Through Q1 2026, sensor fusion in commercial buildings has crossed an architectural line. Vendors that used to bolt WiFi, BLE, and CO₂ feeds onto their primary hardware are now shipping them as native fusion sources — managed inside one platform…
PropTech venture capital just executed one of the cleanest sector rotations in recent memory — from "AI assists humans" to "AI does the work." In January 2026 alone, the sector pulled in roughly $1.7 billion (up 176% YoY), and Q1 2026's $281M across…
For two decades, IPMVP Option D — calibrated simulation — was the protocol no banker would accept. Too many knobs, too much modeller discretion, no clean counterfactual.
Until Q1 2026, "Building-as-a-Service" was a vendor pitch. As of May 2026 it is becoming a procurement category with code-level scaffolding. Italy's UNI 11973:2025 is the first national BaaS standard.
Three near-simultaneous moves — Johnson Controls' April 27 Nantum AI acquisition with Q3 2026 commercial rollout, the Trane / BrainBox AI Lab opening this month in Montreal, and Singapore's enforcement of mandatory PUE ≤ 1.3 on its $27B data center…
Three independent decarbonisation regimes — Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) stranding curves, Singapore's Mandatory Energy Improvement (MEI) regime, and California SB 253 — all reach hard enforcement in 2026.
CBRE's 2026 Global Workplace & Occupancy Insights — drawn from 303 million sq ft of client portfolio data — clocked global average peak office utilization at 80% for the first time since 2020, with average daily utilization at 53% (up from 38% in…
On April 13, 2026, Autodesk named Globant its official Tandem Digital Twin Solution Provider for airports, smart buildings, and logistics — the clearest institutional signal yet that digital twins have left the pilot lab and entered enterprise…
PJM's 2026/27 capacity auction cleared at the cap of $329.17/MW-day — a 22% spike on top of last year's record. Bills land June 2026. Data centers drove ~40% of that $16.4B cost.