Smart Building Solutions

Advisory

Our advisory services have impacted billions of square feet of the most iconic new developments and largest existing portfolios in nearly all types of real estate. Our advisory services focus on creating strategy and guiding the implementation of the technologies that drive Smart Buildings.

Strategy & Use Case Selection

Guides strategy for design, construction, property management teams, and associated stakeholders in various facets of developing and executing a Smart Building strategy in a new project or throughout an existing portfolio. Customers can select from an extensive Use Case library in categories that include operational efficiency, sustainability, occupant experience, life safety, and public health.

Construction Administration & Commissioning

Working with MEP firms, IB acts as an owner’s agent for project alignment to their Smart Building strategy, including coordination between contractors and integrators. IB also works in parallel with the Commissioning Agent to ensure that all integrated sequences, data structure, and integration methods satisfy the selected use cases and accomplish the goals defined in the strategy.

Design Guidance & Design Assist

Manifests the strategy, business objectives, and Use Cases into the required technology design attributes. The Intelligent Buildings consultants and engineers work closely and cooperatively with your team, including architects, MEP engineers, IT and AV staff, and contractors to fit seamlessly into the traditional design, development, and management environment. Design Assist provides further technical details for insertion into the final plans.

Building Systems Cybersecurity Consulting

We can create thorough cybersecurity, remote access, backup, and system configuration policy for all your building systems contractors that can later be audited and managed as a standard across your portfolio.

Assessment

Our assessment practice identifies building systems and capabilities, connectivity and remote access methods, and contractor cybersecurity practices. The outcome is actionable remediations for each system, site, and portfolio based on deficiencies discovered while executing the IB process. Our remotely-executed assessments are completed rapidly, thoroughly, and safely to provide you with an accurate analysis to make informed decisions at the speed of your business.

Building System Cybersecurity & Contractor Risk Assessment

Provides analysis and reporting of building systems cybersecurity risk, with an in-depth look at system and network configuration, remote access, user behavior, and contractor policy compliance.

Building System Discovery & Capabilities Assessment

Provides discovery, analysis, and reporting of building system capabilities for networking, system and data integration, system capabilities, and gaps. The outcome is actionable breakdown for each system, site, and portfolio based on the capabilities and deficiencies discovered, including, if requested, the potential for analytics, operational dashboards, and digital twin.

This tool will give an indication if you need to do a deeper review of your building controls systems for cybersecurity and vendor risk management.
Answer these 9 questions to see your risk level; it takes less than 5 minutes.

Self Assessment Quiz

Managed

Our managed services fill gaps created by the industry and contractors that can cause operational risks, liability, and inefficiencies. IB’s managed services focus on securing your systems and managing your contractors’ compliance in several key areas:

Remote Access Management

End-to-end Managed Service, with secure remote access to building system networks for contractors and other off-site personnel.

Contractor Policy Compliance

Ongoing control and monitoring of contractor compliance with your cybersecurity policies through automated audit and reporting.

Contractor Phishing & Selective Hunting

A multi-campaign, building system-focused, anti-phishing service to measure and train your operations team and contractors on techniques to identify and avoid phishing emails. Hunting targets exposed building systems across your portfolio by using white hat hacking tools and methods to identify and quantify vulnerabilities in your organization’s operational technologies.

Services by Project Type

Service Category	Service Description	New Construction	Existing Portfolio
Advisory Services	Strategy and Use Case Selection
	Design Guidance		●
	Design Assist		●
	Smart Building Commissioning		●
	Smart Building Construction Administration		●
	Building Systems Cybersecurity Consulting
Assessment Services	Building System Cybersecurity & Contractor Risk Assessment	●
Assessment Services	Building System Discovery & Capabilities Assessment	●
Managed Services
	Data Backup	●
	Remote Access Management	●
	Contractor Policy Compliance
	Contractor Phishing Services	●
	Selective Building System Hunting	●

Simplify

IB has pioneered methodology that simplifies the Smart Building development process, speeds decision making, and clearly connects to outcomes. We create value throughout the life cycle of the Smart Building process from strategy and financial analysis to system selection, implementation, scaling, contractor risk management, public health, and overall program management.

Scale

For existing portfolios and smart communities, we have services that can scale to hundreds or thousands of locations for Use Cases and risk assessments for cybersecurity, remote access, and digital twin.

Monitor

Our managed services provide low-cost, high-value monitoring for key operational risk areas that are not served by traditional facilities solutions or IT contractors, including cybersecurity and environmental condition monitoring.