A Paradigm Shift for Buildings

Beyond Buildings - A podcast by Nicolas Waern

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Technology

In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the energy guru, question-asker, engineer, analytics nerd - James Dice!

He is like Moses in the BAS/BMS/Energy space and brings his followers to the promised land. Possibly, by separating the hardware from the software and into the open we go.

We talk about:

  • Being humble, standing on the shoulders of giants and learning from the past
  • Emerging analytics platforms, and the similarities with Apple and Android
  • Deep digital twins and the separation of hardware and software
  • Lock-in effects, ecosystem approaches utilized for good
  • Edge and cloud strategies for smarter buildings
  • The Vitruvian Virtues

James discusses the reality as it is with an overlay paradigm and that there are millions of buildings that will stay the same, not having access to cutting edge tech in a while. So we’ll be having old underneath, new at the top, with an overlay approach that will probably go on for the next 25 years, if not more.

And why are we doing this? Why are we trying to optimize buildings? Is it for the sake of energy efficiency? People? The planet even? Listen and find out!

- Listen in and hear what the world was like Pre-COVID and what a discussion between building automation nerds sound like!

And finally a big thank you to James, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:
Platform of Trust whos helping companies turn data into actionable insights!

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Companies mentioned:

  1. Terry Herr of Intellimation
  2. Automated Buildings and Ken Sinclair
  3. SkySpark
  4. Troy Harvey and Passive Logic (see Nexus newsletter #14 for my take on them)
  5. Dave Lapsley of Econowise, creator of Sentinll and Bubll
  6. SWEGON
  7. Go-IoT
  8. Zynka BIM / Zynka Group
  9. Phillip Kopp of Conectric
  10. Wired Hut
  11. Hub API systems
  12. Platform of Trust
  13. Stream Analyze
  14. Ekkono
  15. Brad White’s classic article on the 3/30/300 rule
  16. Clayton Christenson and the Jobs To Be Done framework
  17. James’s essay on Digital Twins and the 2 main jobs to be done