Episode 164 features Jason Pohl from Buildings IOT and Steve Watson from The Museum of London and is our 10th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings progr…

Welcome to our latest podcast series, Buyer Roundup! Each month, we’ll chat with Buyers from different verticals to check in on what’s new and what has them excited these days. Episode 163 features Gerry Hamilton from Stanford University, Dan Quigley from Boston University, and Durga Sarilla from Kansas State University. This conversation explores …

Episode 162 features Ryan Knudson from Macerich and Jon Schoenfeld from Buildings IOT and is our 9th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. This…

Episode 161 is a Nexus Labs Update featuring James Dice speaking on the shifts in focus of Nexus Labs. Enjoy! Find full show notes and episode transcript on The Nexus Podcast: Episode 161 webpage. Sign-up (or refer a friend!) to the Nexus Newsletter. Learn more about The Smart Building Strategist Course and the Nexus Courses Platform. Check out the…

Episode 160 features Nathan Morris from KIPP, Stephen Dawson from Normal Software, and Terry Herr from Intellimation and is our 8th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their…

Episode 159 features Thano Lambrinos from QuadReal and Wayne Kim from Andorix and is our 7th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. This convers…

Episode 158 features Richard Davis from Limbach Holdings and is our 7th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. This conversation explores how Li…

Episode 157 features McGee Young from WattCarbon, Alan Greenberg, and DR Richardson from Elephant Energy and is our 7th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart build…

Episode 156 features Mary de Guzman from Sleep Country and Omar Tabba from BrainBox AI and is our 6th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. Mar…

Episode 155 features Dana Schneider from Empire State Realty Trust and Etrit Demaj from KODE Labs and is our 5th episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings pr…

Episode 154 features Joseph Fleshman from University of California Irvine and Jim Meacham from Altura Associates and is our fourth episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their …

Episode 153 features Ben Cooper from BGO and is our third episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. Ben talks about the asset type due diligence an…

Episode 152 is the second episode in our new workforce series, In The Field. In The Field features people working boots on the ground in the built environment, giving real-life perspectives on their roles, backgrounds, and aspirations. Episode 152 features Stacks+Joules graduate and senior controls technician Nathanseth Cruz of Dual Fuel and Stacks…

Episode 151 dives into what James and Rosy do at Nexus Labs beyond the podcast. From the pro membership community, to the courses platform, partnerships, and the marketplace, this episode brings you up to speed on all things Nexus Labs. We also hear from people who use these products and the impacts that they have. For more information check out th…

Episode 150 features LONG Building Technologies and is our second episode in the Case Study series looking at real-life, large-scale deployments of smart building technologies. These are not marketing fluff stories, these are lessons from leaders that others can put into use in their smart buildings programs. Leslie Beu and Lawrence Trifiletti talk…

Episode 149 is the first episode in our new debate style series called Change My Mind. This idea came from Nexus Pro member Pete Swanson. So thank you Pete, and we love that our community continues to inspire us to keep experimenting with the pod. The first topic is the independent data layer, and the debate center’s on if all buildings over a hund…

Episode 148 is part of a new series called Foundations. The idea behind this series came from conversations with many of you from our Nexus community. We'll be covering topics that keep coming up time and time again, that don't have a lot of beginner resources. These are concepts that we explore in our Nexus Foundations course, our six week online …

Deep Dives will be a new series of episodes featuring one on one conversations with various subject matter experts. Episode 147 is our first episode in this format featuring Ernie Beck from NV5 Engineering & Technology, discussing audio/visual systems, and the role they play. Ernie draws parallels from A/V stacks to traditional building stacks, tea…

Episode 146 is the first episode of a new series called In The Field. In The Field will feature people working out in the built environment giving real-life perspective on their day-to-day, and how smart building technologies fit, or don't fit in. This is one of our most creative concepts on the podcast to-date, featuring a self-narrative and then …

Early Stage is another new series of episodes featuring early stage founders of startups hoping to fill a gap in the smart buildings marketplace. Episode 145 is a conversation with Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli and Laura Rosenshine from WATS. Meredith and Laura share their passion and insights to better manage the waste we all produce. And they’re eag…

