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> “Okay, Dennis, this week's rant is on the overuse or misuse of the word platform. I don't really have a definition—I'm certainly not a platform arch

Hey friends, The gathering today was good old fashioned fun. Thanks to the approximately 60 of you for attending and welcoming the new members. And t

> Wow.  This was excellent.  What a well spoken and engaging communicator you are, Andrew!  And beautiful interview facilitation, James.  As an access

> “You hear so many arguments defending the status quo.” —Andrew Rodgers Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter and podcast for smart people applying smart b

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

I have one quick announcement this week: After ramping up the podcast to a weekly cadence, we’re ready to take the show to the next level and we’re looking for sponsors to help with that push.

Hey friends, I hope you had a great week. In case you missed it in the newsletter this week, I wanted to invite you to a free live webcast, "Healthie

> “A lot of this building tech industry, they always come in and say, ‘We want to be a SaaS.’ And if you're going to be a SaaS, great. You have to con

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> There's so many layers of abstraction from one role to the next it's just created this disconnect between the buyers and sellers of buildings, the o

I love a good kickoff meeting. There’s so much potential! It’s a chance to get everyone on the same team to accomplish a common goal. It’s a chance t

> “Suddenly there was this complete transformative awakening that, okay, I'm not actually just solving the problems of the building. I have to underst

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

> “It wasn’t like a pilot. They didn’t feel the need to go scrutinize and validate and make sure that they made the right decision, so the [problem] j

Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

Hey friends, I really enjoyed the member gathering this week and I hope you did too! Thanks for attending and welcoming the new members. And thanks a

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> “I said, what have we done as far as energy efficiency? And the answer I got back was: we've done everything we can; we've changed over to LEDs. And

> “Warren Buffet has a very famous quote, which was, you know, when the stock market crashes, the tide goes out and everybody who is swimming with no

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> “I call that the year that I tried to sell Uber to the taxi drivers. You know, taxi drivers have spent a lot of money on their medallions or their p

> “This is an outstanding read & accurately describes the silo'd approach. (…)” “Outstanding interview and great read (…)” “It was a great read this

Welcome to part two of a three-part interview series with Matt Schwartz of Altura Associates on fixing today’s building automation system. In case you

Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

> “To take this rant to the positive side, this should be an open, honest conversation: Are you even ready for new technology? Because if you haven’t

> "Ideally, these teams could spend that time innovating, improving, re-tuning, adapting, enhancing, and getting more out of their existing systems."

Hey friends, I really enjoyed the member gathering this week and I hope you did too! Thanks for attending and welcoming the new members. And thanks t

Welcome to part one of a three-part deep-dive series on fixing today’s building automation system. As I’ve written about several times, the BAS is the

> "Automating everything is not the answer; automating what is needed to drive the balance between physical wellbeing and productivity is what we’re a

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> “This (pandemic) is an opportunity to make buildings more adaptable. You want to use the right technology so you can keep on harnessing change. Whet

> "I think there's two different types of pilots here: there’s a lazy pilot where you might learn something; and then there's the I'm-going-to-scale-u

Happy Sunday! This piece is a quick look at what I’ve been thinking about this week. Let me know what you think! A client asked me to explain the co

> I think that there's two different types of pilots here: there’s a learning, lazy pilot; and then there's the I'm-going-to-scale-up-if-this-is-succe

Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> “There's many different use cases for the same data, right? So just because someone tags a data set for their use case, doesn't mean it then enables

> “The term ‘smart building’ has been around for 20-plus years and the industry is still in the first or second innings. There are buildings with smar

Hey friends, This week, I’m taking a break to read, reflect on the future of Nexus, and roam through the mountains of Colorado. First, as usual, I w

Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

For those of you that are sick of supervisory control, you’re in luck, because this is the last installment of the series. Part 3 of 3. If you’re sti

> If the first outcome of your project is that you surprise a client with a fee that you didn't warn them could happen, you've failed before you've ev

Before we get started, I have a quick announcement: > Training is one of the major bottlenecks for our industry and I have a hunch there’s a role for

Let’s pick up where we left off last month. In part one [https://www.nexuslabs.online/introduction-to-advanced-supervisory], we talked about the probl

> I can see a day where the PID loops and basic control is done at the controller level, and the optimizations or the basic algorithms or the advanced

> “Part of what I see happening with operators is a transition from actually operating to troubleshooting and repair. Because to me, in a perfect worl

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> African Americans have been living in a burning building for many years, choking on the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism in Americ

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> “How do you make the AI work with humans? So, I don't know if you had the pleasure to sit in an autonomous car… [but] I don't trust it, and it's bec

