AEC’s Single Source of Truth: Reality or Pipe Dream?
In this episode the hosts explore whether a true single source of truth (SSOT) for construction project data is achievable or merely aspirational. NuFORMA’s Dave Wagner and Carl Beillette argue that a single vendor solution is unrealistic; instead, the goal should be a unified data structure that aggregates best‑in‑class tools while preserving user workflows. BIM Manager Terry Jones confirms the practical challenges of fragmented data across CAD, Office, Teams, and external client systems, but highlights how NuFORMA Connect’s cloud‑based, AI‑enhanced platform lets his multidisciplinary team view and manage all project information in one window without forcing tool changes. The discussion underscores the need for repeatable processes and connectors to improve coordination, collaboration, and communication across diverse project teams.
Building the Foundations of AI Cities: Lessons in Infrastructure, Energy, and Efficiency
AI’s exponential compute needs are outpacing traditional data‑center infrastructure, especially in legacy hubs like Northern Virginia. Operators are now targeting locations where clean power, talent, and renewable resources converge, birthing “AI cities” that embed digital infrastructure into urban planning. Rio...
Developer Targets Key-Worker Housing Shortage with German Prefab System
Prime, a health‑care property developer, has partnered with German industrialised‑construction firm Goldbeck to deliver Oak House, a 79‑unit apartment block for key workers in Dorchester. The scheme will use Goldbeck’s prefabricated concrete frame, hollow‑core floors and modular walls, marking the...
$8.1B Traveller Spend Projected for FIFA World Cup 2026
Expedia Group has teamed with PredictHQ to embed event‑driven demand forecasts into its Partner Central platform, giving lodging partners forward‑looking insights. The joint model projects total traveller spending of more than $8.1 billion across accommodation, transport and food‑and‑beverage in North America’s...
Why CMMS Implementations Fail in Facility Operations and What Leaders Can Do Differently
Facility leaders adopt Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to boost asset visibility, cut emergency work, and lower costs, yet many implementations fall short. The primary cause is treating CMMS as a pure technology install rather than a shift in maintenance...
Women in BIM: Driving Global Change Through Structured Mentorship
Women in BIM’s global Mentor Scheme, now in its 2026 intake, offers a structured six‑to‑nine month one‑to‑one program that pairs experienced BIM professionals with women at various career stages. The initiative tackles the persistent gender gap in senior technical and...
MDT Announces New KNX RF+ Window Handle and Radiator Thermostat
MDT has launched two new KNX RF+ devices—a battery‑operated radiator thermostat and a window handle—both featuring the company’s DeepSleep power‑saving mode. The thermostat can be fitted to existing radiators, offers a boost function, window‑open detection, and an ePaper display, while...
Elsner Elektronik Offers New eTR Series of KNX Devices for the Hotel Industry
Elsner Elektronik has launched the eTR series, a pair of KNX‑compatible devices designed for hotel room service management. The eTR DND/MUR Switch lets guests toggle Do Not Disturb or Make Up Room via a touch‑glass panel, while the eTR DND/MUR...
ADI Global Distribution Highlights Control4 KNX-Enabled Solutions at Light + Building 2026
ADI Global Distribution will exhibit its Control4 automation portfolio at Light + Building 2026, booth B91 in Hall 12.0. The showcase emphasizes KNX‑enabled solutions, featuring a live Control4 environment that integrates lighting, audio, video, climate, security and power management. New products include Lux keypads,...
Container Hotel Turns to Heat Pump Technology to Deliver Sustainable Hot Water
A European hotel chain is converting shipping containers into a 240‑room boutique hotel in San Francisco, pairing the modular design with a fully electrified heating strategy. To meet hot‑water demand, the project installed Lync’s air‑source heat‑pump water heaters, equipped with coastal‑grade...
SpareBank 1 and Tieto Banktech Transform Digital Mortgages
SpareBank 1, Norway’s leading mobile‑banking provider, has teamed up with Tieto Banktech to build a data‑driven digital mortgage platform. The multi‑year partnership will embed a dynamic, self‑service loan application into SpareBank 1’s mobile app, leveraging AI and real‑time data to...
