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Episode 182 features James Dice, Rosy Khalife and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
It seems that everyone claims to be a Master Systems Integrator (MSI) these days, but few truly are. There's a lot of focus on who the MSI should be rather than on what the function should deliver. Rob Huntington from Emeseye & Mike Dowling from Operational Intelligence unpack the role of the Master System Integrator (MSI) in our latest Nexus APAC event
Every supermarket operator wants to cut energy costs and prevent equipment failures, but Woolworths Group (nicknamed “Woolies”) has actually done it at an unprecedented scale.
Innovative solutions are emerging that promise to liberate building owners from these closed ecosystems. In particular, one buzzword is on everyone’s lips as a beacon of hope for “freedom from lock-in”: open source. But what does “open source” really mean in the context of building automation, and can it deliver on its promise of flexibility and owner control?
Episode 181 features James Dice, Rosy Khalife and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs, as well as Nicholas Dumoulin from Dream Real Estate. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Months, if not years, into the design process, this was the first time that integration between two systems was even considered by anyone but the designer who had written the note.
This session will contain Pecha-Kucha style 7-minute quick dives into different technology that is on the horizon and starting to make its way into the world’s most advanced buildings.
Today's tools have not been very user-centric for the people on the ground, so those people ignore them—and the hoped-for efficiency and data insights never materialize. Now that’s starting to change. Gamification, AI, and behavioral psychology principles influence users to return frequently, spend more time on the platform, and even enjoy doing so.
This is the NexusCon session dedicated to the construction phase of the smart buildings process. We’ll hear different case studies providing lessons learned and success stories of new construction smart buildings strategies.
The Buyer and Vendor Symposiums were designed to be networking, problem-solving, and brainstorming sessions, with one room exclusively for buyers of building technology and one room exclusively for vendors of building technology. Then, we removed the wall separating the rooms and let the two groups hash out the obstacles to tech adoption together.
New solutions are aiming to give building owners the benefits of a horizontal architecture (more choice, flexibility, and resilience) while minimizing the burden on their thinly stretched teams.
Episode 180 features James Dice, Rosy Khalife and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs, as well as Chris Tjiattas from Walmart. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 179 features James Dice, Rosy and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs, as well as Andrew Rogers from ACE IoT Solutions. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 178 features James Dice, Rosy and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs, as well as Keilly Witman from Refrigerant Management Solutions. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 177 is a conversation with Keith Gipson from Facil.AI and Kenny Seeton from California State University Dominguez Hills.
This session will explore how FDD is transforming maintenance strategies, enabling building operators to anticipate issues before they escalate, optimizing performance, and reducing operational costs, all while enhancing the tenant experience.
Grocery facility managers are fed up with siloed software for maintenance, refrigerant tracking, leak detection, and sustainability—here’s why it’s failing them and how integrated platforms are changing the game.
This session will provide practical insights into how technology and innovative practices can be leveraged to meet decarbonization goals, offering valuable takeaways for those looking to make a similar impact in their own operations.
The pressure is on to translate all this raw sensor data into safer, more effective, more engaging workplaces—and to prove it’s worth the ongoing cost of the IoT stack. In this next phase, the focus shifts from where people are to what they’re doing, what the environment is like, and what to do about it.
Learn how Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) transforms higher ed facilities, improving energy efficiency, reducing maintenance costs, and enhancing campus comfort
Discover how energy management software automates the tedious tasks energy managers face—data wrangling, utility bill validation, and compliance reporting—so they can focus on efficiency projects and sustainability goals.
This session highlights case studies from HH Angus and Manulife, US Green Building Council, the General Services Administration, and Kaiterra, as well as Kilroy Realty on different types of sensors.
This session focuses on the principles necessary to keep your smart building program afloat through the only thing that will be constant: change in people dynamics.
Buildings account for more than 50% of electricity demand and 40% of carbon emissions worldwide. The smart buildings industry is the group approaching these issues head on. We see it daily within our community: building owners willing to be early adopters and take a le
Episode 176 features James Dice, Rosy Khalife and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 175 features James Dice, Rosy Khalife and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 174 features James Dice, Rosy and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Labs. In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, the Nexus Labs team breaks down the top stories relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Episode 173 of the Nexus Podcast features the Nexus Labs team breaking down some of the top stories from the past 2 weeks relevant to energy managers, facility managers, IT/OT managers, and workplace managers.
Smart building innovation is increasingly driven by the seamless integration of diverse technologies and data models. This session will explore how open communication protocols, unified data models, independent data layers, and ontology alignment can break down silos and enable smarter, more responsive systems.
Faced with what seemed like an inevitable $11 million expansion at one facility, T-Mobile relied on its innovative use of smart building technology to uncover a surprising alternative.
In this session, we'll hear from some of the corporate leaders on how they've built a strategy around people, processes, and technology that is leading them to corporate buildings of the future.
