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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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01:02:27

🎧 #129: Decarbonizing New York City through Local Law 97

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2022/12/01

“The tools that have always been successful at instigating change are benchmarking and performance standards. Let's use those tools and evolve them to better fit the needs of today's definition of a high-performance building, which includes the carbon aspect, grid interactivity, and occupant responsiveness."—Molly Dee-RamasamyMy HighlightsJBB's background (6:25)Deep Carbon Reduction (7:55)Local Law 97's impact on the industry (9:36)Stories from the ground (18:15)Flight to quality and repositioning

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00:52:55

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

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2022/11/24

“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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01:09:52

🎧 #127: CRE Market Talk #1 with Mandi Wedin and Joe...

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2022/11/17

“Don't spend your time with the laggards who don't yet see the need for (smart building technology). When they see it they'll find you. Go find owners with a need and then meet that need."—Mandi WedinMy HighlightsThe macro perspective of commercial real estate investment (5:04)Types of real estate investment vehicles (10:12)Different issues real estate owners currently face (14:19)The solution for a frozen market (19:00)Current property level needs (25:33)Smart building fundamentals today

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01:14:42

🎧 #126: Decarbonization from the trenches

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2022/11/10

“There is another use case for smart building systems and for BAS, and it is critical input data for designing low-carbon systems for your building that if you don't have that data, you are not going to design your systems properly.They will probably be oversized and a lot more expensive than they need to be compared to as if you had good data to design on."—Brad WhiteMy HighlightsThe shift from energy management to decarbonization (7:05)Decarbonization roadmaps (14:36)The role of carbon accounting

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01:10:44

🎧 #125: Sara Neff on the roadmap to absolute zero carbon

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2022/11/03

“A building can only run as efficiently as its engineer knows how to run it. Unless you have an engineer-first mindset, none of your energy efficiency efforts is ever really going to reap the rewards."—Sara NeffMy HighlightsAbout Lendlease (4:47)Sara's role at Lendlease (6:25)Roadmap to net zero (12:07)Renewable procurement (22:22)Energy efficiency and deep energy retrofits (41:10)Carbon accounting today (48:48)Change management and internal leadership (50:44)Split incentive (56:32)Carveouts

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01:16:59

🎧 #124: Tearle Whitson Tells the Inside Story of...

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2022/10/27

“We can have all the technology in the world but dropping it into a building doesn't magically transform it. It ultimately is a tool. Your people can be empowered by this tool but it will never do everything for you.You have to set objectives, lean in and embrace the technology. You have to train your people and build the organization in a structure that supports it."—Tearle WhitsonMy HighlightsTearle’s background (2:24)"Teardown School" (19:49)Smart buildings grew up around Tearle and an overview

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01:16:48

🎧 #123: October 2022 M&A Roundup with J³

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2022/10/20

“There's definitely still venture capital money out there looking for great companies, especially in the smart building space. As long as you have a clear thesis and value proposition and your tech addresses a need of a building owner/operator, you're going to pass this deeper diligence with flying colors."—Jeanne CaseyMy HighlightsThe economic environment that startups are in today (4:46)To what extent are smart buildings insulated from market trends (15:42)Why downturn is a good time to build

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01:00:33

🎧 #122: Matt Ellis on the new business case for...

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2022/10/13

"Real estate owners buy and sell assets and drive yield. So we needed to reframe little "e", the discussion on electrons, and expand into big "E", environmental social governance. Doing so helped the real estate owner understand not commodities, but yield and risk in return."—Matt EllisMy HighlightsMeasurabl’s founding story (2:10)From "meter" to "market" (7:59)Journey to decarbonization (12:10)Point solutions vs. platforms (26:23)Why M&A and the platform approach are better than interoperability

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00:45:54

🎧 #121: Stacy Smedley on the Road to Zero Carbon...

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2022/10/06

“Step one (of 3) on reducing embodied carbon emissions is to start thinking about if we have to build a building at all. So if we just stopped building right now, there's plenty of empty space for us to put all that square footage into that we say we need. And beyond that, we have more than we need."—Stacy SmedleyMy HighlightsQuick overview of Stacy's background - lots of activities! (2:02)A primer on emissions from construction - What is embodied carbon? (8:31)LEED - why hasn't it scaled

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01:18:47

🎧 #120: Fixing Offsets and Decarbonizing Buildings...

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2022/09/29

“They're doing the same thing they did last year, but now it's called decarbonization. But the reality is, is that they are decarbonizing buildings. The work that we've been doing for 20 years is the right work to be doing we just don't have a metric to measure ourselves against and a way to value that work."—McGee YoungMy HighlightsThe problem and why McGee started WattCarbon (14:35)The transition from energy management to carbon (21:34)Connecting real-time carbon emissions data from the grid to

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01:13:29

🎧 #119: How service robots fit into the smart...

