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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While utilities and policymakers promote “demand flexibility” as a simple way for buildings to cut costs and support the grid, the reality is far messier: siloed systems, manual playbooks, and misaligned incentives make coordination far harder than theory suggests. Emerging solutions—like aggregators handling grid relationships, automation providers standardizing control, and readiness assessments that reveal real system capabilities—are making progress, but success today comes from solving specific pieces of the puzzle rather than achieving full multi-system optimization.
Poor cellular coverage is the number one tenant complaint in many commercial buildings, and DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) is often proposed as the solution. But with costs ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, building owners need to understand what they're really getting. Our panel explores the critical questions every owner should ask before investing in DAS technology in our latest Nexus APAC building owner meetup.
Building service contracts are shifting from hourly billing to outcome-based models. Learn what building owners should ask when renewing HVAC and controls maintenance contracts to drive better results and predictable costs.
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