RDHx: A Simple, Affordable Path to Lower Data Center Energy Use
Rear‑door heat exchangers (RDHx) replace traditional rack doors with liquid‑cooled coils, capturing server exhaust at the source. By moving heat to a closed‑loop liquid circuit, RDHx reduces reliance on room‑level mechanical cooling and can enable higher supply‑air temperatures. The technology...
North Carolinians Band Together to Help Their Neighbors Electrify
North Carolina’s nonprofit coalition has launched Electrify the Triad, a new program that helps households swap gas heating, stoves and water heaters for electric alternatives and install EV chargers. Building on the earlier Solarize the Triad campaign, the initiative partners...
Wi-Fi 8 and the IoT Enterprise: What Next-Gen Wi-Fi Means for Connected Devices
Wi‑Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) is being positioned as an ultra‑high‑reliability upgrade rather than a pure speed boost. It adds coordinated multi‑AP scheduling, tighter roaming control and lower tail‑latency to address the worst‑case performance that enterprise IoT teams chase. The standard keeps Wi‑Fi 7’s...
Buildner and Kingspan Launch MICROHOME 2026 With €100K in Awards and Announce 10th Edition Winners
Buildner, in partnership with Kingspan, has launched MICROHOME 2026, the eleventh edition of its global micro‑home competition, offering a €100,000 prize pool. The contest challenges architects and designers to create modular, self‑sufficient homes no larger than 25 m² that prioritize sustainability, affordability...
Adaptive Reuse, Reimagined: From Big-Box Retail To Data Centers
Adaptive reuse has evolved from a niche preservation tactic to a strategic response to e‑commerce‑driven vacancy, post‑COVID office surplus, and climate imperatives. Designers now ask "What can we save?" rather than starting from a blank slate, targeting everything from suburban...
MUFG Launches First Own Brand Real Estate Security Token for $142 Million
MUFG’s trust division has launched its first own‑brand real‑estate security token, the MUFG Realty Token, valued at ¥22.4 billion ($142 million) for the Osaka Dojimahama Tower. The token is issued on Progmat, the blockchain platform MUFG founded and now partially owns. Distribution...
Strong Demand for Building Sustainability Standards: BREEAM
BRE Global reports a 90 % increase in BREEAM certifications across North America between 2023 and 2025, highlighting rapid adoption in the U.S. market. California leads with over 60 certified projects, followed by Texas, Minnesota, Tennessee and Indiana. Industrial properties show...
Pattern Recognition in Systems-of-Systems and the Perspectives That Help Us See It
AutomatedBuildings.com marks International Women’s Day by spotlighting the role of women in the building automation sector, emphasizing how diverse perspectives improve pattern recognition across complex systems‑of‑systems. The editorial underscores that value is created at the interfaces between hardware, software, engineering,...
KNX Association Invites You to Light + Building 2026 – the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Home and Building Automation
From 8–13 March 2026, Light + Building convenes global smart‑building professionals in Frankfurt, and the KNX Association returns with a prominent presence across three booths. Attendees can claim a free ticket using code 72InP8n9L6Pb and explore dedicated Simplicity, Innovation, and...
Visualizing Home Price Changes
A new bubble‑map visualizes home‑price appreciation across 22,000 U.S. ZIP codes. It shows that the median ZIP code has seen prices double over the past decade. The map sizes each dot by population and colors it by percent change, avoiding...
February 2026: Month in Review
February 2026 highlighted how AI is no longer a theoretical add‑on for the built environment but a catalyst reshaping careers, business models, and industry structures. The month’s posts argued that AI is dismantling traditional gatekeeping—credentials, PE licenses, and SaaS lock‑in—while...
The Most Curious Things Happening in Multifamily Innovation, with Sage Ventures' Moshe Crane
In this episode, host Edward Cohen and co‑host Zach Ahrens sit down with Moshe Crane, VP of Sage Ventures and author of the Curious Deal newsletter, to dissect the current state of multifamily real estate. Moshe explains how nuanced market...
AI + Buildings 2026: Redefining Autonomy From People to Portfolios
The third annual AI and Autonomous Buildings panel highlighted a shift from reactive HVAC controls to agent‑based intelligence that can negotiate power, predict maintenance, and balance cost, carbon, and comfort. Attendees saw digital twins scaling from single sites to entire...
