For over 75 years, Arup has been the driving force behind some of the worldās most ambitious and iconic built structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Beijing Water Cube, New York Cityās Fulton Transit Center, and the latest efforts to construct Antoni GaudĆās BasĆlica de la Sagrada Familia. At the forefront of digital innovation since their inception, Arupās digital buildings experience includes advising on, designing, and implementing digital interventions at a system, building, and city scale.
Arup is an independent firm of consultants, designers, planners, engineers, and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Founded in 1946, Arup is the creative force behind many of the worldās most prominent projects in the built environment. We are truly global ā from 94 offices in more than 34 countries, our 18,000 planners, designers, engineers and consultants deliver innovative projects with creativity and passion to shape a better world.
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In Arup's Smart Buildings Consulting offering, they leverage multidisciplinary domain expertise in planning, engineering, design, and consulting to define what āsmartā means to each particular client and how to realize the benefits it can bring. Arup's holistic understanding of design, construction, and building operations informs the solutions they create and the guidance they provide to clients, including architects, investors, facilities managers, and real estate technology professionals. Arup follows an outcomes-based design approach by clearly defining the goals of each engagementĀ then using these goals to inform the roadmap for technology implementation. Arup leverages their broad industry perspective to evaluate the available products, services, and technologies needed to enable each projectās āsmartā vision and design integrated digital
solutions to satisfy current user needs while future-proofing against the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Lincoln Property Companyās Chris Lelle realized that burdened engineers canāt each manage 300,000 sq ft by diving deep into BAS dataāso he used FDD to simplify the troubleshooting his techs need to do.
For years, complaints about comfort at a Microsoft campus were attributed to BAS issues. Packet-level network data told a different story and exposed 118,000 hours of missed runtime.
Goldman Sachs detailed how it scaled a global smart building program across 94 sites by changing where cybersecurity decisions happenābefore devices ever reach the field.
Despite hefty efficiency and sustainability goals, Databank faces a recurring hurdle: customers fear that AI-driven or automated BMS sequences might compromise critical uptime.
Delta Air Lines and JLL made a deliberate call at LaGuardia Terminal C: stop relying on engineers to walk rooms multiple times a day just to confirm conditions were still acceptableāand replace those rounds with standardized, proactive alerting.
Five years ago, Clockworks Analytics made a bet: fault detection would only reach most commercial buildings if it could work without deep owner-side engineering teams.
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