Reopening a commercial building during or after a crisis requires the careful monitoring of site trend data such as air quality and usage and great corporate communications to make occupants feel as safe as possible. Your customers and employees are probably curious about the safety of their sites and might be asking questions about usage, cleaning regularity and air quality. Now more than ever, building data is essential for answering occupant concerns.
From building occupancy and lighting systems, to HVAC status and real-time opportunity-cost tracking, Switch Workspaces provide out-of-the-box and customizable Workspaces to visualize any dataset you can imagine. Workspaces translate your portfolio’s data sets and queries into valuable, actionable visualizations for corporate reporting, lobby screens or change management efforts.
“Communicating the health of your building doesn't have to be complicated. Workspaces support many aspects of a healthy space - start with the data you already have and add to your building health metrics over time as you incorporate new data sets or IoT technologies into your buildings.”
- Rebecca Reel, Director of Smart Building Engineering
“One of our marquis customers uses Workspaces to monitor and control all of their building systems performance from single pane of glass, regardless of equipment manufacturer, to inform their tenant comfort strategy. Especially right now, they’re watching IAQ, HVAC and lighting data to bolster transparency with staff and customers about healthy workplaces.”
- Peter Rake, Global Director of Integration
“Being able to visualize different types of building data with differing degrees of granularity for customers and internal stakeholders is powerful as we return to the office. We should assume that most large tenants now know what building performance monitoring is and why it matters to the health of their workforce. For example, elevator usage is particularly controversial at the moment and this is absolutely something that Switch Workspaces can capture.”
– Patti Mason, Chief of People, Culture and Impact
“Knowing that at least one person on my team has their eye on our buildings’ occupancy and can guarantee that every site is currently adhering to our local government’s 50% maximum occupation guideline is a huge weight off my mind from a legal standpoint.”
Matthew, Regional Facilities Manager
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This e-book explains how the right smart building platform can facilitate the green building certification process, streamlining communications between departments and across different sources, to help you efficiently measure progress, create performance benchmarks and determine how to conserve resources.
This e-book explains what effect global crises can have on real estate asset value. Discover how smart building tech can reduce operating costs and increase asset value while still delivering a safe, comfortable tenant experience.
We partnered with smart buildings expert and author of “Smarter Buildings. Better Experiences.,” Bruce Duyshart, to create this comprehensive roadmap to guide your strategic smart buildings program strategy development.
As a building manager you’re constantly juggling competing priorities like rising energy costs, pressure to save money, facility management staff cuts, tenant demands, investor and board expectations and more.
This e-book explains why remote building analysis, reporting and control is essential during a global crisis. Receive practical advice on how to use smart building tech to adjust your operations, reducing operating and energy costs while still delivering a safe, comfortable tenant experience for essential workers.
This white paper explores the meaning of the term “smart building,” and the value associated with investing in a smart building program. It presents best practices for creating a smart building program and utilizing connected, IoT technology across a portfolio.
As climate change intensifies, the urgency to act on one of our biggest levers—energy use in commercial and retail buildings—has never been clearer. Every kilowatt saved is a step closer to sustainability, slashing greenhouse gas emissions while moving us toward essential climate goals. Whether you’re overseeing a retail portfolio or managing a single commercial space, boosting energy efficiency doesn’t just cut costs—it creates healthier, more comfortable spaces for everyone. Now is the time to act.
Smart building technology is constantly evolving and improving, and there are several trends that are expected to take center stage in 2023.
When it comes to being a building owner or operator, you have a lot to balance.
