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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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01:18:01

🎧 #049: Rob Brimblecombe on taking Monash University...

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2021/05/06

“I used to chase kilowatt-hours and now I'm chasing renewable energy.”—Rob Brimblecombe My HighlightsHow Rob spearheaded the university's 100% renewables goal (12:56)How Monash defines Net Zero and how they're getting off gas (19:03)No longer chasing kilowatt-hours (32:00)How South Australia Water makes money off of demand flexibility (33:57)Good control means good grid economics (36:34)H ow appliance selection is the key to Passive House design (38:52)Proving the value of data modeling (50:23)Why

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00:47:58

🎧 #048: Andrew Rodgers on the independent data layer...

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2021/04/29

“I talk about market transformation forces. I think Volttron has that potential, not necessarily that everyone's going to adopt Volttron, but the fact that this open platform that exists that has some of these functionalities… It’s like a pressure source… to move the needle.”–Andrew Rodgers My HighlightsDefining the independent data layer (8:20)Deep dive into Volttron (16:06)Updates from the field: Grid interaction (27:10), Advanced supervisory control (37:32)Some closing thoughts on market

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01:21:51

🎧 #047: Shen Chiu on Investa Property Group's smart...

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2021/04/22

“I don't have a single one-liner, 25-words-or-less elevator pitch about what a smart building is. Every building is going to be different.What value are you trying to get out of it? And then I'll tell you what the smart building looks like. "—Shen Chiu 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 smart buildings endgame (23:44)Boston

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01:04:36

🎧 #046: The WiredScore team on what makes a building...

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2021/04/15

“Future readiness… this isn't about guessing that 5G is the future on this particular frequency, and I'm going to put that in my building and put all my eggs in that basket. It's about: how do we take a step back and make sure that as and when these technologies mature to a level that they're a definite ‘must have’ in a building, that I, as a landlord, can rapidly evolve the way my building is set up to deliver those features?”–Sanj Ranasinghe HighlightsThe founding story of WiredScore: Making it

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00:57:37

🎧 #045: Leon Wurfel on how analytics can scale and...

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2021/04/08

“I think where the industry needs to get to is… looking at how best to service a portfolio, rather than the kind of one-to-one [management team to building] relationship. And there's a tipping point of scale where it's not even like a business case anymore, it's like an IQ test as to whether you've got that different [portfolio-scale] operational model in place. But I think like what the technology is doing is lowering that barrier to entry, that crossover point where having a centralized

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01:21:29

🎧 #044: John Petze on Tridium's early days, founding...

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2021/04/01

“So I know that's your favorite question and you want me to answer it, but I I'd reword it: Why is the adoption of technology behind? I won't go to say the technologies behind because this industry invented a lot of firsts.”—John Petze My HighlightsJohn’s career history (2:02)Why technology adoption is so far behind: split everything (21:02)The history of Tridium (24:21)SkyFoundry: how and why SkySpark came to be, and where it’s going (35:27)The shiny object problem with graphics (58:24)The past,

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00:51:48

🎧 #043: Scott Ellison on smart building startups,...

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2021/03/25

“There's a mentality, at least in Silicon Valley that says, ‘Hey, we're just going to run in like a bull in a China shop and disrupt… Disrupt, disrupt, disrupt.’ If you're a startup and you do that in this sector, you're just going to be one of a number of other companies off on the side of the road in a ditch."–Scott Ellison My HighlightsWhy is technology behind (it’s potential) (5:02)The 80s playbook (13:19)Scott’s consulting work, with some background on early-stage start ups (16:19)Why now, for

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01:02:52

🎧 #042: Aaron Lapsley on Smart Building Strategy, six...

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2021/03/18

“Buildings are not bonds… The key difference that I think a huge amount of the real estate industry does not appreciate is that a building is a product that people have to use. So it is a fixed income asset, but it is also a product that people need to be in, you know, for you to make money as an owner. And that is really, really evident right now.”–Aaron Lapsley My HighlightsAaron walks us through his unique resume in the energy and buildings space (2:21)The need/gap System2 filled (6:37)Most

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00:54:22

🎧 #041: Anand Mecheri on a toolkit for building...

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2021/03/11

“I was very quickly disappointed once I realized there was a huge gap between the promise and the reality of BIM… The reality was that BIM was, is still largely used for drawing production, right? It's used for coordination, clash detection, and drawing production. "–Anand Mecheri My HighlightsAnand’s past companies, all sold to Siemens (1:41)James’ favorite question (4:08)The problem and opportunity Anand saw in BIM (6:10)Deeper dive on Invicara (11:28)Rapid fire myth-busting on digital twins

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01:06:13

🎧 #040: Jeremy Macdonald on sustainability, ESG, and...

