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The Nexus Podcast

Conversations with smart people exploring smart buildings technology, hosted by James Dice. www.nexuslabs.online

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00:42:52

🎧 #069: Dana Guernsey on building a grid-interaction...

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2021/09/23

“The system was originally built to adjust supply, to meet demand. Everything about it was built that way, the market design, the physical infrastructure, everything. Now we're evolving it to also adjust demand to meet supply. Supply is becoming more and more intermittent, demand is becoming more and more flexible.The whole thing is just getting up-ended and for building owners, they can't just close their eyes and not realize that the building is very much part of that."—Dana Guernsey My

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01:18:09

🎧 #068: Ben Myers of BXP on decarbonizing 50 million...

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2021/09/16

“There's this line in Hamilton,'Let's have a drink, the four of us. Tomorrow there'll be more of us.'And when I started out in green buildings, it definitely felt like there were just four of us. Today there are many more of us on this journey."—Ben MyersMy HighlightsWhat sustainability means to each stakeholder and how to message it to them (6:54)Ben's working theory about what it takes to move the market and the 5, 15, 30, 50 rule (15:32)How BXP tracks their portfolio consumption, emissions,

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01:00:45

🎧 #067 - Trevor Pering on 3 ways Google is enabling...

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2021/09/09

"When the iPhone came in, the web was already there. With building systems, it's the other way around. You had a lot of technology in buildings, then we bolted the web on afterwards.That's a different direction, so it's trying to correct that and bring more web concepts in."—Trevor PeringMy HighlightsTrevor's focus at Google and differentiating the 3 types of IoT (5:56)Deep dive on DAQ - device automated qualification (13:26)Deep dive on MUD and the requirements for IoT networking (24:42)UDMI

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00:49:43

🎧 #066: Cara Carmichael on Our Roadmap to Zero Carbon...

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2021/09/02

"I am hopeful. I feel like we're coming together around this issue in a way that I've never experienced in the past. This is something that's within our power to do something about."—Cara Carmichael My HighlightsThe three reasons we need to decarbonize buildings (7:09)How the net-zero definition has changed over time (9:39)Part one of the roadmap: benchmarking and disclosure (12:38)Part two of the roadmap: MEPS and/or building energy codes (16:35)Part 3 of the roadmap: retrofitting 4% of our

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00:54:13

🎧 #065: Troy Harvey on the Quantum Digital Twin...

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2021/08/26

“There's never really been an API for buildings. And this is an impediment to every single corporation, every startup, every investor, the whole industry."—Troy Harvey My HighlightsAn update on PassiveLogic (1:43)Where we need to go and how Quantum helps get us there (9:29)What is the Quantum Digital Twin Standard? (13:43)Why Quantum was needed when we have Haystack, Brick, etc (19:00)What it means to embed Quantum into devices (25:16)The new concepts Quantum brings to the ontology effort

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00:52:13

🎧 #064: James McGinniss on DER technology and the...

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2021/08/19

“The grid is starting to look a lot like the internet. These IOT devices are distributed, digital, user owned and operated nodes. They can buy from the grid, they can sell from the grid, they can respond dynamically.These nodes are increasing ten, a hundred, a thousand fold over the next decade, which has really interesting implications for how we'll operate the grid going forward."—James McGinnissMy HighlightsWhat are DERs? (8:59)How DERs are changing the electric grid (10:11)David Energy's

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00:47:17

🎧 #063: Ryan Morris and Marti Ogram on Turntide's...

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2021/08/12

“The issue with energy efficiency is that while it may be civilization's largest collective problem, for any individual business it's like their 12th biggest problem."—Ryan Morris My HighlightsHow Turntide was founded as Software Motor Company (7:25)How the Turntide motor tech differs from what's in buildings today (11:09)Ryan's concept of engineering clu-de-sacs (16:55)The story of Riptide's founding out of Cisco in the early 2010s and why it improved upon the legacy BMS (18:01)Where Turntide is

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00:53:11

🎧 #062: Jon Clarke on leading Dexus' smart buildings...

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2021/08/05

“I see of lot of people buying apps before they bought the smart phone. So our smart building strategy is to first build the smartphone foundation."—Jon Clarke My HighlightsJon's experience as a contractor, consultant, and customer; how they're different and can work together (12:45)How and why the industry will shift from technology getting pushed on owners to owners doing the pushing. (21:33)Dexus' smart building strategy (26:01)What they've learned from 5+ years of FDD and where they're headed

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00:42:25

🎧 #061: Why technology in buildings is decades behind

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2021/07/29

“You built a building 25 years ago, and the stuff you put in there, it’s still there.” -Keith Berkoben of Google"For consumer facing technology, you know, people talk about the market working in all kinds of mysterious ways, but if you don't have a feedback path, the market doesn't work.”- Andrew Rodgers of ACE IoT“So you have this fundamental difference of perspective, where the people who ran the companies saw technology is a risk and a cost. And then you had the markets saying, well, I'm not

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01:00:39

🎧 #060: Jacinda Lofland on success with Tenant...

