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December 1, 2012

Crowd sourcing energy efficiency in buildings

Facilities operators, building service suppliers, building design and engineering professionals, equipment providers, building occupants, and even the general public can all play a role in building […]
December 1, 2012

Comfort management & Energy Efficiency. The key to both is people.

For building operators comfort is what it’s all about. Comfort keeps tenants, and that keeps buildings full. How does comfort and energy efficiency work together? Traditional […]
December 1, 2012

Occupant engagement saves energy in 153 Toronto buildings

Attended the Race to Reduce Awards this past week at The Metro Convention Centre. Civic Action’s Race to Reduce involved 153 GTA buildings, totaling 63 million […]
December 1, 2012

A warm welcome in Toronto at PM Expo

Thank you to all that stopped by our booth at Construct Canada/PM Expo, and to the Toronto Chapter of the CaGBC for their warm welcome for […]
November 27, 2012

Sexy building design, provocative advertising

The architect can make a building sexy, but BuiltSpace can give her personality too!
November 25, 2012

Rethinking Facility Management Software

New technology changes everything.   Traditional computer software for facility management has automated traditional paper processes, but has failed to produce significant cost efficiencies. Enter cloud […]
November 24, 2012

The problem with building energy efficiency

Society has identified the need to make buildings more sustainable, and governments around the world have set goals such as Vancouver’s “20 by 2020” goal to […]
November 24, 2012

Energy transparency

Helping occupants, operators, suppliers, and other stakeholders to understand building energy consumption is necessary, but not sufficient, to achieve efficiency goals. At the end of the […]
November 24, 2012

QR codes: The new building code

Location specific QR codes connect occupants to building services. Mobile technology can improve occupant engagement and operational efficiency by providing better information about building condition when […]
November 24, 2012

Using QR codes in buildings

Scan the above code for location and asset specific access to the data you need in your buildings.
July 5, 2017

The paratrooper — Flawless execution requires checklists not super-humans

One thing that surprised me when I spent time with Canada and America’s elite soldiers was that they were certainly intelligent and athletic, but they weren’t […]