSIs) that could be seen as being ‘The Application Providers’ from the 3 types of MSIs highlighted by Nexus
This diagram of the smart building tech stack is by Rob Huntington at emeseye (prounounced MSI, i.e. Master Systems Integrator). That gives an idea of where Rob is coming from. It is akin to the one from James Dice and his Nexus Labs community I shared earlier (see here), but is slightly more vertical and
Back in the mid-aughts, I hosted a podcast series as a follow-up to the Connecting Marketing book I co-wrote with Dr Paul Marsden. One of the themes I explored was ‘brand storytelling’ and that included speaking to Annette Simmons, author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins, The Story Factor and growing list of other
Not everything I post about on here is directly related to smart buildings. I have highlighted Gennaro Cuofano‘s 4 Week MBA site because I haven’t seen any similar Freemium resource guide/course in the smart building space. Nor his kind of ‘In a Nutshell’ explanations of key concepts, e.g. the Cloud as a Service (CaaS) Business
Back in 2021 John Gleeson and Jonathan Treece (now at Barclays) from Arcadis presented their How Smart is Smart: a point in time session at the Smart Buildings Show that looked at how the increasing number of physical and digital accredition schemes for buildings were overwhelming investors with a logo war. That’s still arguably the
Before the pandemic I co-wrote a book with ex-Google brand planner turned academic Lazar Dzamic on Strategic Content Marketing. It followed on from a series of e-publications and events I curated supported by The Drum magazine and the leading trade and award bodies in advertising and marketing. The series looked at latest thinking and best
I didn’t go to many of the conference sessions at the Smart Buildings Show this year because I was mostly there for the networking. But one of the few I did attend was the No Regrets – How Smart Buildings Are Valuable in Uncertain Times one by Matthew Marson from JLL Technologies. Matthew had kindly
For a large part of this year I have been speaking to stakeholders across the smart building ecosystem about retrofitting. That has included facilitating round tables that I have been writing about for Smart Buildings Magazine (see here and here), as well as curating panels including the Why is Retrofit Not Taken More Seriously in
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