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Every Wednesday, we send out "the single best resource on technology for buildings", Nexus' Founder Note. Each issue includes a note from Nexus Labs Founder, James Dice, along with a podcast, featured speaker, an event list, and more. Sign up today.

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Episode #28 reaction: making the business case for any industry

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🎧 #028: Joe Gaspardone on the business case for smart buildings in CRE

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> “Not being able to use that word in a sales pitch is a mistake, because when you can use that word and throw it in, you’re able to tell the receivin

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Implementing the BAS Architecture of the Future

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Welcome to part three of our interview series with Matt Schwartz of Altura Associates on fixing the modern building automation system. In case you mis

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A competitive advantage

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> These are the most refreshing interviews I've seen regarding technology in the built environment. —Lawrence Griffiths’ on Nexus podcast episodes #2

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Episode #27 reaction: why we can't count on connectivity

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🎧 #027: Joe Gaspardone on how a base building network enables the smart building

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> “Fitness equipment… leak detection… water treatment, irrigation… everything needs an IP address now. So you’re either stuck reinventing the wheel ea

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Who is the trusted data broker?

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> In practice, data-driven transformation has been shown to be a journey that unfolds over multiple years, not without missteps and failures over time

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Episode #26 reaction: the shift beyond efficiency to user experience

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🎧 #026: Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft on building smart from the ground up

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> “You see all these devices, you see all these components, and all of this data. You're like, can I do more by bringing all this together to create a

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When occupancy sensors don't work

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> “You don’t just want to be selling people things that are simply “good” for them, like vitamin pills. For example, saving 10% on corporate energy bi

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October digest: what the digital twin conversation is missing

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Hey friends, happy Friday! Please allow me the opportunity to try something new with this monthly digest concept… a collection of ideas I’ve been wor

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🎧 #025: Friendly rants volume 6: know your customer!

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> “I can’t stand it. If I hear one more person say, ‘We’re going to add $2 per square foot of rentable value to your building…’.” -Joe Gaspardone, [h

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That time when 6,500 buildings installed analytics software

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> 👋  This afternoon, I'm honored to be moderating a panel at Realcomm | IBcon with Dean Hopkins [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAADWfMBIDNM61EtrlYh

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🎧 #024: Mike Brooman on the role of the MSI and Smart Core

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> “I think that’s what we’re all missing is we’re all spending so much time on integration and doing the same sh*t differently, that we’re not able to

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Episode #24 reaction: Smart Core's potential

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The best resource on HVAC+COVID

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> “If there is a pile of manure in a space, do not try to remove the odor by ventilation. Remove the pile of manure.” —Max von Pettenkofer, 1858, vi

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🎧 #023: Unpacking advanced supervisory control with Nexus Pro Members

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> “When you come in and try to take control… or transparency and ownership of the system away from somebody, that’s when you start running into proble

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Episode #23 reaction: ASC's potential

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When a developer develops a SaaS overlay

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> BIM is an as-built data model… digital twin is a living, breathing, ever-evolving, ever-changing, dynamic data model that constantly has new informa

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Episode #22 reaction: quantifying the impact the digital twin has on OpEx

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🎧 #022: Kyle Tooke on defining the organizational digital twin

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> “The context is the critical piece. When companies are trying to understand, why do I need a digital twin? What’s the value? It’s about context; and

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Skill gaps for maintaining high-performance buildings

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Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

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🎧 #021: Friendly rants volume 5: the misuse of the word "platform"

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> “Okay, Dennis, this week's rant is on the overuse or misuse of the word platform. I don't really have a definition—I'm certainly not a platform arch

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Member Digest: September 2020

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Hey friends, The gathering today was good old fashioned fun. Thanks to the approximately 60 of you for attending and welcoming the new members. And t

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RXR Realty's Smart Office Reopening

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> Wow.  This was excellent.  What a well spoken and engaging communicator you are, Andrew!  And beautiful interview facilitation, James.  As an access

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🎧 #020: Andrew Rodgers on what "open" really means for smart buildings

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> “You hear so many arguments defending the status quo.” —Andrew Rodgers Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter and podcast for smart people applying smart b

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Episode #20 reaction: the three parts of an open API

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Following Google's lead

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I have one quick announcement this week: After ramping up the podcast to a weekly cadence, we’re ready to take the show to the next level and we’re looking for sponsors to help with that push.

