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.
QuadReal tunes three practices from its connected-building standard for multifamily at its Immix apartment building in Toronto: commissioning sequencing, resident-scaled privacy reviews, and resident-managed access.
Get a fast, plain-English overview of HVAC sequence optimization: what it is, why energy 'drift' quietly drives up commercial building costs, the three levers building owners actually pull (sequences, set points, and schedules), and a 12-step playbook plus benchmarking framework for making optimization a permanent part of building operations.
Episode 198 is a conversation with Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs, Gabe Sandoval from UCSF Health, and Patrick Testoni from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Hannah Baker, engineer at Willow, walks through how DFW Airport built a CBM program that actually stuck, from training a non-technical QA team to triage thousands of faults, to graduating recurring issues into automated work orders, to tracking a single KPI called 'unsuccessfully actioned' that finally gave leadership visibility into whether closed work orders were actually fixing the problem.
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