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Monday Live | May 2026 | Getting Back to Basics, Part Two There is a question the smart building industry has been avoiding for years.
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Monday Live | May 2026 | Getting Back to Basics, Part Two There is a question the smart building industry has been avoiding for years.

Commercial building AI has invested heavily in teaching buildings to detect and analyze, but it has been slower to teach them what to do next.

Monday Live | May 2026 Monday Live is a weekly open session where practitioners, technologists, architects, and systems thinkers work through the future of smarter

2026 | Reflections from the Niagara Summit Introduction I’ve been attending Niagara Summits and industry events long enough to recognize when something feels like a

AHR Expo 2026 | Education Session Recap Session Recap Most building owners believe their efficiency work is done. They have upgraded equipment, implemented sequences, hit

The industry has spent decades arguing over which single standard should dominate. This recent update from Kimon Onuma FAIA proves we’ve been asking the wrong

As we attempt to better understand AI, I feel that sharing my discussions with Gemini is valuable. I suspect you are trying to learn some

In your long-standing journey through the evolution of controls, oBIX (Open Building Information Exchange) represents a pivotal “bridge” moment. It was the industry’s first major

This discussion, moderated by Rob van Kranenburg and Gaelle Le Gars, explores the transition from the Internet of Things (IoT) to an “Internet of Agents”

At AHR Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, we gathered a panel of industry leaders for a critical conversation on a topic that no building professional

Monday Live | May 2026 | Getting Back to Basics, Part Two There is a question the smart building industry has been avoiding for years.

Commercial building AI has invested heavily in teaching buildings to detect and analyze, but it has been slower to teach them what to do next.

Monday Live | May 2026 Monday Live is a weekly open session where practitioners, technologists, architects, and systems thinkers work through the future of smarter

2026 | Reflections from the Niagara Summit Introduction I’ve been attending Niagara Summits and industry events long enough to recognize when something feels like a

AHR Expo 2026 | Education Session Recap Session Recap Most building owners believe their efficiency work is done. They have upgraded equipment, implemented sequences, hit

The industry has spent decades arguing over which single standard should dominate. This recent update from Kimon Onuma FAIA proves we’ve been asking the wrong

As we attempt to better understand AI, I feel that sharing my discussions with Gemini is valuable. I suspect you are trying to learn some

In your long-standing journey through the evolution of controls, oBIX (Open Building Information Exchange) represents a pivotal “bridge” moment. It was the industry’s first major

This discussion, moderated by Rob van Kranenburg and Gaelle Le Gars, explores the transition from the Internet of Things (IoT) to an “Internet of Agents”

At AHR Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, we gathered a panel of industry leaders for a critical conversation on a topic that no building professional