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2022/09/22

“We see an expansion of robots doing 80% of a job in the service sector, allowing humans to do what's complex."—Greg ScottMy HighlightsSRT Labs (5:00)Use cases for robots (11:17)"Smart" definitions in the context of robots (19:49)Robotic product adoption (23:14)Problems unique to the federal sphere (41:58)Map-based data collection (46:54)The parallels and connection points with smart buildings (55:42)SRT's full offering and how it’s helping campuses (1:01:43)“Platforms” (1:05:05)Carveouts

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01:09:05

🎧 #118: Simplifying decarbonization with Aaron Block

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2022/09/15

“There's a lot of complexity that goes into building a technology that simplifies things for people."—Aaron BlockMy HighlightsAaron’s background (2:50)The #1 way to unlock decarbonization of commercial buildings (17:19)The problem is complexity (28:16)How energy as a service differs from the ESCO model (38:55)Fuel switching (50:43)Current tech making it simple (55:05)Carveouts (1:03:11)You can find Aaron on LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube or read on the web.Get full access to Nexus.

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01:10:27

🎧 #117: 4 Steps to Sustainable Indoor Air Quality

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2022/09/08

“We can accomplish both sustainability and IAQ, but we need to think holistically. And we need to think in terms of layered strategies and frameworks."—Christian WeeksHighlightsenVerid's founding story (4:53)How enVerid's whitepaper came to be (18:53)Step 1: define goals (26:18)Defining acceptable IAQ and which metrics to monitor (32:01)CO2 (38:24)Step 2 - clean indoor air (43:35)Step 3 - optimize ventilation (49:44)Step 4 - monitor, validate, control (54:10)Determining ROI (1:02:37)Carveouts

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00:57:42

🎧 #116: Integrating "Smart" Into the Construction...

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2022/09/01

“In the beginning of their journey to a smart building, many of our clients are wondering what they need to buy to check the box.We've flipped that so that the conversation looks at the experiences, outcomes, and capabilities that are meaningful to the organization. Then we can look at the technology."—Charlie BuscarinoMy HighlightsCharlie’s background (2:43)Asking the smart building question (9:04)Use case scoring and prioritizing (15:45)Division 25 (22:51)The device layer (27:51)IDL platform

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01:08:20

🎧 #115: The role of the smart building consultant...

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2022/08/25

“My 80/20 rule is that it's 20% of technology—and there are a lot of technologies in a smart building. And it's 80% about people and human engineering."—Bruce DuyshartMy HighlightsBruce’s background (1:11)Meld's key projects (13:24)Horizontal architecture: converged network, data platform, apps (16:44)How Bruce defines a smart building (23:01)Bruce's 80/20 rule (27:50)The consultant’s role across the phases of a project (39:40)Consultant vs. designer vs. MSI vs. commissioning agent (53:58)Carveouts

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00:49:46

🎧 #114: Decarbonized Buildings Require Better Energy...

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2022/08/18

“I don't know as much as a tax consultant by a long shot, but for most cases with TurboTax, 90% of the cases, I was good. The 10% of the cases, I'm definitely not good and I will need a tax consultant and all of that good stuff. That was really what I wanted to build for the energy modeling community, where for the 90% of the cases we can get pretty darn close."—Sandeep AhujaMy Highlightscove.tool today (4:11)Building a successful sustainability consulting firm (9:47)Selling to architects (17:15)The

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01:04:04

🎧 #113: The Data Required for The Third Phase of ESG

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2022/08/11

“Why isn't everybody that's using energy accurately collecting data on the source of their energy and also the use of their energy? And then saying, what is the accurate carbon footprint of that energy? And what, if anything, should I be doing about it?"—Lincoln PaytonMy HighlightsThe founding story of Cleartrace (5:35)Why data is so important for decarbonization (11:22)How we go from old standards to gaining access to hourly energy and carbon data (27:15)How data can be used to plan out this

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00:48:45

🎧 #112: Demystifying 'Zero Trust'

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2022/08/04

“Complacency is no longer a viable option. If you're looking around and you're seeing your third parties getting carte blanche access to your networks inside of your building, it's time to do something about it. If you have open ports exposed to the public internet, it's time to do something about it. There's a better way to do it."—Jim AnthonyMy HighlightsHow were things done before Zero Trust (3:52)Zero Trust architecture (8:31)How this concept applies to who is taking responsibility (16:06)Use

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00:52:53

🎧 #111: Tenant apps: the why, what, and how with...

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2022/07/28

“I was building buildings. I was running a large portfolio. And the number one brick wall I kept running into was technology silos. There were 8 to 10 things I had to buy for everyone of those buildings, and they didn't talk to each other..."—Prasan KaleMy HighlightsFounding and acquisition story of Rise (5:48)What is VTS? (10:32)VTS acquired Lane Technologies (13:32)Use cases for integrations (21:31)Beacon technology (30:43)Tenant app impact on getting people back in the office (34:49)The analytics

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00:47:16

🎧 #110: The evolution of the access control system...

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2022/07/21

“In 1973, the value proposition was to keep bad people out. If no one has been shot in your building, it's working. That still remains, but the industry is evolving from that core principle."—Lee OdessMy HighlightsThe history of access control systems (3:26)Components to access control systems (7:42)The Six Phase Changes Shaping Access Control (24:23)The verticalization of occupant experience transforming the access control system (30:49)Business models in the access control of tomorrow

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