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Puget Sound Energy Launches ‘Urban Smart Bellevue’ Energy Efficiency Program
Originally published at KPLU.org Bellamy Pailthorp, KPLU.org Emma Johnson, The City of Bellevue’s resource conservation manager, stands in front of one of the public white boards the city is using to promote awareness for the Urban Smart program....
Intel for Security Integrators About Smart Buildings
Smart commercial buildings are an emerging trend, but what is the role of the security integrator in these types of projects? Written by Karyn Hodgson With a “green” design that produces more energy than it consumes, Ethernet-connected lighting, total...
Building Cybersecurity Risks are not Smart Buildings’ fault
By Intelligent Buildings There have been significant changes to even the most basic building controls systems for past 30 years! While the smart building's movement is arguably 15 years old at best, the building systems cybersecurity problem started...
IB Approach Featured in In-Buildings Magazine
By Janice Hoppe-Spiers Intelligent Buildings LLC is a smart real estate services company that takes a technology approach to building owners' new projects and existing portfolios. “We have never been just about energy, sustainability or innovation as...
2017 Best Places to Work honorees revealed
By Jen Wilson – Associate Editor/Print, Charlotte Business Journal The time has come once again for the Charlotte Business Journal's Best Places to Work program. That program recognizes companies that have benefits, policies and practices in place...
Intelligent Buildings Co-Founders Comment on Smarter Buildings
By Lori Lovely Most commercial, industrial, and retail buildings today use some level of intelligent system, most commonly in lighting, HVAC, or security. Because the technology is advancing so rapidly, it’s now possible to collect more data and use it...
Can Hackers Target Your Building Automation System?
By Fred Gordy Building automation systems have historically been installed with convenience in mind. Isn’t that why facility managers started using a browser instead of having to install a specific application on all the PCs that needed to access the...
Technological Advancements in Smart Building Design
Most commercial, industrial, and retail buildings today use some level of intelligent system, most commonly in lighting, HVAC, or security. Because the technology is advancing so rap- idly, it’s now possible to collect more data and use it to accomplish...
A Strategic Overview for City Revitalization: Fairborn, Ohio
Like many American cities that experienced significant growth for several decades after World War II, Fairborn, Ohio, (population 33,000, located in the western part of the state, near Dayton) found itself beginning to stagnate in the mid-1970s....
Cyber Attacks Can Pose Risks Far Beyond Initial Point Of Entry
“Cyber security is widely perceived as one of the most prominent threats facing society today,” begins our latest report Cyber Security in Smart Commercial Buildings 2017 to 2021. However, this is not necessarily because attackers are infiltrating...
2015 Smart Building Wrap-Up
Author: Rob Murchison & Tom Shircliff, Intelligent Buildings, Inc. Originally published as Realcomm Advisory http://realcomm.com/advisory/720/1/2015-smart-building-wrap-up In 2015 the smart buildings solution space paradoxically generated more...
GSA Connects to Improve
by Hannah Moss (read original article on govloop) I generally think of the General Services Administration as the agency that runs government. I know, I know. There’s a lot that goes into governing, but just consider the agency’s mission statement: The...
Intelligent Buildings, LLC Co-Founders Win Industry Award
Controls Trends Award presented at AHR Conference CHICAGO, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Intelligent Buildings, LLC, a smart real estate advisory services company was honored when its co-founders, Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison received the prestigious...
Intelligent Buildings Co-founder Selected to Teach at Harvard Continuing Education
Rob Murchison, Co-founder of Intelligent Buildings, LLC, has been selected as an instructor for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Executive Education for the second year of their smart building and smart cities curriculum. The class is...
Intelligent Buildings: Start Simple with an IB Advisory Starter Kit, but Get Started!
Originally published | JULY 17, 2014 BY KEN SMYERS | www.controltrends.org ControlTrends met up with Tom Shircliff, Co-founder, Intelligent Buildings, LLC at IBcon 2014. Intelligent Buildings, LLC is premiere Buildings Solution Provider with one of...
The Changing Face of Infrastructure Monitoring
By Drew Robb ServerWatch Donald Trump is rumored to be heavily involved in it. Cisco Systems is all over it via its Cisco Connected Real Estate (CCRE) initiative. Numerous power, cooling and building-automation systems (BAS) vendors are jumping on the...
Building IQ: IntelligentBuildings® are Becoming Part of Global Real Estate Market
At one time, security cameras capturing an entire building’s entrances on a single wall of monitors elicited “oohs and aahs.” Today, a skyscraper’s every system—including HVAC, signage, elevators, light and temperature control, and yes, even...
Realcomm Advisory by IntelligentBuildings®Intelligent Buildings: Facts vs. Myths
Author: Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison, Intelligent Buildings With all the information and misinformation about “intelligent” and “green” buildings, it’s sometimes hard to understand what innovation really means in relation to your enterprise. If...