Want to Lift Productivity in Construction? Try Digitalisation
Australia’s construction sector, especially in New South Wales, continues to lag in productivity, with over 70% of documentation still submitted as PDFs and minimal digital training. The industry’s reliance on analogue processes drives cost overruns, delays, and fragmented supply chains,...
GDS Reveals Benefits of Using UPRNs
Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) are permanent 12‑digit codes that uniquely identify every addressable location in the UK. By providing a stable identifier, they eliminate inconsistencies in address data, enabling seamless linking across public and private datasets. The Open UPRNs...
Marco Nobel - Revolutionizing European Student Housing
In this episode, Marco Noble, founder and CEO of Fuse, discusses his evolution from creating the global student community platform Socials to building Fuse, a vertically integrated flex‑living brand for young people across Central and Eastern Europe. He explains how...
PROPTECH-X : Gap Between How Sellers Value Their Businesses and How Buyers Assess Risk Widens
A leading UK construction investor warns that reliance on EBITDA for valuations is causing deal failures as buyers shift focus to net profit before tax and cash flow. Bradley Lay of Peak Capital notes the valuation gap has widened over...
Kingdee Cloud Tower / HENN Architekten
Kingdee’s Cloud Tower, a 211‑metre highrise slated for 2025, will complete the company’s software park in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, adding 98,800 m² of office, conference and restaurant space. The pentagonal, cantilevered form maximizes a narrow site, creating an open‑air lobby and...
OPIA LAUNCHES CLIENT GIFT CONCIERGE TO MODERNIZE CLIENT GIFTING FOR REAL ESTATE & SERVICE PROFESSIONALS
Opia has introduced Client Gift Concierge™, a premium‑built digital gifting platform tailored for real‑estate agents and other service professionals. The solution replaces manual gift‑giving with instant, compliant, and retention‑focused rewards, offering access to more than 250 gift‑card options and automated...
Is Home Staging Still Worth It in the Age of AI?
Traditional home staging remains a strong value driver despite the rise of AI‑generated virtual staging, which is cheaper but often perceived as inauthentic. Experts warn that AI images can create a mismatch between online expectations and the physical walkthrough, especially...
A Rechat-Canva Integration; PulteGroup Leans Into AI
Rechat has partnered with Canva to create a closed‑loop workflow that streams live MLS data directly into design templates and returns finished marketing assets back to Rechat with a single click. PulteGroup is adding Sitecore AI to its digital home‑buying...
Roommaster to Exhibit at the 2026 Ocean City Spring Trade Expo
roommaster will exhibit its Property Management System at the 2026 Ocean City Spring Trade Expo, held March 8‑9 in Maryland. The company will occupy Booths 501 and 502, targeting independent hotel owners and regional property groups preparing for the summer season. The Expo...
NZI on TAP: Philadelphia & Peer Cities Brainstorm Best Practices for Retrofitting Affordable Housing
The ULI Net Zero Imperative partnered with Philadelphia’s DHCD and PHDC to host a two‑day Technical Assistance Panel in May 2025, focusing on retrofitting the city’s aging affordable‑housing stock to net‑zero. Participants from peer cities examined financing gaps, training needs, and...
DPR Opens New Silicon Valley HQ, Establishes Tech-Forward Prefab Lab
DPR Construction opened a 113,702‑square‑foot flagship campus in Santa Clara, consolidating its administrative, craft and prefabrication teams. The site includes 68,160 sq ft of open office space and a 45,542 sq ft Prefabrication Assembly Facility that uses virtual design tools to pre‑assemble building components....
Accor Exec Warns AI Could Weaken Hotels’ ‘Human Connection’
Accor’s European and North‑Africa CEO Karelle Lamouche warned that while artificial intelligence drives pricing, personalization and marketing efficiencies, an over‑reliance could erode the human connection that defines hospitality. She highlighted risks such as disintermediation, commoditisation and loss of brand differentiation if...
From Culture to Contactless: How Alliants Is Transforming Hospitality
Alliants CEO Tristan Gadsby and VP Gareth Fraser discussed how the company’s people‑first culture fuels its hospitality technology strategy. The firm emphasizes automating routine tasks with AI while empowering staff to deliver exceptional, contactless guest experiences, exemplified at Resorts World...
