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LAX Migrates From Excel-Based Meter Tracking to Automated Data Mapping for Environmental Compliance

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At LAX, environmental reporting once meant field visits, clipboards, and emailed meter photos. The airport is now connecting 1.2M+ data points and normalizing what already exists to improve compliance and create new sustainability opportunities.

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Lincoln Property Company Combats 1:300k Sq Ft Staffing Ratios via Simplified FDD Dashboards

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Lincoln Property Company’s Chris Lelle realized that burdened engineers can’t each manage 300,000 sq ft by diving deep into BAS data—so he used FDD to simplify the troubleshooting his techs need to do.

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When “IDL” Confused the Trades, CannonDesign Brought in an MSI and Forced Scope Clarity On Their Own Chicago Office Build

Brad Bonavida

CannonDesign added smart building scope to their office after bids were in, and Div 23/26 partners didn’t understand what “IDL” meant to their scope. They had to redraw Division 25 boundaries and clarify responsibilities to prevent the job from slipping.

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A Single BACnet Routing Bottleneck at Microsoft Led to 118,000 Hours of Incorrect Equipment Scheduling Before Anyone Recognized It as a Systemic Issue

Brad Bonavida

For years, complaints about comfort at a Microsoft campus were attributed to BAS issues. Packet-level network data told a different story and exposed 118,000 hours of missed runtime.

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🎧 #191: Chris Lelle of Lincoln Property Company on the Keys to Successful FDD Deployment in CRE

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Episode 191 is a conversation with James Dice and Brad Bonavida from Nexus Lab, as well as Chris Lelle from Lincoln Property Company.

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Goldman Sachs built an OT device qualification lab to stop cybersecurity approvals from becoming rollout blockers—using QA/prod/offline networks to test devices before field deployment

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Goldman Sachs detailed how it scaled a global smart building program across 94 sites by changing where cybersecurity decisions happen—before devices ever reach the field.

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