Episode 144 is the first episode in a new series diving into case studies of real life, large scale deployments of smart building technologies. For this first episode, we talk with the University of Iowa regarding their integration of FDD via Clockworks Analytics. This project started in 2014 and includes 6.8 million square feet across 47 buildings…

Episode 143 is the first new podcast after taking a break to reformat and expand our podcast platform. Updates + AMA will be a series of shorter episodes for us to discuss industry news, what's happening behind the scenes at Nexus, and to answer questions from our pro members. Towards the end, we have an ask me anything (AMA) where pro members can …

"The building industry can be the first to show the world what it looks like for an industry from within itself to transform itself in line with a sustainable future." —Lindsay Baker My Highlights Lindsay's background (4:45) Occupant application now versus its inception (17:37) Ideas from WeWork (24:51) The Institute and living buildings (29:33) Ho…

"So many organizations want to sell ESG solutions, but very few have their own ESG statements, goals, or positions. If you don't want it, why would I?" —Mandi Wedin Highlights Joe's introduction (1:05) Mandi's introduction (2:01) ESG+R and why we care (4:21) How DEI fits into ESG+R (12:26) Greenwashing from the investor's perspective (17:01) Green …

"You can't just sell the data. It's got enormous value, but it needs to be manifested and taught in such a way that people can react to it." —Mike Moran My Highlights Mike's background (1:17) Bayron's background (3:00) Kilroy's assets and real estate strategy (4:03) How the business case is made for smart buildings (7:36) Communicating the ROI (12:…

"Even with heat pumps and electrification, demand flexibility is a really big issue. You need controls to be able to use or roll back energy at the right times and that becomes increasingly important as you have more variability in terms of the generation of energy on the grid." —Joe Aamidor Highlights Jeanne's introduction (1:05) Joe's introductio…

"Building owners need a lot more than what siloed systems are capable of. Smart building solutions need to solve that problem by integrating with those systems, and in the next phases, adopting more of a horizontal architecture where building owners are not buying all of these redundant layers anymore from a bunch of different vendors. But if we're…

"We pay $10 billion per year for balancing the grid using natural gas, peaker plants, etc. when we could be paying that to households for those services instead." -Jigar Shah My Highlights How smart and decarbonized is Jigar's home? (2:30) Business model innovation and unlocking decarbonization at scale (4:20) Deployment-led innovation (5:50) Movin…

"Data transparency is a key part of unlocking stronger two-way communication. If you think about the utility side, usually the amount of data they have about where and when energy is being used stops at the substation level. So you might have a really connected smart building but the utility side doesn't have the data to make smarter decisions abou…

"Investors are thinking about the long-term value and risk of buildings and recognizing that high-performing buildings are lower-risk, which means higher value. All investment is going to be centered on the risks inherent with buildings and making sure that those buildings are future-proof and able to prosper in a decarbonizing economy." —Cliff Maj…

“Tenants are struggling to achieve something that landlords have direct control over and that aligns with what landlords are struggling to do. Tenant submetering needs to be looked at and rethought." —Comly Wilson My Highlights Comly’s background (2:50) About Enertiv (6:35) 2022 was about TenX and 2023 is all about OpX (18:21) How we create a conce…

"We're still stuck dragging the anchor of the old proprietary software. Manufacturers need to listen to what the end-use customers are saying. They want open systems, product flexibility, and access to the data." —Leroy Walden My Highlights Leroy’s background (2:11) Conversation Context (5:05) Evolutionary phases of smart buildings from a BAS persp…

“You can electrify your way out of natural gas usage and move to renewable energy to get yourself out of scope two emissions but refrigerants are going to be the main solution for electrifying both water and space heating, which means a significant increase in refrigerant usage." —Tristam Coffin My Highlights Tristam’s background (2:09) Keys to sus…

“To really operate a building at scale, you need to be able to know what's happening across everything in that building at any one time and manage it in the same way you would a smartphone. Everything end to end in the building needs to be managed in a way that's much more IT-focused as opposed to OT. And so coming up with complete management of th…

"For us, it's simpler to work with applications that go ontop of the BOS because we can control the information being accessed. Without the BOS, transparency is limited, which limits the number of use cases. By adding this data layer, we're dramatically increasing transparency and the possibilities of what else can easily be added on top." —Grigor …