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Join me for Tuesday's webinar

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Hey friends, I hope you had a great week. In case you missed it in the newsletter this week, I wanted to invite you to a free live webcast, "Healthie

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🎧 #019: Tyson Soutter on how to sell smart building technology

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> “A lot of this building tech industry, they always come in and say, ‘We want to be a SaaS.’ And if you're going to be a SaaS, great. You have to con

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Episode #19 reaction: sales strategy, digital twins, IAQ sensors, and buzzword bingo

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What does "open" even mean?

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> There's so many layers of abstraction from one role to the next it's just created this disconnect between the buyers and sellers of buildings, the o

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How overlay software becomes sticky

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I love a good kickoff meeting. There’s so much potential! It’s a chance to get everyone on the same team to accomplish a common goal. It’s a chance t

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🎧 #018: Logan Soya on how to engage key stakeholders in the energy efficiency journey

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> “Suddenly there was this complete transformative awakening that, okay, I'm not actually just solving the problems of the building. I have to underst

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Episode #18 reaction: three different growth patterns of the overlay

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Lock-in is dead, long live stickiness

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Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, and membership community for smart people applying smart building technology—written by James

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🎧 #017: Friendly rants volume 4: You can't get fired for...

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> “It wasn’t like a pilot. They didn’t feel the need to go scrutinize and validate and make sure that they made the right decision, so the [problem] j

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Does it need to be so complicated?

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Nexus Pro review: August 2020

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Hey friends, I really enjoyed the member gathering this week and I hope you did too! Thanks for attending and welcoming the new members. And thanks a

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Episode #16 reaction: How the multifamily vertical is unique

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🎧 #016: Brad Pilgrim on how multifamily buildings can achieve energy Parity

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> “I said, what have we done as far as energy efficiency? And the answer I got back was: we've done everything we can; we've changed over to LEDs. And

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Ten core technology concepts to know

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> “Warren Buffet has a very famous quote, which was, you know, when the stock market crashes, the tide goes out and everybody who is swimming with no

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How Switch Automation approaches connectivity by aligning incentives with their clients

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🎧 #015: Deb Noller on the acceleration of smart building adoption post-COVID

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> “I call that the year that I tried to sell Uber to the taxi drivers. You know, taxi drivers have spent a lot of money on their medallions or their p

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✨ Nexus goes full time ✨

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> “This is an outstanding read & accurately describes the silo'd approach. (…)” “Outstanding interview and great read (…)” “It was a great read this

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The BAS architecture of the future

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Welcome to part two of a three-part interview series with Matt Schwartz of Altura Associates on fixing today’s building automation system. In case you

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The increasing importance of the overlay

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🎧 #014: Friendly rants volume 3: Crawl, walk, run

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> “To take this rant to the positive side, this should be an open, honest conversation: Are you even ready for new technology? Because if you haven’t

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The antifragility of the smart building

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> "Ideally, these teams could spend that time innovating, improving, re-tuning, adapting, enhancing, and getting more out of their existing systems."

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Nexus Pro review: July 2020

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Hey friends, I really enjoyed the member gathering this week and I hope you did too! Thanks for attending and welcoming the new members. And thanks t

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The BAS industry is broken… here’s why

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Welcome to part one of a three-part deep-dive series on fixing today’s building automation system. As I’ve written about several times, the BAS is the

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What's missing from ASHRAE's controls standards and guidelines?