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2021/03/04

“The more time we spend going to answer a hot/cold call, the less time we spend taking care of key issues and making sure the facilities really runs right. And you can't send a person around fast enough to check all the things that your technology solution can check. It's just not even practical to think of all the different things… So there is a huge payback for every single person that tries to do monitoring-based commissioning. It hasn't really failed yet… Um, I'll go back on that. Failure points

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01:08:59

🎧 #039: Adam Kaufman on the vital role of the...

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2021/02/25

“We've solved so many things where the engineering staff has been like, ‘I bet you this was going on for 10 years.’ It's been happening forever… whether that's a damper, whether the fans are running 24/7, whatever's broken. It's just really good at identifying things that would not otherwise be identified.”—Adam Kaufman My HighlightsWhy this university decided to pursue analytics (5:30)A history of software collecting dust on a virtual shelf (12:12)Universities’ place on the analytics adoption curve

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00:50:00

🎧 #038: Rajavel Subramanian on the 3 types of...

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2021/02/18

“Because that large scale technology transformation hasn’t happened, that’s probably the cause of outdated business models, lack of IT skillsets, lack of ownership of technology initiatives and leaving it to vendors, etc. It was once the same for other industries. I think the building owners themselves will be the champions of this change.”–Rajavel Subramanian My Highlightswhy buildings are so far behind, and lessons learned from the paths taken by IT & telecom industries (4:05)a brief refresher on

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00:48:13

🎧 #037: Shannon Smith on making analytics a...

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2021/02/11

“Every building owner is on their own path and it’s our job as an industry to meet them where they are on that path, not to yell at them from the end of the path, telling them that they're losers, if they're not over here.”—Shannon SmithMy HighlightsHow Shannon got sucked into BMS (2:59)A ‘violent’ agreement with past answers to James’ favorite question + a unique take from Shannon’s finance perspective: debt mentality (6:55)Drivers of change: talent drain, tenant focus, COVID (10:52)Deep dive on

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01:02:50

🎧 #036: Josh Adams on digital twins and partnerships...

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2021/02/04

“I think that leveraging both is incredibly important. You need the software to be modular enough to merge everything together. But you need a willingness for partnerships to then leverage the benefits that come out of that.”—Josh Adams My HighlightsA new answer to the new favorite question: partnerships (9:05)What innovation looks like within the Big Four (13:49)An alternative to disruption; service contracts as an opportunity to innovate (17:36)Diving into Josh’s concept of digital twins, grounded

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00:58:00

🎧 #035: Matt Golden on capturing the grid benefits of...

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2021/01/28

“This is like the moral compass to our industry, right? We're totally fixated on customer benefits and savings; and in order to pivot so we are also considering grid benefits and GHGs, we need to make them valuable, and this is how we do it…”—Matt Golden My HighlightsDiving into the ‘old world’ of utility incentives (8:51)Introducing the new model of mutual benefits (11:31)The struggle for standardized methods (17:00)The challenge of EM&V during COVID (29:19)Defining the buzzwords: virtual power

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01:03:48

🎧 #034: Brian Turner on the Ontology Wars and the...

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2021/01/21

"We can’t try to bring them all [ontologies] together. We can’t make them all one. What we need to do is really focus on delivering the outcomes and delivering the use cases, and then have data engineers worry about how to normalize that data. Because at the end of the day, the ontology doesn't deliver any outcome. It only enables, right? It's not an outcome.”–Brian Turner My HighlightsNew year, new favorite question (5:17)Digging into Buildings IOT’s offerings: the ontology alignment project (OAP),

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00:55:18

🎧 #033: Ping Yao on smart building networks and the...

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2021/01/14

"It's not a technology question. It's not a performance problem. It's a people problem. If a new building is being built… and the owner says, “I want my OT system, security cameras, lighting, elevators… etc. to be on my IT network,” the simple question to ask is: is IT now going to be responsile for the construction phase and all the responsibilities of OT? "—Ping Yao My HighlightsPing explains the impetus for founding Optigo Networks (1:49)Answer to James’ favorite question (8:28)The average

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00:55:38

🎧 #032: Erik Ubels' insights from The Edge

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2021/01/07

"If there’s one thing that makes the success of a smart building, it is the combination of real estate, facilities, IT, hospitality, all those people in one organization that basically report to [the same person]… [And] if these people understand that they’re not building this building for themselves, but for the future employees of their company, then that makes a lot of difference.”—Erik Ubels My HighlightsErik answers James’ favorite question: industry fragmentation, cost-cutting, and passing the

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00:42:57

🎧 #031: Why technology in buildings is decades behind

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2020/12/17

“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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00:53:48

🎧 #030: Microsoft's emerging smart building...

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2020/12/10

“I think it’s a huge issue that people face when they’re dealing with digital twins: it’s very easy to get lost in the art of the possible, or even just the academia of a digital twin… And the possibilities are, I guess we could call it endless. That might be cliche, but the key to actually unlocking that value is getting started somewhere.”–Matthew Vogel You can find Matthew Vogel on LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube or read on the web.Get full access to Nexus.

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