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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. The rating was launched in April 2022.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

Adapted with permission from Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022). . The post Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning' appeared first on Corporate Knights. But there’s also a more urgent appeal, too: “You can save your city from drowning.”

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. So, I prefer wise buildings to smart buildings because we can go beyond statistical significance into a natural intelligence. And modern society has caught up with that, of course. How exciting. So I am really pleased about that.

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Sustainability is driving the IoT way beyond ROI

Stacey Higginbotham

In the meantime, cities such as New York and Chicago have laws on their books requiring the owners and/or operators of buildings in their cities to reduce those buildings’ carbon footprints by measurable amounts. And last week, Johnson Controls acquired a network security company for smarter buildings.

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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.