Fast‑track Housing Startup Leaves Dozens Unfinished Near Austin
Boom to bust. Onx Homes came to Austin MSA in 2022—backed by $167 million in investor capital—w/ a plan to deploy a rapid construction process (builds completed in under 60 days) Now several dozen of its half-built homes are sitting neglected about...
How Commercial Property Management Firms Are Using AI — and Hope to Use It Tomorrow
Commercial real‑estate giants are moving from speculative AI chatter to concrete strategies. Cushman & Wakefield introduced an AI Impact Barometer to gauge sector‑wide effects and is using AI for space‑planning, leasing automation, and data‑lake creation. CBRE is leveraging its extensive property...
Can AI Use Alerts to Proactively Reschedule a Project?
Researchers at the University of East London propose an AI‑driven architecture that links risk detection directly to project scheduling. The system translates safety alerts, design clashes, and supply delays into machine‑readable constraints, automatically reshaping the construction timetable. A "risk‑to‑constraint translation...
Why Bigger Batteries Can Make Sense for Facilities
Industrial facilities are re‑evaluating battery energy storage systems (BESS) as installation costs remain largely fixed regardless of capacity, making larger batteries economically attractive. Scott Childers of Stryten Energy notes that a 1 MWh unit spreads upfront expenses over more discharge hours,...
Privacy-First IOT: Why Retail and Public Spaces Are Moving Away From Camera-Based Analytics
Retailers and public‑space operators are abandoning camera‑based analytics in favor of radar‑based people counting solutions that respect privacy. Traditional video systems capture personally identifiable information, triggering GDPR obligations, costly consent processes, and public distrust. Radar sensors operating at 60 GHz millimetre‑wave...
MLS, Local Association Counts Drop as Consolidation Accelerates
The United States now hosts fewer than 500 multiple listing services (MLSs), with the count dropping to 484 at the end of 2025—a 43% decline from the 2015 peak of roughly 850. The steepest year‑over‑year contraction since 2018 reflects structural...
Bill Introduced to Ensure UK Geotechnical Data Is Available to Engineers to Save Billions
Labour backbencher Mike Reader has tabled the Geotechnical Data Bill, requiring parties that conduct ground investigations to upload factual borehole logs, soil tests and site reports to the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR). The measure builds on NUAR’s existing utility‑mapping...
Understanding 10BASE-T1L
10BASE‑T1L, defined in IEEE 802.3cg, delivers 10 Mbps full‑duplex Ethernet over a single twisted‑pair for up to 1 km. The standard lets BACnet/IP run directly on the link, eliminating gateways and allowing seamless integration with IT networks. Existing two‑wire fieldbus runs can be...
Vinhomes Green Paradise Pursues Global Smart City Certification
Vinhomes Green Paradise in Ho Chi Minh City has launched a Smart City Certification Project with Korea Management Association Consulting, the World Council on City Data and the Standardized Urban Metrics initiative. The development aims to become Vietnam’s first internationally...
Historic England Enhances Spatial Data Capability
Historic England has awarded ESRI a £889,005 contract for a Vertical Application System under the Crown Commercial Service’s Vertical Applications Solutions framework (Lot 3). The system will boost the agency’s ability to manage and analyse spatial data across heritage, housing, environment...
Reclaiming the Senses: The Role of Sustainable Key Cards in Digital Detox Hospitality
Hospitales are launching digital‑detox programs that deliberately limit screen interactions, replacing in‑room tablets and app‑based directories with tactile, low‑tech touchpoints. Sustainable key cards made from wood, PLA and plant‑based leather become the first physical interaction, reinforcing a sensory‑rich experience. These...
Data Centers Propelled Turner to Record $29.2B in Revenue in 2025
Turner Construction posted a record $29.2 billion in 2025 revenue, a 40% jump from the prior year, cementing its position as the largest U.S. contractor by revenue. The firm’s backlog surged 34% to $44.3 billion, with data‑center projects accounting for roughly 37%...
Not Done Weekly - Vibe Coding 101 for Hotels
Choice Hotels CEO Pat Pacious outlined a multi‑pronged growth plan, highlighting a rebound in the economy‑to‑midscale segment, rapid expansion of extended‑stay rooms, and a shift toward “suits and boots” travelers who need on‑the‑road lodging. He described AI as an equalizer,...