“The tools that have always been successful at instigating change are benchmarking and performance standards. Let's use those tools and evolve them to better fit the needs of today's definition of a high-performance building, which includes the carbon aspect, grid interactivity, and occupant responsiveness." —Molly Dee-Ramasamy My Highlights JBB's …

“The grid is starting to look a lot like the internet. These IOT devices are distributed, digital, user owned and operated nodes. They can buy from the grid, they can sell from the grid, they can respond dynamically. These nodes are increasing ten, a hundred, a thousand fold over the next decade, which has really interesting implications for how we…

“Don't spend your time with the laggards who don't yet see the need for (smart building technology). When they see it they'll find you. Go find owners with a need and then meet that need." —Mandi Wedin My Highlights The macro perspective of commercial real estate investment (5:04) Types of real estate investment vehicles (10:12) Different issues re…

“There is another use case for smart building systems and for BAS, and it is critical input data for designing low-carbon systems for your building that if you don't have that data, you are not going to design your systems properly. They will probably be oversized and a lot more expensive than they need to be compared to as if you had good data to …

“A building can only run as efficiently as its engineer knows how to run it. Unless you have an engineer-first mindset, none of your energy efficiency efforts is ever really going to reap the rewards." —Sara Neff My Highlights About Lendlease (4:47) Sara's role at Lendlease (6:25) Roadmap to net zero (12:07) Renewable procurement (22:22) Energy eff…

“We can have all the technology in the world but dropping it into a building doesn't magically transform it. It ultimately is a tool. Your people can be empowered by this tool but it will never do everything for you. You have to set objectives, lean in and embrace the technology. You have to train your people and build the organization in a structu…

“There's definitely still venture capital money out there looking for great companies, especially in the smart building space. As long as you have a clear thesis and value proposition and your tech addresses a need of a building owner/operator, you're going to pass this deeper diligence with flying colors." —Jeanne Casey My Highlights The economic …

"Real estate owners buy and sell assets and drive yield. So we needed to reframe little "e", the discussion on electrons, and expand into big "E", environmental social governance. Doing so helped the real estate owner understand not commodities, but yield and risk in return." —Matt Ellis My Highlights Measurabl’s founding story (2:10) From "meter" …

“Step one (of 3) on reducing embodied carbon emissions is to start thinking about if we have to build a building at all. So if we just stopped building right now, there's plenty of empty space for us to put all that square footage into that we say we need. And beyond that, we have more than we need." —Stacy Smedley My Highlights Quick overview of S…

“They're doing the same thing they did last year, but now it's called decarbonization. But the reality is, is that they are decarbonizing buildings. The work that we've been doing for 20 years is the right work to be doing we just don't have a metric to measure ourselves against and a way to value that work." —McGee Young My Highlights The problem …

“We see an expansion of robots doing 80% of a job in the service sector, allowing humans to do what's complex." —Greg Scott My Highlights SRT Labs (5:00) Use cases for robots (11:17) "Smart" definitions in the context of robots (19:49) Robotic product adoption (23:14) Problems unique to the federal sphere (41:58) Map-based data collection (46:54) T…

“There's a lot of complexity that goes into building a technology that simplifies things for people." —Aaron Block My Highlights Aaron’s background (2:50) The #1 way to unlock decarbonization of commercial buildings (17:19) The problem is complexity (28:16) How energy as a service differs from the ESCO model (38:55) Fuel switching (50:43) Current t…

“We can accomplish both sustainability and IAQ, but we need to think holistically. And we need to think in terms of layered strategies and frameworks." —Christian Weeks Highlights enVerid's founding story (4:53) How enVerid's whitepaper came to be (18:53) Step 1: define goals (26:18) Defining acceptable IAQ and which metrics to monitor (32:01) CO2 …

“In the beginning of their journey to a smart building, many of our clients are wondering what they need to buy to check the box. We've flipped that so that the conversation looks at the experiences, outcomes, and capabilities that are meaningful to the organization. Then we can look at the technology." —Charlie Buscarino My Highlights Charlie’s ba…

“My 80/20 rule is that it's 20% of technology—and there are a lot of technologies in a smart building. And it's 80% about people and human engineering." —Bruce Duyshart My Highlights Bruce’s background (1:11) Meld's key projects (13:24) Horizontal architecture: converged network, data platform, apps (16:44) How Bruce defines a smart building (23:01…