Smart Buildings Magazine Features
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Balancing space optimization and energy efficiency with return-to-office mandates
Caroline Ruhland, product marketing lead at Accruent looks at how office use have changed forever.
10 August 2026 -
How facilities managers can stay cool about air conditioning costs
Tom Meredith, senior corporate development manager, SEFE Energy looks at how costs have changed as the climate heats up.
06 August 2026 -
Data center engineering: When security shapes the building
Tertius Wolfaardt, architecture & engineering manager at Axis Communications, examines how early security design can support operational insight, whole-life performance and trust.
04 August 2026 -
The cost of asking a building to think
Smart buildings have always had an operating cost. The batteries in sensors need replacing, networks need maintaining, software licences renew, and systems integration rarely remains finished for long. Artificial intelligence introduces another cost category, one that is (potentially) much harder to control - the cost of computation.
01 August 2026 -
Round table; Inside the smart buildings channel: Why nobody agrees on what "good" looks like
At a recent industry roundtable hosted by Schneider Electric and Smart Buildings Magazine, consultants, system integrators, distributors, and manufacturers sat down to discuss how the channel creates value for the smart buildings community — and what's getting in the way. The answer depends entirely on where you sit in the chain. That, several participants agreed, is the problem.
28 July 2026 -
Managing cyber-physical risk in smart buildings
Peter Schwartz, senior technology consultant at cybersecurity expert OryxAlign, explains why organisations need to rethink how they manage cyber-physical risk in connected buildings.
27 July 2026
