2026 is the year the building digital twin stops being a 3D dashboard and starts closing control loops. The market has crossed from pilot to production — but most of what vendors will sell you this year is still a visualization twin: a pretty model…
In January 2026 Taiwan started charging data centers a tiered electricity tariff — discounts for PUE under 1.3, surcharges up to 20% for the inefficient — while regulators across APAC quietly rewrote the deal: you no longer just buy grid capacity…
Willow, CIM and Facilio are three widely used smart building platforms that solve different problems. Willow builds a digital twin of a property's data. CIM analyses building performance and energy to cut operating cost.
PropTech capital is no longer rewarding software that helps your facilities team work faster — it is rewarding software that does the work without them.
The short version. A new capital-formation model — the "GP Studio" — is forming fast around emerging commercial real estate operators. It takes co-GP or operating-company equity in differentiated small managers and hands them the back office so they…
The 2026 sensor-fusion story is not "add more sensors." It is "trust the sensors you already fused." Single-modality occupancy detection still tops out around 43% accuracy on hard cases; disciplined fusion of PIR + CO₂ + motion + door state pushes…
Standards Why 88% of Smart Building Pilots Fail (And the Fix) Most pilot failures aren't technology failures — they're governance failures. A trial-based framework with IPMVP-grade gates changes the math.
Two things landed in the last nine months that change how anyone running a data center hall has to think about measurement and verification (M&V). First, the U.S.
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.