Activate
People, Process, Governance
Turn your smart building potential into real value by activating your organization, people, and process. Validate your investments are working for you by certifying how it is embedded throughout the organization.
The real value of a smart building isn’t in what the technology can do, but in what the organisation actually does with it. Activation is about turning smart capabilities into better ways of working: using data to optimise the workplace, improve facility management, support sustainability and ESG goals, simplify reporting and compliance, and uncover new opportunities for value. This requires more than technology; it requires the right people, processes, ownership and priorities around it. Through the Collective, we help uncover where value is being missed, connect the expertise needed to act on it, and progressively build the organisational maturity to do more. Certification becomes the proof of that activation, how effectively smart is being translated into better results, places, and performance.
At the core, we focus on the results layer of smart buildings:
It is not about checklist of smart technologies but a dynamic process that scores both the existence and use of technology to measure how an asset functions. Functionality is based on building and real estate context, asset class, business models, and organisational maturity with smart.
Building Usage
How people use the building informs the decisions of what space, amenities, system automation, and adjustments are required to better serve the needs of the users. If the needs of the user can be more effectively met, improvement to performance and cost base can be more easily realized.
Building Performance
Visibility into a building’s performance from a system perspective but also amenities, and machine management, allows optimization of operations and elimination of unnecessary costs or waste. This theme looks towards optimization of investment, improved efficiencies, consumption, and a minimization of environmental impact.
Building Environment
The physical environment of the building has never been more important than it is now. Healthy environments and more importantly data proving that environments are healthy will increasingly be required by users, building owners, and even governments.
Health, Safety, and Security
Technology is the only way we know if buildings are compliant with health and safety standards and truly capable of keeping users safe. Safety is a basic human requirement that all other aspects are built upon.
User Behavior and Collaboration
Smart Buildings are intrinsically connected to their function and the people inside of them. This theme explores how the building empowers user behavior and collaboration, supporting the maximization of value and purpose of the space.
Integrative Design and Connectivity
How well are the solutions integrated with one another and the building? The least number of solutions for the maximum benefit. Elimination of department silos and seamless system integration. Smart building and business continuity is dependent on internet connectivity levels within the building. This section explores integrative design and connectivity in detail.
What do we define as smart?
“Smart building is a constantly evolving practice of implementing, using and optimizing infrastructure to learn about and improve function, service, performance and utility of the built environment. A smart building refers to the application of data to drive autonomous controls or building automation (that brings the intelligence), through integrated design which connects systems and processes to deliver improved health, wellness, human performance, comfort, efficiency, safety and security.”
The SBC Framework unlocks the unique and dynamic human processes that are constantly evolving around these buildings. In addition to the technology and integrative design, the SBC Framework measures the human process, governance, leadership, and management.
In the end, smart technology is simply a tool to achieve greater real estate and organisational results. By bringing human and technology together, we can exponentially achieve real results.
"Smart Building Collective is on the right track in creating a definition collaboratively, by bringing business, technology, and academia together in dialogue"
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