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The Building Data Openness Report Card v1

Ask twelve building-software vendors whether their platforms are open and you will get twelve yeses. This report card asks a narrower question: what does the public evidence support?

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The State of Building Data Interoperability 2026

The honest version, with estimates labeled as estimates. Pull the point list from any two office buildings and compare. One calls a supply-air temperature sensor AHU-3-SAT. The next calls the same physical thing SF03_DA_TMP.

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The APAC Building Data Interoperability Report 2026

Certification-rich, interoperability-poor: to our knowledge, the first building-data interoperability assessment written specifically for Asia-Pacific.

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Today in CRE

Today in CRE — June 13, 2026

Daily CRE intelligence — what changed for building owners and operators, verified before publishing. Today's signals № 01 BMS cyber surface keeps widening — 38% of smart buildings already attacked, 75% of orgs ru n KEV-affected BMS: a priority watch…

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Library Report

The Independent Data Layer Is the Real Building OS: Why 2026's Smart-Building Stack Starts Below the App

Every "AI for buildings" pitch you got this quarter quietly assumes something that most portfolios do not have: a clean, vendor-neutral data layer the model can actually read.

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Today in CRE

Today in CRE — June 12, 2026

Daily CRE intelligence — what changed for building owners and operators, verified before publishing. Today's signals № 01 BMS cyber surface keeps widening — 38% of smart buildings already attacked, 75% of orgs ru n KEV-affected BMS: a priority watch…

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AI Agents

AI Agents for Commercial Real Estate: A Practitioner's Field Guide (2026)

Most "AI agent for commercial real estate" guides are written by vendors selling one. This one is written by a practitioner who runs the measurement-and-verification (M&V) on live pilots across APAC and US portfolios — where the question is never…

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Library Report

AI-HVAC Crosses the Mandate Line: Taiwan's PUE 1.5 Regime Turns Cooling Optimization Into Compliance

For most of the last decade, AI-driven HVAC optimization was sold as an ROI story — "save 20-35% on cooling, pay it back in a year." In Taiwan, that pitch just became obsolete.

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Library Report

Comply or Retrofit: Singapore's MEI Regime Ends Voluntary Building Decarbonization in APAC

Singapore's Mandatory Energy Improvement (MEI) regime came into force in Q3 2025, and it changes the question facility managers should be asking. The old question was "Should we pursue a green certification?" The new one is "Is our building…

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