The race to modernize commercial buildings is accelerating, fueled by mounting business pressures related to carbon footprint, resource stewardship and ESG (environment/social/governance), along with factors like C-suite directives to optimize space for the post-pandemic hybrid work era.
As facility managers mobilize to bring their buildings and infrastructure into the digital age, one resource in particular will be critical to their ability to meet the sustainability goals that are driving many of their modernization projects. It’s a resource you can’t touch or drive a screw into: data. In fact, data could well be among an operator’s most important assets in the effort to reduce carbon footprint, use resources more efficiently and maximize return on their assets.
There’s growing urgency for them to do so. According to the World Green Building Council (WGBC), the building construction sector is globally responsible for 36 percent of energy consumption, 38 percent of energy-related carbon emissions and 50 percent of resource consumption. What’s more, about 30 percent of the energy used in commercial buildings is wasted, according to figures cited by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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