Intelligent Buildings Role in GSA National Project Announced
SOURCE: Environmental Systems, Inc. Leading Environmental Building Technology Companies to Participate in GSA Smart Building Contract Awarded to IBM Environmental Systems, Inc, SkyFoundry, Tridium and Intelligent Buildings, LLC providing technology and...
Intelligent Buildings® Client Strategy Featured by Fast Company
THE GOVERNMENT’S LANDLORD SMARTENS UP AND GOES GREEN By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “decade of smart,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building? Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even...
Cognos Systems Deploys i-LavTM in the Ballantyne Village Project
First Intelligent LavatoryTM Launch Smooth & Successful Irvine, CA—Working in partnership with Intelligent BuildingsTM to enhance Sheild Property Company ‘s showcase project, Ballantyne Village in Charlotte, NC, Cognos Systems has installed its...
Plugged into Campus Research
Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce is going the extra mile to help area businesses and citizens benefit from the mammoth N.C. Research Campus going up downtown. A week from today, the chamber will host an information session for small businesses on...
Cisco Features IntelligentBuildings® Project
Real Estate Developer Sets New Standard for Shopping Excellence Ballantyne Village’s connected real estate solution creates an unforgettable experience for visitors and tenants BUSINESS CHALLENGE Ballantyne Village offers upscale retail shops,...
IntelligentBuildings® Arcticle in AutomatedBuildings.com
For a number of years many industry leaders and manufactures have been advocating a converged and “intelligent” approach to procuring and managing building systems. The reasons are well documented and include the IT-state of most controls systems,...
EnVision Charlotte Announced at Clinton Global Initiative
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Duke Energy, Cisco and Charlotte Center City Partners today announced the creation of Envision: Charlotte, a first-of-its-kind public-private collaboration to make commercial buildings in Charlotte’s urban core more...
Envision Charlotte Program Wins Industry Award
POWERGRID International Magazine Names Projects of the Year Awards at DistribuTECH 2012 The editors of POWERGRID International magazine (formerly Utility Automation & Engineering T&D magazine) and PennWell Corp. have announced four winners for...
Envision Charlotte Announces Global First Community Water Program
Envision Charlotte, a unique public-private partnership that leverages sustainability for economic growth as a model for all communities, announces the creation of its second model program, Smart Water Nowsm. This water measurement and efficiency...
Wells Fargo Office Tower Saves 5 Million Annually
Source: EnvironmentalLeader Wells Fargo’s Duke Energy Center, in Charlotte, N.C., has earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification. The financial services company says it is the...
IntelligentBuildings® Projects Finalist for Digital Real Estate Awards
*2009 Digie Award Finalists Announced* Each year at the Realcomm Conference, we recognize the individuals, companies, projects, and solutions that demonstrate the most innovative use of technology and automation in the commercial and corporate real...
Buildings Magazine Article:The Realization of Intelligent Buildings
By Jana J. Madsen 03/01/2008 Integrated building systems streamline operations, add long-term value to property, and enable better service delivery to end-users Ten years ago, conversations about intelligent buildings included phrases like “what if” and...
Energy Costs, Green Building Fuel ‘Smart’ Structures
By John Eagan National Real Estate Investor Slowly, so-called “smart” structures are taking root as concern over energy costs and interest in green building grow. Experts say smart buildings — featuring cutting-edge, fiber-optic networking designed to...
IB and others announce research findings
Intelligent Buildings LLC, in collaboration with Navigant Research, Anixter International Inc., Lynxspring, Inc. and SkyFoundry, LLC, today announced the findings from their recent survey which gathered opinions from the Systems Integrator market as it...
IntelligentBuildings® Presents Real Estate Enhancements for North Carolina Research Campus
Co-founder Rob Murchison delivers presentations at biotechnology forum KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Intelligent Buildings, a leader in commercial real estate technology services, presented how they in conjunction with Castle and Cooke Inc., will provide a...
IntelligentBuildings® Combines Real Estate Savvy With Technology To Build, Well, Intelligently
By Bea Quirk, Special To LTW CHARLOTTE, N.C. – At Ballantyne Village, Charlotte’s newest lifestyle shopping center, visitors use touch screens to find out where retailers are located and what they’ve got on sale; watch trailers for movies showing at the...
IntelligentBuildings® Ballantyne Village Named Global Top 3
Intelligent Community Forum Announces Finalists for 2006 Awards – to be presented at Polytechnic University, NY The Intelligent Community Forum announced the finalists for its annual Intelligent Community of the Year Awards. The awards will be presented...
Prestigious “Digie” Awarded to Intelligent Buildings
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – At the 2006 Realcomm National Real Estate Conference, Intelligent BuildingsTM was recognized and honored for their Charlotte, NC, Ballantyne Village project and presented with the “Digie” Award. The Realcomm “Digie” Award recognizes a...
IB Travels to Asia for Research
INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS TRAVELS TO ASIA FOR BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH Shanghai, China – Intelligent Buildings staff has traveled with the RealComm Conference Group on an extensive, guided tour of the most advanced real estate properties in the world. This...