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“smart wave” on the rise, it is possible to
achieve truly autonomous buildings. With
autonomous buildings, companies will be
able to reach the utopian goal of reducing
energy consumption, downtime and staff
levels, but also provide service on demand
and rules-based performance management.
Already, the benefits of digitalisation
in terms of building performance manage-
ment are being felt around the world. For
example, companies are already making
energy bill cuts in the neighbourhood of
10–15%; and savings of 30% are not uncom-
mon, either.
However, the trick with new systemic
technology is that you never exactly know
where it’s going to go. Real estate industry
is not really known for its progressive mind-
set, so the changes may take some time. On
the other hand, once disruption does hit, it
may have huge consequences.
Let the Games Begin
One potential application of the digital
approach is using gaming to engage the real
estate users. Verneri Lehtovirta from Sweco
gave a presentation at RE Finland at Tam-
pere about a gaming application which used
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