Building Operations

Smart Buildings: Digital Twins, Edge BMS and PoE Raise Questions

Recent coverage of digital twins, edge computing and Power over Ethernet points to a common theme: adoption depends on process and integration ownership.

Smart buildings are being judged on avoided downtime, not dashboards

ABB case studies and new facilities research point to the same shift: smart building programs are being judged on avoided downtime, not prettier BMS screens.

Frisco’s indoor digital twins show where smart buildings really begin

Frisco, Texas, turned indoor mapping for school response into a building-ops asset. The bigger signal: keeping the data current, not the modeling, is the hard part.

Facilities teams are being asked to run security like an ops system

Facilities management and security leaders are converging around access control modernization, service-network models, and continuity planning.

Digital twins are making BAS teams clean up naming and data before HVAC upgrades

Early adopters say digital twins fail without clean BAS data. That’s reshaping how ops teams scope HVAC electrification and controls rollouts.

DOE's Commercial Buildings Integration program targets 30% energy cut by 2030, what it means for facility and operations teams

The DOE program targeting a 30% reduction in commercial building energy intensity has direct implications for facility, procurement, and ops leaders.

Facilities directors should audit their emergency response vendor this July

July is a natural inflection point for facilities directors. Budgets are mid-cycle, summer maintenance windows are open, and severe weather season is in full swing. It is also, according to restoration and reconstruction professionals, one of the best times of year to take a hard look at whether you

ABB and Samsung unveil integrated smart building platform linking Ability Building Pro and SmartThings Pro

ABB and Samsung launched an integrated smart building platform on June 12, 2026, connecting SmartThings Pro with ABB Ability Building Pro across European pilot