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Digital Twins Just Crossed the Procurement Line: Autodesk–Globant Signal + APAC Playbook

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…

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Grid Energy 2026: The 22% PJM Spike, CAISO EDAM Launch, and a 90-Day GEB Playbook

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.

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Q1 2026 PropTech Capital Pulse: Where Smart Money Concentrated and What Owner-Operators Should Steal

Q1 2026 proptech funding hit $3.3B (+64% YoY), but the top 10 deals captured ~62% of that capital — roughly $2B concentrated in vertically integrated, AI-native platforms with measurable financial outcomes.

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BaaS Platform Wars 2026: The Three Deployment Archetypes That Will Decide Your Next 10 Years

Building-as-a-Service platforms have crystallized into three dominant deployment patterns in 2026 — overlay AI (Trane/BrainBox), full-stack autonomous (PassiveLogic), and enterprise EPM (Johnson Controls OpenBlue, Honeywell Forge).

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AI-HVAC's 2026 Inflection: Trane-BrainBox, DRL Beats ASHRAE G36, and the APAC Grid Reframe

Q2-2026 as the AI-HVAC inflection point — acquisition, published trial results, and the APAC grid reframe read together.

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The 2026 Embodied Carbon Reckoning — A 90-Day Playbook for APAC CRE Portfolios

Four 2026 events have collapsed embodied carbon from a "next-cycle" disclosure problem into a current-quarter asset-value problem. GRESB now scores it (–8 to 0 point hits on Development).

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Where CRE PropTech Capital Is Going in 2026: The AI Building OS Bet

Q1 2026 saw $3.3 billion flow into proptech — a 64% jump year-over-year across 125 deals. The headline number is impressive, but the more important signal is where that capital went.

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PropTech Capital Flows: Where Smart Money Is Moving in Q1 2026

Key Takeaways: PropTech funding is rebounding — January 2026 hit $1.7B (up 176% YoY) and February added $1.04B across 38 deals. Capital is rotating hard toward AI-native platforms, with AI-focused companies capturing 30-50% of new funding vs.

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PropTech VC Funding Q1 2026: Capital Returns to Smart Buildings

After a Two-Year Drought The $1.7 billion that flowed into PropTech in January 2026 alone — a 176% year-over-year increase — marks the clearest signal yet that institutional capital has re-engaged with the built environment after a prolonged…

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