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🎧 #100: Decarbonization, blockchain, and the Building OS with KPMG and Prescriptive Data May 12, 2022

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“The current state of climate reporting is a bit like choose your own adventure, but also grade your own paper."
—Tegan Keele

My Highlights

Why carbon accounting and reporting is important (10:15)
Why blockchain is needed (27:23)
Nantum OS and what a building OS is (45:44)
Carveouts (1:02:32)

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🎧 #099: Duke University's Decarbonization and Digitization Journey May 05, 2022

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“When I ask my team to put together an energy efficiency project, it's their job to get off the energy island and go get integrated into the other conversations that are happening when we plan a project."
—Casey Collins

My Highlights

Casey's background (2:43)
Duke's campus (5:40)
Duke's decarbonization plan (9:20)
The role of retrofits (18:32)
The building operations world is drowning in disorganised data (22:19)
Price on carbon and the business case for technology (36:54)
Technology from a workforce standpoint (53:55)
Carveouts (1:07:17)

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🎧 #098: Louise Monger on Schneider Electric's approach to digital buildings Apr 28, 2022

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“I recently read a great quote, 'Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.'"
—Louise Monger

My Highlights

Louise’s background (2:10)
What Louise has learned coming from the client side to vendor side (24:41)
Trends in real estate technology (29:20)
‘Open’ systems and SE’s approach (44:13)
Role of the MSI and SE’s approach (49:04)
Software partnerships and SE’s approach (56:26)
Building Graph: Schneider’s IDL product (1:01:04)

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🎧 #097: Indoor air quality strategies and standards across 50 million square feet Apr 21, 2022

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“Joe Allen made this very clear business case around cognitive function that any real estate sales person with a pulse could pick up and say, 'Hey, if you're going to double cognitive function with better air quality, Class A offices must offer this increased air quality."
—Ben Myers

My Highlights

IAQ today (15:08)
The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge and what this means for the industry (20:31)
How BXP and Senseware started working together for water conservation (24:29)
BXP's IAQ standards (39:42)
Carveouts (50:48)

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🎧 #096: Cory Clarke on why View assembled the full stack Apr 14, 2022

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“The big caveat is that it's a fully vertically integrated stack, but it's composable and open."
—Corey Clarke

My Highlights

Summary of Cory's work at RXR Realty (8:50)
Cory’s contrarian take on the future of tenant apps (19:10)
Why View bought WorxWell and their product strategy today (22:05)
How landlords can measure occupant experience (44:36)
Carveouts (52:15)

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🎧 #095: Antony Slumbers on what it means to own a smart building Apr 07, 2022

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“Just knowing about real estate in the real estate industry is now necessary but it's not sufficient, because fundamentally the industry is moving from being product-based to service-based."
—Anthony Slumbers

My Highlights

Overall real estate trends for techy types (16:22)
The current sustainability trends in decarbonization and changes in the real estate industry (46:53)
Smart Assets defined (54:48)
Skillsets and mindsets we need for the transition from dumb assets to smart assets (57:00)
Carveouts (1:03:38)

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🎧 #094: The ESG data gap with Ryan Knudson Mar 31, 2022

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“Carbon neutrality is a big lift and technology is a cornerstone of that. The way we look at our assets now is from a supply and demand perspective. We've really been able to hone in our demand side through investments in building automation technology."
—Ryan Knudson

My Highlights

Macerich’s sustainability target and plan (11:09)
ESG reporting and the emerging so-called “data gap” (22:25)
New technology that can help close the gap (42:43)
Carveouts (50:36)

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🎧 #093: Mesa's simple smart buildings kit Mar 24, 2022

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My Highlights

What problem was Sidewalk Labs trying to solve when it created Mesa? (8:56)
Use cases for Mesa (16:07)
How Mesa collects tenant feedback to optimize the heating and cooling of buildings (28:47)
Mesa's success with schools and offices in reducing their energy consumption (33:22)
How Mesa delivers a quick ROI to buildings (49:27)
Carveouts (51:09)

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🎧 #092: AMP Capital's Data-Driven Maintenance Program Mar 17, 2022

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“We realized that we needed to go out to tender nationally for our BMS and HVAC service contracts. We needed to transition these contracts from what was traditionally a plan-preventive-maintenance approach to a much more data-driven approach that ensured we created a collaborative engagement between our service contractor, the analytics vendor, and AMP.
Without that collaboration, we realized that just deploying analytics was not going to get us to the outcome that we wanted to get to."

—Tom Balme

My Highlights

The situation AMP was in when attempting to shift to data-driven maintenance (5:36)
How BMS companies typically sell analytics and where that goes wrong (17:01)
Reactive work orders costing hundreds of thousands per year and how they’ve mitigated that (27:57)
Solution 1: Maintenance contract standards (1:00:19)
Solution 2: Implementing best practices for collaboration between analytics and BMS (1:14:05)
Outcomes from implementing these solutions (1:28:49)

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🎧 #091: The power of occupancy data with Rags Gupta Mar 10, 2022

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“Our mission is to make the built environment people-aware. Our vision is to replace passive infrared. That, by definition, is a horizontal vision. By definition, you can't have applications for all those different types of end users."
—Rags Gupta