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First in the World: Irish-Owned Ethos Engineering Earns Well Performance Rating for Dublin HQ “Living Lab”

3BL Media

Ethos pioneered a Living Lab initiative using its own HQ in Sandyford, Dublin as a testing ground, installing several smart building technologies and sensors that significantly enhance the amount of information that a building can provide.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While typical green roofs function like sponges and look like gardens, Rotterdam is working with public and private landlords to develop a “green-blue grid.” The tanks, in turn, are equipped with electronic drain valves that can be opened and closed remotely, in some cases via a smart phone app. .

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

The other thing that happened, I won a competition in Warsaw for a skyscraper right before the change of government; I had designed a building. The developer said, "You win." It was such a strange thing to tell the developer to do that it ended up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. And I said, "Just one thing.

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IoT news of the week for January 14, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

Honeywell and Alcavio are launching the Honeywell Threat Defense Platform, which is designed to detect threats in the operational technology networks of smart buildings. Remember how I said smart buildings are going to be a thing? Most TOS are as long as book one of “Lord of the Rings.” And I don’t blame you.