Accelerating the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings technologies and practices through education and demonstration.
Building operators and engineers can borrow diagnostic tools.
Our space, in Seattle’s Pacific Tower, is available for meetings, events, and trainings.
Building Operator Certification program, Remote Learning Calendar and Library of webinars for building operators and managers.
New ways of viewing data available with today's advanced energy monitoring tools. Smart + efficient is good business.
SBC NEWS
Over the past two years, the Smart Buildings Center (SBC) has been performing a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) self-assessment to analyze SBC program reach, participation, and success rates in Washington State to establish baseline metrics and set goals for improvement. This work was born out of a discussion with the SBC Board of Directors about the need for a more critical examination of our work and the role we can and should play in supporting a more equitable community. […]
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The Smart Buildings Center Tool Lending Library supported a yearlong project led by Mazzetti, a health care engineering, planning, and design firm, to study electricity use at eight hospitals across the country. During the pandemic, Mazzetti, on behalf of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, studied electrical demand in hospitals. Although the study initially planned to look at electrical loads in multiple occupancies, after the pandemic started, Mazzetti realized there was a unique opportunity—for the first time in a hundred years, […]
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