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> The digital readiness score is our way of quickly highlighting whether the building is ready (for new technology). We’re looking at network commun

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Hey friends, You can understand a lot about today’s API-second [https://www.nexuslabs.online/where-are-the-api-first-companies/] smart building softw

> “The fact that other industries were being solved with an API, it really made sense to create this single layer that takes on all the historic compl

> “What’s incredible to me about (API-first companies) is that each represents something that a company would have had to build on its own previously,

> “I used to chase kilowatt hours and now I'm chasing renewable energy.” —Rob Brimblecombe Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter and podcast for smart peopl

Hey friends, Our recent podcast episode [__GHOST_URL__/-046-wiredscore/] with the WiredScore team aired just before they launched SmartScore, their s

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> “I talk about market transformation forces. I think Volttron has that potential, not necessarily that everyone's going to adopt Volttron, but the fa

> “First, I would argue that we don’t have smart buildings… We’re in the first or second inning of that journey.” —Jim Whalen Good morning! Welcome

> “I don't have a single one-liner, 25-words-or-less elevator pitch about what a smart building is. Every building is going to be different. What va

> “It's this once-in-a-lifetime moment where this flight to quality (office buildings) will happen and there's going to be a huge disparity between wi

> “Future readiness… this isn't about guessing that 5G is the future on this particular frequency, and I'm going to put that in my building and put al

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> “At the end of the day the only way to start truly decarbonizing is to decarbonize the underlying businesses and buildings. You can’t get there with

> “I think where the industry needs to get to is… looking at how best to service a portfolio, rather than the kind of one-to-one [management team to b

> …And they're just part of the reality of the built environment. I think we'd be better off instead of wishing that some magic technology will make i

> “So I know that's your favorite question and you want me to answer it, but I I'd reword it: Why is the adoption of technology behind? I won't go to

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Watch the recording of our March Pro Member Gathering with Terry Herr, Shaun Cooley, Andy Frank, Nick Gayeski, Brian Turner, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty.

> “This sector, you know, built world and building tech, I think really demands: yes, disrupt; but also respect certain things. And the respect is jus

> “This framework is incredible for understanding the difference between technologies.” —Nexus Foundations student In Module 4 of the Nexus Foundatio

> “There's a mentality, at least in Silicon Valley that says, ‘Hey, we're just going to run in like a bull in a China shop and disrupt… Disrupt, disru

> “OT is not concrete. There's care and feeding that needs to go into it." —Aaron Lapsley on the Nexus Podcast Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a new

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> “Buildings are not bonds… The key difference that I think a huge amount of the real estate industry does not appreciate is that a building is a prod

> “This is not about theory, this is about getting your feet wet" —Anand Mecheri Good morning! Welcome to Nexus, a newsletter, podcast, membership c

> “I was very quickly disappointed once I realized there was a huge gap between the promise and the reality of BIM… The reality was that BIM was, is s

> “The more time we spend going to answer a hot/cold call, the less time we spend taking care of key issues and making sure the facilities really runs

> “Many of the solutions deployed as part of a broader iDER platform — including VPPs, DERMS, and microgrids — are multipurpose, offering benefits to

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> “We've solved so many things where the engineering staff has been like, ‘I bet you this was going on for 10 years.’ It's been happening forever… whe

> “Nexus Labs offers a great way for new hires in the building tech space to get up to speed on the trends and terminology as well as the challenges f

> “Because that large scale technology transformation hasn’t happened, that’s probably the cause of outdated business models, lack of IT skillsets, la

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> “Crossing the first chasm is great, but if analytics are not integrated into the day-to-day operations of internal teams, it’ll remain a niche tool

“It’s not first to market that wins, it’s the first to cross the chasm.” —Geoffrey Moore Do you ever feel like the Universe is speaking directly to

> “Every building owner is on their own path and it’s our job as an industry to meet them where they are on that path, not to yell at them from the en

> “If I’ve learned anything from the ten years of my love/hate relationship with smart buildings, it’s that many of the reasons these projects fail ar

> “I think that leveraging both is incredibly important. You need the software to be modular enough to merge everything together. But you need a willi

Hey everyone, James here from Nexus Labs. Instead of our normal Tuesday newsletter, today I want to tell you a quick story about my career. That wil

> “This is like the moral compass to our industry, right? We're totally fixated on customer benefits and savings; and in order to pivot so we are also

Hey friends, happy Wednesday! Welcome to another monthly digest… a collection of member updates and ideas I’ve been thinking about and working on thi

> “The real estate developers are starting to realize that if they make a real smart building, the building will have a higher value and they can rent

> “We can’t try to bring them all [ontologies] together. We can’t make them all one. What we need to do is really focus on delivering the outcomes and

> “I think the Foundations course’s holistic approach is super valuable. Smart building offerings, integrated systems, and potential roadblocks are qu

Hey! Welcome to Nexus. I’m glad you made it. Let me introduce you to the site. If you just want to get the gist, here’s the TL;DR: * Nexus exists t

> "It's not a technology question. It's not a performance problem. It's a people problem. If a new building is being built… and the owner says, “I wan

> “There's nothing that is stopping you. All the technology's there. The knowledge is there. It's a matter of time and money and guts. I mean, Elon Mu

> "If there’s one thing that makes the success of a smart building, it is the combination of real estate, facilities, IT, hospitality, all those peopl

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> “The struggles of today have inspired the digital tools of tomorrow as the world finds new ways to strive for the same progressive goals. Our societ

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> “Show that designing a building that is healthy and safe doesn't have to be a counter to your sustainability plan and can actually be more sustainab

> “As the capabilities of technology have advanced and expectations have risen, a large gap has grown between what O&M teams need and what their curre

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> “You built a building 25 years ago, and the stuff you put in there, it’s still there.” -Keith Berkoben of Google "For consumer facing technology,

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

> “The measure of analytics success is not the number of faults you generated, it’s the number of tasks you complete.” —Dennis Krieger, Clockworks A

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

> “I think it’s a huge issue that people face when they’re dealing with digital twins: it’s very easy to get lost in the art of the possible, or even

Hey friends, Last week I received an email from a fellow buildings nerd, let’s call her Mary the Mechanical Engineer. Her message had this subject li

> “I would recommend the Nexus Foundations course [https://courses.nexuslabs.online/p/nexus-foundations/?product_id=2714036&coupon_code=EARLYBIRD] to

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> “Google operates at such a scale that we're often the largest customer of any given system in any domain, whether it's a physical security system or

> Why are we approaching smart buildings in the same way we’ve been doing building automation for the last 15 years? All the different systems, design

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> Here is my message to anyone in charge of procuring BAS work, owner or otherwise: step 1 is to take all the proposals you have on your desk from the

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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

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

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

> 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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> “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

> “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

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

> “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

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

> “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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> “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

> “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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> 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

> “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

Happy Thursday! Welcome to this week’s deep dive exclusively for Nexus Pro members. It’s an honor to have you here. This deep dive is a follow up to

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

> “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

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

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

> “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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> “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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> 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