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> "Automating everything is not the answer; automating what is needed to drive the balance between physical wellbeing and productivity is what we’re a

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Why 75F's BAS software is Haystack-native, modular, and scalable

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🎧 #013: Deepinder Singh of 75F on epidemic mode and building the modern BAS

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> “This (pandemic) is an opportunity to make buildings more adaptable. You want to use the right technology so you can keep on harnessing change. Whet

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The water we swim in

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> "I think there's two different types of pilots here: there’s a lazy pilot where you might learn something; and then there's the I'm-going-to-scale-u

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The energy management hierarchy of needs

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Happy Sunday! This piece is a quick look at what I’ve been thinking about this week. Let me know what you think! A client asked me to explain the co

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🎧 #012: Friendly rants volume 2: the first step to nowhere

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> I think that there's two different types of pilots here: there’s a learning, lazy pilot; and then there's the I'm-going-to-scale-up-if-this-is-succe

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Lessons I wish I learned in year one

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Myth-busting and navigating the interoperability journey

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🎧 #011: Cory Mosiman on the state of Haystack, Brick, and ASHRAE 223

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> “There's many different use cases for the same data, right? So just because someone tags a data set for their use case, doesn't mean it then enables

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What are our biggest opportunities?

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> “The term ‘smart building’ has been around for 20-plus years and the industry is still in the first or second innings. There are buildings with smar

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Nexus Pro review: June 2020

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Hey friends, This week, I’m taking a break to read, reflect on the future of Nexus, and roam through the mountains of Colorado. First, as usual, I w

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Your favorites so far

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A strategic approach to advanced supervisory control

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For those of you that are sick of supervisory control, you’re in luck, because this is the last installment of the series. Part 3 of 3. If you’re sti

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🎧 #010: Friendly rants volume 1: the true costs

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> If the first outcome of your project is that you surprise a client with a fee that you didn't warn them could happen, you've failed before you've ev

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Energy savings during a pandemic

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Before we get started, I have a quick announcement: > Training is one of the major bottlenecks for our industry and I have a hunch there’s a role for

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ASC 2.0: cutting through the hype

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Let’s pick up where we left off last month. In part one [https://www.nexuslabs.online/introduction-to-advanced-supervisory], we talked about the probl

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Machine learning for buildings 101

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> I can see a day where the PID loops and basic control is done at the controller level, and the optimizations or the basic algorithms or the advanced

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🎧 #009: Terry Herr of Intellimation on the past, present, and future of building analytics

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> “Part of what I see happening with operators is a transition from actually operating to troubleshooting and repair. Because to me, in a perfect worl

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State of the art: an open, independent data layer

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The flames burn closer and closer

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> African Americans have been living in a burning building for many years, choking on the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism in Americ

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How BrainBox AI uses reinforcement learning to improve the building automation system

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🎧 #008: Jean-Simon Venne on using AI to transition from reactive to proactive

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> “How do you make the AI work with humans? So, I don't know if you had the pleasure to sit in an autonomous car… [but] I don't trust it, and it's bec

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The new role of the digital twin

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> A 3D, visual-model-based Digital Twin of an infected city is the perfect platform for aggregating and distributing information at scale in a time of

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Nexus Pro review: May 2020

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Hey friends, Just a quick note for you this weekend. As we close out month #1 of Nexus Pro membership, I want to reflect a bit and ask for some feedb

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Deep vs. shallow integrations and the misaligned incentives in commercial real estate

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🎧 #007: Thru Shivakumar of Cohesion on what makes a building intelligent

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> “Things in a building don't happen in a silo—all the operations happen together. So we can't look at the data coming off of it in a silo.” —Thru Sh

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Coming to a city near you...

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> The unprecedented lock-downs and stay-at-home orders across the U.S. and the world are exposing a new category of winners and losers – the data “hav

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How a platform + app architecture enables a single pane of glass

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🎧 #006: Prabhu Ramachandran of Facilio on a single pane of glass for the portfolio

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> "When we started Facilio, I saw that real estate as a market was a couple of decades behind where telecom is today. In last 20 years, if you look at

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The next big thing?

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> These sequences and practices might seem like small (and nerdy) performance details, but this is where the rubber hits the road for building energy

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Nexus #21 (5/5/2020)

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> “Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t *do* in advance, and what w

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Nexus #19 (4/21/2020)

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Nexus #16 (3/31/2020)

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