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Anuj Kadyan stepped into the CBRE CTO seat in early 2026 from a McKinsey Partner role leading the firm's enterprise technology and AI practice. The 90-day discovery he will run inside the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm is the…
Healthcare has FHIR. Banking has Plaid. Web platforms have OpenAPI. Commercial real estate has BACnet (1995), Modbus (1979), LonWorks (1991), KNX (1990), and OPC UA — five overlapping standards, none of them a unified application layer, and a…
Companion piece to the AI-HVAC Implementation Guidebook . The Guidebook stays vendor-neutral and shows the 7-step pilot-to-production path. This piece runs in its own BACnet/IoT pillar — it explains why that 7-step path is unusually hard in CRE, and…
The launch of a 1000+ member AI skills course inside the CRE practitioner community is not a feature signal — it is a market verdict on the deployment gap. PwC pegs the production-deployment rate of CRE AI pilots at 5%.
Filed against the May 2026 CMBS-distress headlines. The short version: a Class-A coastal stock with AI-tenant inquiry is not a distressed asset — it's a retrofit opportunity that needs a different MEP profile.
The EU AI Act high-risk-AI obligations covering building automation become enforceable on August 2, 2026 — about 90 days from this post. Three independent signals reached convergence in the same week: (1) the EU AI Act 90-day cliff, (2) Johnson…
Inside thirty days (early April 2026 → May 2026), four named vendors shipped a conversational AI layer aimed at the HVAC operator: BrainBox AI ARIA (AWS Bedrock + Claude), Altus ARGUS Assist (in-app on the ARGUS valuation platform, with…
Reading CapitaLand's reported 16.4% CapEx reduction as an APAC AI-CRE datapoint — what it validates, and what it doesn't.
Inside 60 days (Mar 2026 → late Apr 2026), four named CRE intelligence platforms — Cherre , VTS Asset Intelligence , Altus ARGUS Assist , and Yardi Virtuoso Spring 2026 — converged on the same architectural shape: a horizontal CRE-data platform with…