28-The $20 Million Legal Dispute That Changed Construction's Daily Report
A lack of documentation almost cost Peter Lasensky, founder of Command Post, $20 million. His response? He invented a simple, contemporaneous documentation tool using a Nextel walkie-talkie in 2001. H...
16 Maalis 21min
27 Got sensors? Got IoT? Got “smart buildings”?
Then why can’t you keep ice cream at the right temperature?Everyone imagines ice cream melting , but the real operational killer is often the opposite: the freezer goes too cold, product gets freezer ...
1 Helmi 10min
26 Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings
Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings: Mentorship & BumblebeesAfter more than five decades in the building automation industry, Ken Sinclair has seen it all, from brass pneumatic thermostats and refrig...
27 Tammi 27min
25 Stop Protecting the Hill
Data Sharing, IP, and the Future of BuildingsJohn Turner brings decades of hard-earned experience across major global organizations, working from the owner side, leading digital transformation, and pu...
25 Tammi 20min
24 Are we living in a simulation? In building AI: yes!
Because the real world hasn’t fully come to the table yet.At NeurIPS Urban AI, I spoke with Fabian Raisch (TU Rosenheim/TU Munich), whose research targets scalable AI-based building control with signi...
22 Tammi 9min
23 NVIDIA Urban AI
In this Café ZAi conversation, Kimon Onuma speaks with Zheng (Thomas) Tang from NVIDIA about how synthetic data, computer vision, and digital twins are teaching AI to understand buildings, warehouses,...
15 Joulu 202512min
22 Teaching an AI How to Learn About HVAC
Donna Vakalis, a postdoc researcher at Mila, Quebec AI Institute, focuses on reducing climate emissions from buildings using AI. Her work involves optimizing HVAC systems without extensive data, emplo...
10 Joulu 202512min
