Welcome to the new Buyers Tower! With thousands of companies selling to the smart building industry, it can be overwhelming and confusing to find the right fit. Here youāll find the industryās top technology vendors and service providers, vetted by Nexus Labs. Take a look around and check back as we add more partners and publish category deep dives.
Market transformation partners are working on permanently changing the business cycle by aligning incentives. These partners focus on policy development, R&D, education, outreach, financial incentives, technical assistance, and network-building.
Talent and labor shortages will prevent the industryās transition to decarbonized and digitized buildingsāunless the workforce builders have something to say about it.
We talk a lot about the flashy new technology required for smart buildings. But we must always remember that when we're changing how things are done, people make it happen. Buyers recognize the importance of specialist rolesāeither on their staff or outsourced as members of their team of service providers. The Vital Roles are the service providers that buyers canāt do without.
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Applications sit on top of the data layer and provide outcomes to users through mobile apps, web apps, or process-based applications. Buyers need persona-specific, contextually integrated applications that are designed around digitizing and automating human workflows.
The data layer sits on top of the device and network layers as the data infrastructure for any smart building software application. The applications need an ontology to understand all the data they're consuming, including all the underlying devices and how they fit together into a system of systems.
The Device Layer is where the digital meets the physical world. Itās where the digital device controllers liveāeach with their own unique inputs, outputs, and life safety functions. Our devices have immense teamwork potential, but they often sit in silos.
Water systems remain the least digitized building infrastructure despite posing major risksāfrom catastrophic leaks to Legionella outbreaks. New non-invasive sensors now offer targeted solutions without requiring comprehensive building automation, transforming water from a utility bill line item into a managed asset with real-time visibility.
Episode 186 is a conversation with Brad Bonavida and James Dice from Nexus Labs, as well as Leslie Beu from Clockworks Analytics and Reed Powell from MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions.
While utilities and policymakers promote ādemand flexibilityā 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 solutionsālike aggregators handling grid relationships, automation providers standardizing control, and readiness assessments that reveal real system capabilitiesāare 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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