Case study: 214 Retail Stores [Marketplace #7]
Hey friends,
When I heard that 2 facilities staff members are responsible for 300 retail stores and 20 distribution centers, it blew my mind. I can barely remember to change the filter in my house’s furnace, let alone manage thousands of rooftop units distributed across the country.
A lack of staffing resources is the norm, rather than the exception, in the long tail of 6 million buildings (in the US alone) under 50,000 square feet. As we covered in our 2021 white paper, The Untapped 87%, to decarbonize the buildings sector we need to remove the complexity in deploying controls to all buildings, not just the largest and richest minority that technology and service providers typically focus on.
Scaling controls solutions to all buildings is vital to society at large and the businesses that own and occupy them. Scalability will be enabled when the whole complexity stack comes together and is fit to each exact subset of this heterogeneous market.
This week, we have a case study coming out of Canada’s retail industry that illustrates the simplicity we need. We tell the story of how Sleep Country uses a network of connected thermostats and Brainbox AI’s supervisory control software to do more with fewer people and march towards their goal of net zero by 2040.
Case Study Data:
- Technology Categories Mentioned: Supervisory Control, HVAC Control
- Vendor: Brainbox AI
- Number of Buildings: 214
- Total square footage: 1.1 million square feet
- Project Has Been Active Since: 2021
- Results: In the first 49 of the 214 locations, the deployment delivered a 24% cut in energy consumption and a 25% reduction in GHG emissions
Case Study Outline:
- Introduction and Background
- Technical Overview
- Challenges and Lessons Learned
- Playbook for retail stores
Enjoy!
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Until next week,
—James Dice, Founder and CEO, Nexus Labs
Hey friends,
When I heard that 2 facilities staff members are responsible for 300 retail stores and 20 distribution centers, it blew my mind. I can barely remember to change the filter in my house’s furnace, let alone manage thousands of rooftop units distributed across the country.
A lack of staffing resources is the norm, rather than the exception, in the long tail of 6 million buildings (in the US alone) under 50,000 square feet. As we covered in our 2021 white paper, The Untapped 87%, to decarbonize the buildings sector we need to remove the complexity in deploying controls to all buildings, not just the largest and richest minority that technology and service providers typically focus on.
Scaling controls solutions to all buildings is vital to society at large and the businesses that own and occupy them. Scalability will be enabled when the whole complexity stack comes together and is fit to each exact subset of this heterogeneous market.
This week, we have a case study coming out of Canada’s retail industry that illustrates the simplicity we need. We tell the story of how Sleep Country uses a network of connected thermostats and Brainbox AI’s supervisory control software to do more with fewer people and march towards their goal of net zero by 2040.
Case Study Data:
- Technology Categories Mentioned: Supervisory Control, HVAC Control
- Vendor: Brainbox AI
- Number of Buildings: 214
- Total square footage: 1.1 million square feet
- Project Has Been Active Since: 2021
- Results: In the first 49 of the 214 locations, the deployment delivered a 24% cut in energy consumption and a 25% reduction in GHG emissions
Case Study Outline:
- Introduction and Background
- Technical Overview
- Challenges and Lessons Learned
- Playbook for retail stores
Enjoy!
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Read Now
Listen Now
Until next week,
—James Dice, Founder and CEO, Nexus Labs
This is a great piece!
I agree.