Welcome to the new Buyers Tower! With thousands of companies selling to the smart building industry, it can be overwhelming and confusing to find the right fit. Here youāll find the industryās top technology vendors and service providers, vetted by Nexus Labs. Take a look around and check back as we add more partners and publish category deep dives.
Market transformation partners are working on permanently changing the business cycle by aligning incentives. These partners focus on policy development, R&D, education, outreach, financial incentives, technical assistance, and network-building.
Talent and labor shortages will prevent the industryās transition to decarbonized and digitized buildingsāunless the workforce builders have something to say about it.
We talk a lot about the flashy new technology required for smart buildings. But we must always remember that when we're changing how things are done, people make it happen. Buyers recognize the importance of specialist rolesāeither on their staff or outsourced as members of their team of service providers. The Vital Roles are the service providers that buyers canāt do without.
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Applications sit on top of the data layer and provide outcomes to users through mobile apps, web apps, or process-based applications. Buyers need persona-specific, contextually integrated applications that are designed around digitizing and automating human workflows.
The data layer sits on top of the device and network layers as the data infrastructure for any smart building software application. The applications need an ontology to understand all the data they're consuming, including all the underlying devices and how they fit together into a system of systems.
The Device Layer is where the digital meets the physical world. Itās where the digital device controllers liveāeach with their own unique inputs, outputs, and life safety functions. Our devices have immense teamwork potential, but they often sit in silos.
Learn how standardized HVAC sequences of operation, building automation systems (BAS), cooling tower optimization, and analytics help commercial real estate portfolios improve energy efficiency, reduce HVAC complaints, and achieve repeatable building performance at scale.
Learn how Texas Tech University built an in-house HVAC controls team to eliminate sequence drift, optimize building automation systems (BAS), reduce energy costs, and improve HVAC performance through recommissioning, controls programming, and fault detection.
Learn how UC Irvine uses operational commissioning, SkySpark, building automation systems (BAS), fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), and HVAC optimization to improve energy efficiency and building performance across a large campus.
Learn how RTX is using continuous commissioning, monitor-based commissioning (MBCx), and intelligent building controls to optimize HVAC performance, uncover energy savings opportunities, and scale energy management across a global portfolio of manufacturing facilities.
Get a fast, plain-English overview of HVAC sequence optimization: what it is, why energy 'drift' quietly drives up commercial building costs, the three levers building owners actually pull (sequences, set points, and schedules), and a 12-step playbook plus benchmarking framework for making optimization a permanent part of building operations.
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