Smart project planning
Making buildings smarter will be dramatically different between new construction projects and retrofitting an existing building (better known as retrofitting the built environment). Let’s begin to define a smart building project by first understanding what type of project environment you are dealing with.
A built environment drives the majority of IoT smart buildings projects
The term built environment generally describes an environment that is everything that surrounds us and that is built by humans. In its holistic view, it includes infrastructure, bridges, roads, sidewalks, transportation, buildings, and all the spaces between buildings. For the sake of this discussion, we will use the term to describe existing buildings, regardless of building type and their surrounding spaces.
Of the total number of buildings projected for the year 2050 worldwide, 80 percent of that number already exists today, and they make up the built environment. Suffice...
