PRESS RELEASE: May 11, 2021

FORGE Joins Smart Building Certification Ecosystem

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Smart Building Certification is pleased to welcome FORGE to the ecosystem and to work together for a smarter, healthier, and more productive future. 

This network not only strengthens the certification but provides users the ability to make informed decisions into what, how, and why, smart building technologies can make a difference to their business.

“Forge is such a cool company, pioneering visitor management with smart access to go way beyond the check-in process, and fundamentally change the user experience of a building. We are excited to learn from Forge and work with them to support the mission for better buildings.”

Nicholas White, Co Founder Smart Building Certification

From Paul Speariett, Co-Founder of FORGE on forming strategic partnership with Smart Building Certification:

“As a strategic partner of Smart Building Certification, we want to help our customers understand holistically what a smart building is and how they can come on the journey. Digitised and integrated visitor management is just one part of the ecosystem. Being a partner allows us to align more closely with other innovative companies providing smart building technology to see how we can deliver efficiently and cost-effectively for customers.”

“This is especially important now as we feel the impact of the changes to working patterns which the pandemic has instigated, including the more accepted flexible working model. This will mean a change in how and when people engage with their workplaces. These new and different flows of people will require insight that our collective technologies can provide to allow building or workplace management to adjust the experience to accommodate in an agile and sustainable way.”

Paul Speariett, Co-Founder and Director, Forge

About Smart Building Certification

Smart Building Certification was founded by Elizabeth Nelson, Nicholas White, and Wouter Truffino in February 2020 as an initiative to establish an honest and independent platform that appraises buildings all around the globe on the basis of how smart they are. The Smart Building Certification is: ‘Founded in Science, refined in practice and constantly optimized by our network of experts’. The certification has a strong foundation in academic research and partnerships as well as what is growing to be the largest network within the smart building space.

About Forge

Forge, a PropTech company, delivers solutions and technology that connects people and buildings, including visitor management, smart access and occupancy. Forge is working with some of the industry’s most prominent players, including CBRE, Savills, Landsec, Knight Frank and the innovative workspace provider HB Reavis.

With an open API, Forge Bluepoint visitor management integrates with other smart building technology to provide efficient, seamless journeys for visitors to and through buildings. Integrations with access control allow for efficient and secure access to buildings through speed lanes and lifts. Interfacing with tenant platform technology like Office App enables tenants to invite visitors using one platform and building management to have one source for data relating to the visit and tenant activity.

For more information on Smart Building Certification or Forge, please contact:

Nicholas White, Co Founder Head of Strategy and Operations Smart Building Certification

e-mail: nicholas@smartbuildingcertification.com

 

Corrie de Vries, Head of Marketing Forge

e-mail: corrie.devries@weareforge.io

Website: https://www.weareforge.io