This session will provide practical insights into how technology and innovative practices can be leveraged to meet decarbonization goals, offering valuable takeaways for those looking to make a similar impact in their own operations.
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) consistently rank as one of the most sought-after smart building technologies among our community of building owners. Yet, when we asked these same leaders how they’ve successfully implemented BESS, the response was… silence.
In this session we’ll be covering case studies that show the achievements and challenges of deploying modern-era HVAC controls that can bring systems together and unlock the power of the cloud. We’ll hear from:
Today we’re finishing up ourNexus Labs Wrapped 2024 with a final category: Case Studies! In our Case Study series, we dive into real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies supported by the Nexus Marketplace.
This session is set to kick off the Champions track with an optimistic outlook on programs that are working in the commercial real estate environment. It will be sure to give you hope we can all do this, regardless of the challenges we're facing.
In this session, Nexus Labs will provide a brief rundown of the Nexus Labs Smart Buildings Awareness course, focusing on two key concepts:
This session explores how adopting an IT mindset for OT systems can enhance governance and cybersecurity, ensuring that digital buildings are not only smart but also secure and reliable. This session covers the following briefings:
Although nothing beats the in-person real-time learnings from NexusCon, we are excited to release the NexusCon session recordings to our Nexus Pro Community. We have over 40 hours of hot takes, knowledge bombs, case studies, collaborations, and disagreements among smart buildings industry experts to share with you.
As we approach the end of 2024, we’ve seen tremendous growth in our community this year. With the launch of NexusCon, The Nexus Marketplace, and all of the sharing and circulation of our content (thanks to many of you!), there are a lot more people on this email list today than there were on January 1, 2024.
Over a year has passed since our podcast with Cory Clarke, CPO of Neeve on Neeve’s full-stack offering. A lot has changed and progressed since then, including upgraded product offerings, a new company name, and $15 million in 2024 financing! We sat down with Nitesh Trikha, CEO of Neeve, to hear what’s new.
We just launched the NexusCon 2025 website and released 75 early bird tickets. This is the lowest price they’ll ever be, so leverage what’s left of that budget and get in on those early bird prizes (more on that below)!
For our first Category Roundup, we focused the conversation on Maintenance Management (CMMS) and Digital Asset Registers. We heard from dozens of building owners at NexusCon who were interested in purchasing these technologies to support their operational efficiency
When Harris Capital sought to make Gate 8, a new home to the Harris family office, they made an intentional investment in smart building technologies with confidence that they would see a return in the form of satisfied occupants and seamless operation.
As part of our recent mini-series on the ways that both buyers and vendors in the smart buildings industry self-sabotage projects and hold us back from new tech adoption, we asked you, our community, to chime in with your own terms. And chime in you did!
For our first Nexus Pro Gathering since NexusCon, we were excited to welcome Christopher Tjiattas, Program Manager at District Control Systems, back to the (virtual) stage to once again give his award-winning case study presentation.
In this case study, we sat down with Laura Towsley of RYCOM and Leon Wurfel of Bueno to hear the story of using data-driven tools, like FDD, to guide a smart building service provider through the Digital Revolution, leading to more efficient and valuable services to their customers.
Have you ever heard someone mutter “...and we can put a man on the moon” under their breath? It’s a great way to express the frustration of seeing incredible technological advancements all around us (like the moon landings) yet being stifled by archaic syste
A few weeks ago, there were two conferences in Denver for people who feel misunderstood. One was for people who believe aliens live amongst us. The other was NexusCon, for people who feel like aliens amongst the rest of the real estate and construction industries.
We recently performed one of our free vendor selection services for a pair of property development companies looking to find the latest in the access controls category for multifamily properties. For those of you who have been following along with our most recent whitepaper, Navigating the Marketplace,
The Nexus Marketplace started two years ago as a big ass spreadsheet. We began organizing technology companies into a huge database to sort through everything we knew about them. One of the first things we realized is how difficult it can be to tell what a company actually sells or does. Along the way, we began manually helping buyers with
Nexus Labs is thrilled to announce our partnership with Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), co-administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to accelerate the transition to digitized and decarbonized buildings.
Hey Friends, James is out this week, celebrating his birthday and his love for the outdoors in an undisclosed location deep within the Rocky Mountains…In the meantime, we thought we would share
Hey friends, Over the past month, we've been supporting a large commercial real estate owner in a vendor shortlisting for Space Utilization solutions. With multiple tenants renewing leases, ending leases, and changing space requirements, it's a full-time job for a real estate owner to forecast the future demands of their tenants and optimize usage.
In early 2024, Atrius joined Nexus Labs on the panel for the Buyer’s Guide to Energy Management, ESG Reporting, and Carbon Accounting, where they showcased their application layer solutions. Today, we sat down with Simran Kalir, Director of Marketing at Atrius, to find out what they’ve accomplished and where they’re heading.
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