THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Regardless of the driving factors—from growing concern surroun-
ding climate change, to market demand and even the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic—industry experts all agree that the increased
focus on the sustainability of smart buildings and the shift to a broa-
der "blue" building concept that takes into consideration a building's
impact on the planet, the people, and profit over its lifecycle is a step
in the right direction.
There's no doubt that both sustainability and smart buildings are here
to stay, and with an estimated 40% of all carbon emissions globally
attributed to the built environment, there's also no doubt that the two
together can have a significant impact. Sustainability must be an ab-
solute baseline for smart buildings, and as the sustainability concept
has evolved, that means deploying and integrating smart building
technologies that address all aspects of a building's impact—plant,
people, and profit.
"The pandemic gave us an opportunity to take a step back and really
look at the issues impacting our world. Climate change is something
we need to address. The built environment is a significant contributor
that we can work on together and define actions through technology
to reduce its impact."
- Annie Bevan, Superior Essex
Supporting building owners and operators on the path to a sustai-
nable smart building can only come from clean, interoperable, and
actionable data via infrastructures like LoRaWAN, combined with cer-
tification programs with verifiable assessment criteria like SPIRE that
provide a starting point and a benchmark for any organization. As
organizations around the world come together to address and tackle
building sustainability head on, they will ultimately discover that it's
not just about the technology or the ROI, it's also about seizing the
opportunity to make changes today for a better tomorrow.
"My hope is that in five years, we don't have green buildings, blue
buildings, and regular buildings—we just have buildings. And they
all have sustainable concepts throughout because that's just smart.
It is where we need to get to if we want to minimize the climate
crisis that we're in."
- Josh Jacobs, UL
Learn more about TIA's Smart Building
Program and the SPIRE smart building
assessment and rating program at
sbinfo@tiaonline.org
or by visiting
www.tiaonline.org
or www.spiresmartbuildings.ul.com.
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and LoRaWAN specification
at admin@lora-alliance.org
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