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Articles

• Modeling Building Automation and Control Systems (May 2013)

• Lessons from Smart Devices: What They Mean for Smart Buildings (April 2013)

• Mind the Gap: Monitoring Conveyance Systems (Mar 2013)

• Indoor Positioning: We Know Where You Are (Feb 2013)

• Predictions for Smart Buildings in 2013 (Jan 2013)

• The Role of Architects in a Smart Building (Dec 2012)

• Security Issues with Integrated Smart Buildings (Nov 2012)

• Using DC Power in Buildings and Ending the War of Currents (Oct. 2012)

• The Road to Smarter Buildings: Moving to a Much Higher Level of Automation (Sept. 2012)
  

• Eight Building System Integration Tips (August 2012)

• The Future Building Management System (July 2012)

• Building Your Own Grid (June 2012)
• Spring Cleaning's To-Do List for Facility Managers (May 2012)
• The Smartest Green Building (April 2012)
• Maintaining High Performance Control Systems (March 2012)
• Inside the Killer App for Buildings & Energy Management: Fault Detection & Diagnostics (Feb 2012)
• Going Up: Elevators, Control Systems & Energy (Dec 2011)
• Critical Mass: The Unstoppable Momentum for Open & Integrated Building Systems (Nov 2011)
• Building Analytics from a Different View:  Why Video Cameras are the Swiss Army Knife of Building Sensors (Oct 2011)
• The "Moon Shot" for Building Energy Performance (Sept 2011)
• The Challenge to Legacy Building Management Systems (Aug 2011)
• The Unheralded Network Topology (July 2011)
• Specifying Energy Management & Integration Software (July 2011)
• The Last Frontier of Building Systems: The Envelope & Structure (June 2011)
• The Management of Building System Data (...or the absence of) (May 2011)
• Integrated Systems Project Management Process (May 2011)
• Don't be Panicked by Alarm Management of Building Systems (April 2011)

• 8 Step Strategy to making existing buildings smart.

• 9 Tips On How To Obtain the Best Value in System Cabling

• Access Control Systems Adopt IP Ethernet and POE. - What's Next?

• Capex Happiness: Squeezing the redundancy out of the Construction Budget.
  
• Carbon Footprint and the Existing Building OCT
  
• Certification for Designers and Installers
  
• Commissioning Never Ends
  
• Coordinating a Good Technology Design
  
• Coordinating Design Integrated Building
  
• Drilling for Dollars
  
• Five Reasons Why Technology Needs to be a Part of a Facility Conditions Assessment
  
• Five Building Inefficiencies that are Business Opportunities
  
• Global Warming in the Data Center
  
• How Do We Measure the Performance of a Building?
  
• What Exactly is "Integration"?
  
• Technology Systems in Renovations
  
• Protocol Blenders and Information Creators
  
• Operations Center in Smart Buildings
  
• Integrated Systems Situation Management
  
• FDD Going Mainstream?  Who's Fault is It?
  
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Measurement & Verification
  
• Recommissioning Facility Management Organizations
  
• Occupying Yourself with Energy and Occupancy
  
• A Window into Shading and Electrically Switchable Glass
  
• Are There Too Many Choices for Wireless Building Systems?
  
• Wireless Meters: The Real Hotspot
  
• Dashboards for Buildings (November 2010)
  
• Making Money from Demand Response
  
• Building with Brains
  
• Designing an Integrated Building System
  
• The Handoff Between a Newly Constructed Building and Building Operations; How Not to Fumble