> A 3D, visual-model-based Digital Twin of an infected city is the perfect platform for aggregating and distributing information at scale in a time of

Hey friends, Just a quick note for you this weekend. As we close out month #1 of Nexus Pro membership, I want to reflect a bit and ask for some feedb

> “Things in a building don't happen in a silo—all the operations happen together. So we can't look at the data coming off of it in a silo.” —Thru Sh

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> The unprecedented lock-downs and stay-at-home orders across the U.S. and the world are exposing a new category of winners and losers – the data “hav

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> "When we started Facilio, I saw that real estate as a market was a couple of decades behind where telecom is today. In last 20 years, if you look at

> These sequences and practices might seem like small (and nerdy) performance details, but this is where the rubber hits the road for building energy

A wide gap has grown between (1) what technology is capable of and (2) what our building automation systems are capable of. Simultaneously, building o

> Look at Tesla today versus the car companies. Those are hundred year old companies with a hundred year old mindset with a hundred year old trajector

> “Does that put them out of business? No, I think what it does is, whether it's fault detection or analytics or district management or energy audits,

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. Use the comments to introduce you

For this month’s Nexus Pro member event, here’s the plan: * Time: 10am MT on 5/26. I’ll send out a Zoom/calendar invite to all Pro members this F

> “In a typical year you will take two million breaths in your office. This, however, is not a typical year. As much as buildings can spread disease,

> “The reality is: institutional knowledge is retiring. So what is shared knowledge? It means you have a single source of truth. It means you have a

Happy Thursday! Welcome to the first Nexus deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. And let’s kick this off right

> “Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t *do* in advance, and what w

Hey friends, Starting this Thursday, April 30th, some Nexus content will be exclusively available to members of Nexus Pro. And starting today, I’ll s

> We estimate that flexible customer-sited resources (electric vehicles, thermostats, batteries, smart water heaters, etc.) could shift up to 30% of p

Happy Sunday! Since around 2015, I’ve been keeping an Evernote notebook of products in the smart building marketplace. Whenever I see a new startup,

> “I think the first wave of adopters saw energy as the primary benefit. Our experience is that the current wave of adopters sees condition-based or p

👋 Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James Dice [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwdice/]. If

👋 Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James Dice [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwdice/]. If

The deets: * Discussion: Thursday, April 9th, 1:00pm MST | Zoom Meeting [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/890561291] * Current book: Computational Thin

> Some of these companies actually just want to be the middleware, and I don't think that's a dirty word. —Joe Aamidor Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter

Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James Dice [__GHOST_U

👋 Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James Dice [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwdice/]. If

It feels like a good time to press pause on our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s an outline of today’s

The deets: * Discussion: Thursday, April 2nd, 1:00pm MST | Add to calendar [https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2RibDU2dXU4d

Hi everyone—these are weird times we’re in. I hope this note finds you safe, sane, and healthy. In an effort to make the best use of time coope

Episode 001 is an introductory conversation with Nicolas Waern, CEO of smart building consulting firm WINNIIO. In another day and age, Nicolas and I would have never met, but here we were... me in Denver and Nicholas in

We’ve been doing this Nexus thing for 3 months now. If it’s not too much to ask, I would like some feedback so we can keep improving it.

Why building analytics are inevitable—my response to a recent discussion questioning whether analytics will go mainstream.

Why building analytics are inevitable—my response to a recent discussion questioning whether analytics will go mainstream. I’ve also tried something new with this post:

When analytics insights fall flat—One of my essays was featured on the Gridium blog. Here’s a taste:

The “State of Energy Management” Survey of Building Owners (Smart Energy Decisions)—I almost spit out my coffee when I heard on the Modern Energy Management podcast that, according to

On the blog: Why We Need Digital Twins for Buildings—this is part two of a three part series on digital twins for buildings. Let me know what you think in the comments

My recent blog post on the merits of an independent data layer has struck quite a nerve on LinkedIn. Which side are you on?

We got it! Thanks for your interest.

There’s been insightful discussion on LinkedIn on last week’s essay Defining the Digital Twin for Buildings. Check it out

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Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter for people applying analytics and other smart building technology—written by James Dice

Houston, we have a problem. Quickly after the oxygen tanks exploded early into Apollo 13’s mission in April 1970, the astronauts were fighting for th

Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter for people applying analytics and other smart building technology—written by James Dice

The number one misconception about building analytics software is that it will solve problems on its own. Yes… it’s an extremely powerful tool for bu

Welcome to nexus, a newsletter for people applying analytics technology in buildings — written by James Dice. If you’ve be

question-asker, engineer, analytics nerd

Welcome to nexus, a newsletter for people applying analytics technology in buildings — written by me, James Dice. If you’v