Potential roadblocks

While our smart building roadmap will help guide you toward your smart project(s), every road, unfortunately, has roadblocks, and identifying and handling these early in a process will help ensure success. These roadblocks include the following:

• Lack of an internal smart building champion: Since a smart building requires cutting-edge technology that impacts the day-to-day functionality of the building, it is often difficult to find an internal champion to see the vision and drive the change while maintaining current operation levels. The internal champion will need to embrace the vision, build the team, clear the budget roadblocks, field the contract issues, and continually push forward to achieve the integration vision. This champion must also have insight into the buildings’ mission, energy consumption, security, operations, occupant comfort, and overall productivity. This internal champion is the key to reaching or falling short of smart building...