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SBX2021 Session Highlight: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings

June 29, 2021 By Britton Rife

Join the conversation about the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape at the free virtual Smart Buildings Exchange August 24th and 25th! During Day 1, experts from the utility and building owner/manager sectors will discuss grid-interactive efficient buildings and the opportunites they provide for performance and accelerating smart cities and the clean energy transition.

Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings; August 24th, 10:30 am
Grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB) are changing the historic relationship between the electric utility and the buildings they serve. Today, utilities face unprecedented challenges – and opportunities – to modernize their infrastructure, eliminate carbon emissions, and remain reliable, resilient, and affordable in their energy services. Creating a smarter and more dynamic two-way communication environment with their customers offers a smart approach to building the 21st century electric utility. GEBs deploy smart technology that allow building operators to shed, shift, and modulate their building loads in response to electric grid reliability, price signals, and operational needs. This will be ever more important as electric vehicle charging becomes more common. Building owners can optimize their operations and their energy costs especially in the emerging trend toward dynamic pricing structures for electricity. This session will bring together expertise from both the utility and the building owner/manager perspective to talk about the value streams inherent in GEBs.

Panelists include Cara Carmichael, Rocky Mountain Institute, James Dice, Nexus Labs, Dr. Ahmad Faruqui, The Brattle Group, and Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The discussion will be moderated by Lucie Huang from Seattle City Light.

 

View the full conference agenda and register for free today!

 

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SBX Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings & a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy

June 22, 2021 By Britton Rife


The agenda for the free virtual Smart Buildings Exchange to be held August 24th and 25th is nearly finalized! The event will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, and the business case for smart building investments.

Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings and a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy
The conference will kick-off on August 24th with a moderated discussion featuring senior thought leaders in the technology and utility sectors. Panelists include Mary Kipp, CEO of Puget Sound Energy, Debra Smith, CEO of Seattle City Light, Ed Schlect, CSO of Avista Utilities, Stephanie Greene of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft. Moderated by Ash Awad, President and Chief Markets Officer of McKinstry, this panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the energy industry and how that affects the built environment. A new, cleaner, and more flexible electrical grid is coming. These changes will be facilitated in part by smart building technologies and practices built on the fast-growing power of cloud computing and information technology services. This is sure to be an exciting and informative discussion which will frame issues getting discussed throughout the subsequent two days of the conference.

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View the full conference agenda and register for free today!

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, SBX

Registration Open for Smart Buildings Exchange, Aug 24-25!

May 10, 2021 By Britton Rife

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Smart Buildings Exchange website sbxconference.org! The free two-day virtual event to be held August 24th and 25th will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, and post-COVID building occupancy.

About the event
Throughout the built environment, new technologies are connecting building systems and occupants in ways that generate new and exciting opportunities. From enabling buildings to perform for occupants and owners in previously unimaginable ways, to leveraging buildings to accelerate smart cities and the clean energy transition for a cleaner and healthier planet, the opportunities are countless and inspiring. The Smart Buildings Exchange brings together the key audiences to challenge the hype, bear witness to the innovation, and explore the business case for accelerating the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings technologies and practices.

For more information about ways your organization or business can participate in the conference, please download our Sponsorship Prospectus or contact Brittany.Quigley@neec.net for customized sponsorship/partnership opportunities.

Register for free today!

 

Filed Under: Featured Event, SBC News, SBX, Webinars

Smart Buildings Week Recap – Webinar Recordings Now Available

September 24, 2020 By Britton Rife

Thanks to those of you who participated in Virtual Smart Buildings Week last week! We enjoyed hosting these compelling discussions and really appreciate our panelists sharing their knowledge and insight. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch them again, the recordings are now available on the Smart Buildings Center YouTube channel.

Using Data and Analytics to Improve Performance
This opening session explores the here and now of smart buildings, systems typically involved in a smart strategy, data analytics and integration management, interoperability opportunities/challenges, and the smart buildings of tomorrow.

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Grid Enabled Efficient Buildings
This session covers the “classic” demand response programs and actions, the dynamic two-way communication between buildings and the utility, how both building owners and the utility derive value from having this grid interactive capability, and ideal program features that would help make GEBs a reality.

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Achieving Persistent Operational Performance
This session examines the nexus of building operations and technology, finding plug-and-play and interoperable platforms, the role of human systems in optimizing the operation of buildings, addressing the root causes of building inefficiencies, and bridging the IT/OT divide.

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Creating Intelligent Spaces
This closing session explores how IoT is transforming the world and built environment; how smart technologies and practices lead to improved organizational productivity, better space utilization, and more efficient and healthier buildings; and key considerations that can help building owners and operators make a successful transformation to buildings that are more agile, flexible, efficient, and productive.

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Thank you again for joining us for Smart Buildings Week, and stay tuned for announcements about upcoming smart buildings events!

Filed Under: SBX, Smart Buildings Week

Join Us Next Week for Virtual Smart Buildings Week!

September 8, 2020 By Britton Rife

If you haven’t already, register to join us for Virtual Smart Buildings Week September 14th-18th, 2020! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday during the lunch hour (12-1 pm PT) a virtual session will feature an engaging panel discussion covering smart buildings topics including Using Data and Analytics to Improve Performance, Grid Enabled Efficient Buildings, Achieving Persistent Operational Performance, and Creating Intelligent Spaces. These one-hour sessions each qualify for 1 Building Operator Certification (BOC) credential maintenance point and 0.10 IACET CEUs towards the renewal of industry certifications, certificates and licenses including but not limited to AIA, PE, LEED, IFMA, ASHRAE, and AEE.

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Watch the Smart Buildings Week Welcome Address from Rimes Mortimer, General Manager of Industry Innovation at Microsoft Corporation.

 

Filed Under: Featured Event, SBX, Smart Buildings Week

Smart Buildings: Recommended Reading

August 26, 2020 By Britton Rife

The following excerpts are from recent building technology and facility management articles that capture some of the topics and questions that will be addressed during SBC’s Virtual Smart Buildings Week September 14-18. Learn more about the session topics and speakers here: https://www.smartbuildingscenter.org/smart-buildings-week/ and register for the virtual series here: https://virtualsmartbuildingsweek.eventbrite.com.

Memoori Article: Dumb Buildings are the Real Losers in a post-COVID World
COVID-19 is one of the most disruptive events human society has experienced in the last 75 years. Beyond the struggles of 2020, this harsh reminder of the biological threats we face will go on to reshape the way we live for years to come. At the center of this debate is commercial real estate (CRE) — the indoor environments where people of different households gather — where 50% to 100% drops in occupancy levels have been common for months. CRE must now adapt to a post-COVID world that will create new winners and losers to reshape the buildings industry forever. Continue reading

BUILDINGS.com Article: Data-Driven Building Design That Gives More Than It Takes
HDR’s Regenerative Design Framework moves beyond basic high-performance design toward renewal-focused impacts and metric-driven targets for carbon, water, nutrients, air, biodiversity, societal and health categories. This holistic approach is intended to flex to accommodate design projects of all sizes, typologies and performance levels.

Understanding that even today’s high-performance buildings have a negative impact on the environment and their occupants, HDR believes it’s time for a collective leap toward a regenerative future, where design has a “net-positive” impact on the environment. Continue reading

 

Filed Under: SBC News, SBX, Smart Buildings Week

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