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2021/07/22

“You have the people that are using the buildings and those are the people that we all spend time thinking about, but a lot of time it's just trying to guess at what they want.And I just think that there's this real opportunity, with the technology that we have available today, to hear directly from them on what they want."—Jacinda LoflandHighlightsHow real estate is changing: it's no longer just a box... it's a product people use (7:15)How engagement was done in the past, what is net promoter

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00:54:28

🎧 #059 - Cisco DeVries on gamifying grid flexibility...

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2021/07/15

“If you get utility rate payers to act together like a symphony and reduce their energy a little bit at these key times, that net effect is actually remarkable."-Cisco DeVries HighlightsCisco's response to John Oliver's segment on PACE (6:25)What is OhmConnect? (12:38)The two primary problems OhmConnect had to solve: engage consumers on one side and sell their aggregated demand on the other. (17:38)Why grid interaction in California is mostly focused on residential buildings right now. (25:21)The

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00:58:03

🎧 #058: Darlene Pope on the history of smart...

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2021/07/08

“So you start seeing this cross pollination, worlds colliding, the traditional digital workplace applications with the traditional smart building solutions.We started working with our clients on helping them connect the dots on both sides of the house and the value. Not just from an operations standpoint, but from a space management standpoint,and most importantly, from an employee experience standpoint. That's when you start to really get to my definition of a smart building.My definition of a

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00:47:20

🎧 #057: Mandi Wedin on ESG+R as a driver for smart...

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2021/07/01

“We take that value creation reframe and we look at it through two ROI lenses. The traditional finance lens, which is return on investment, to understand the financial benefits.And then the second is a relevance assessment lens, which is the risk of ignoring your risk of being left behind. And so when we apply these two ROI perspectives, you find opportunities to create the value, to innovate."—Mandi Wedin My HighlightsWhat is ESGR and what are some examples (6:01)How ESG, and the E specifically,

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00:57:27

🎧 #056: Sabine Lam unpacks Google's Building...

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2021/06/24

"You feel like you're tackling an impossible problem because you're looking at such a broad set of solutions or in our case, now we're looking at such a broad set of manufacturers, and so many devices in our building, and every building is different. How can you ever address that?We'll just address everything and then move forward with whomever is willing to move forward with you. It could be at a regional level or a certain manufacturer who understands what you want to accomplish, they totally buy

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00:56:15

🎧 #055: Ruairí Barnwell on designing and...

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2021/06/17

"So you live or die by the data at the end of the day, not the sticker on the front door."—Ruairi BarnwellMy HighlightsWe need Building Intelligence Groups in every city (7:13)How we can overcome the challenges with the traditional design process (21:00)How owners are seeing the need for the IDL and how Nexus is spurring collaboration and community (26:08)Summarizing the past year of IAQ and rating system confusion (31:45)How building owners/landlords and tenants are investing in IAQ data (37:59)IAQ

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01:00:59

🎧 #054: Ben Birnbaum on why solving climate means...

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2021/06/10

"So that's how we got here... we were focused on enabling this massive energy retrofit opportunity or enabling people to implement this zero costs down energy savings. But then I realized there's no point if buildings don't have the infrastructure in place for that.”—Ben BirnbaumMy HighlightsWhy Ben is a superconnector (14:27)Ben's 3 "Holy Grails" or massive opportunities: Project/Asset Financing, No CapEx Solutions, and Fixing Controls (26:24)Why now is the time for this industry to transform

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00:57:09

🎧 #053: Jim Whalen reflects on the past and future of...

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2021/06/03

“The point of Nirvana is to have a self-tuning, self-commissioning building that is completely adapting itself (based on) the outside conditions and internal conditions of a building. That is clearly an endgame here that we're all after, but that is only one aspect of what you're talking about in terms of the investment you make.”—Jim WhalenMy HighlightsHow Jim thinks about building tech in three interrelated buckets (13:49)The landlord-tenant split incentive and how it makes technology a challenge

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00:57:44

🎧 #052: Rob Huntington on the shift to Converged...

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2021/05/27

“The sun is setting on building management systems as we know it and change is coming through building operating systems and packaged equipment control, which when delivered will eliminate the need for field fitted BMS control altogether.”—Rob HuntingtonMy HighlightsHow Jim thinks about building tech in three interrelated buckets (13:49)The landlord-tenant split incentive and how it makes technology a challenge and how we're very early in solving it (17:47)A smart buildings endgame (23:44)Boston

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00:42:55

🎧 #051: Rachel Kennedy on digital device discovery...

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2021/05/20

The digital readiness score is our way of quickly highlighting whether the building is ready (for new technology). We’re looking at network communication speed, the data density from the number of devices and points, the data accessibility based on the protocols, and the scope of the digital systems. And that's been allowing us to say, “yes, you’re digital ready”.—Rachel KennedyMy HighlightsWhat is Dx³ and why did Switch develop it (6:34)The digital-readiness score (12:30)The diverse skill sets and

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01:18:26

🎧 #050: Shaun Cooley on one API for your building

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2021/05/13

“The fact that other industries were being solved with an API, it really made sense to create this single layer that takes on all the historic complexity and abstracts it away into that API, so that everyone doesn't have to keep repeating the exact same task over and over again.”—Shaun Cooley My HighlightsHow Jim thinks about building tech in three interrelated buckets (13:49)The landlord-tenant split incentive and how it makes technology a challenge and how we're very early in solving it (17:47)A

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