How smart is your building
In the previous chapter, we identified a method to identify the smart building requirements from several different perspectives and multiple stakeholders. Recently, several industry associations and alliances across the world have introduced smart building assessment and certification programs. This is an area that I know very well, as I was instrumental in conceptualizing the industry’s first smart building assessment and certification program with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
The idea to develop a certification program initialized from wanting to provide owners and operators a methodology to understand where their building currently stood in terms of smartness, and then for them to develop a strategic plan to evolve that smartness. Many building owners and operators implemented individual projects that added some degree of smartness, such as smart lighting, smart thermostats, and/or energy efficiency improvements, but few...
