For over 75 years, Arup has been the driving force behind some of the world’s most ambitious and iconic built structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Beijing Water Cube, New York City’s Fulton Transit Center, and the latest efforts to construct Antoni Gaudí’s Basílica de la Sagrada Familia. At the forefront of digital innovation since their inception, Arup’s 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 world’s most prominent projects in the built environment. We are truly global – 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.
In Arup's Smart Buildings Consulting offering, they leverage multidisciplinary domain expertise in planning, engineering, design, and consulting to define what ‘smart’ 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 engagement 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 project’s ‘smart’ vision and design integrated digital
solutions to satisfy current user needs while future-proofing against the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
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In this presentation from the January 2026 NexusCast, Peter O'Connor, IT Director at Inova Health System, and Sia Dabiri of Altura, explain how a top-tier health system is finally closing the construction loophole that has allowed unvetted OT devices onto networks for decades.
In this presentation from the January 2026 NexusCast, Douglas Plumley, Software Architect at Dartmouth College, and Andrew Rodgers, Co-Founder of ACE IoT Solutions, dive into step five of the OT device management strategy: maintenance.
In this presentation from the January 2026 NexusCast, John DeVeaux, Enterprise Architect at Hines, and Joe Gaspardone, COO of Montgomery Technologies, dive into the messy reality of the majority of the market: multitenant buildings with tight budgets and decades of undocumented features.
In this presentation from the January 2026 NexusCast, Jim Whalen, Chief Technology Officer at BXP, outlines the two-decade journey of one of the largest real estate developers in the country as they move from simple economies of scale to sophisticated technology orchestration.
In this presentation from NexusCast January 2026, Qian (Grace) Lai, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, dives into the high-stakes world of securing the Internet of Things within a global financial enterprise.
In this presentation from NexusCon 2025, Connor Gray, Senior Strategic Consultant at Intellibuild, explains how to move beyond basic device discovery into a mature, governed cybersecurity program.
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