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Rethinking Real Estate
Rethinking Real Estate

Dror Poleg–Author and Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Innovation Council in New York–discusses his new book on how technology is changing the way humans work, live, eat, shop, and travel.

Built Environment Regulatory Round Up
Built Environment Regulatory Round Up

Trends and geographies of ordinances, regulations, and requirements affecting commercial real estate buildings.

RealCrowd podcast at CREtech AI event
RealCrowd podcast at CREtech AI event

"The challenge is how do you get out of that sea of data into making decisions, with AI, that are actually going to build the value, not the drudgery of analyzing."

Introducing Gridium Alpha – Zero CapEx Energy Projects
Introducing Gridium Alpha – Zero CapEx Energy Projects

Gridium Software builds value from what you currently have. Our new Gridium Alpha offering develops upgrade projects for your building, measures the results, and sells these harvested efficiency resources back to the Grid. All with zero upfront costs.

A WeWork butterfly
A WeWork butterfly

Look past the one liner tweets and big money clickbait headlines and you'll see the ground is shifting beneath your building.

Hybrid seeds & energy harvesting
Hybrid seeds & energy harvesting

What does an academic study from 1943, on the diffusion of adoption of hybrid seeds by farmers in Iowa, tell us about harvesting energy efficiency in 2019?

TOU periods shifting in your building’s favor
TOU periods shifting in your building’s favor

Time-of-use periods are shifting at California investor owned utilities, creating a tailwind for commercial building energy OPEX.

Cybersecurity in a world of steel and glass
Cybersecurity in a world of steel and glass

Fred Gordy–Director of Cybersecurity at Intelligent Buildings–discusses the growth in BMS hacking attacks and NIST-based frameworks for defense.

EVO testing tool points the way to the future of energy efficiency
EVO testing tool points the way to the future of energy...

By providing a standardized, transparent, and fair way to gauge the accuracy of automated M&V techniques, EVO points the way to a flourishing ecosystem of innovative meter-based efficiency programs.

New HDD updates to ENERGY STAR’s 2018 scoring model
New HDD updates to ENERGY STAR’s 2018 scoring model

The EPA will introduce Heating Degree Days back into the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager scoring process for Office buildings, and the changes will be implemented July 21, 2019.

Building & using building technology
Building & using building technology

Atul Khanzode–Technology and Innovation Leader at DPR Construction–discusses digital twins, designing for efficiency, and deploying technology.