The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast, we continue our multipart series on cyber security.

In today's episode we are going to dive deeper into exploit phase, which is the second phas…

Estimating building automation work can be very difficult. You have so many moving parts and pieces that can affect your project cost. In this Smart Buildings Academy Podcast series, we are going t…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy, we are going to discuss how to identify energy and sustainability centered buyers.

It should be no surprise that building owners are focused on sustain…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast we continue our multipart series on cyber security. 

In today's episode we are going to dive deeper into reconnaissance, which is the first phas…

Cyber Security is not that hard.

Over the next several episodes we are going to be exploring cyber security concepts and tying them to building automation.

My hope is that by the end of this series y…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast, we interview Saheel Chandrani with ABB.

I'm really excited for two reasons.

One, ABB is discussing my favorite topic, workforce! You can have t…

Nick Sanchez is the next generation of BAS technicians. 

The traditional strategy of hiring someone else's employees has failed. This strategy simply cannot produce the amount of talented employees y…

So you have a customer who might be interested in a retrofit, what next? 

One of the most common ways to start the retrofit sales process is to perform a site audit. To be clear, this is not a ASHRAE…

We are entering a retrofit market.

Those of you who have built your entire business around capital projects and construction work need to prepare.

There is a lot of opportunity in the market that wil…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Podcast we are going to explore Measurement and Verification together.

We are going to look at:

• Different types of energy audits and how to do them
• The differe…

In this episode we will be discussing Smart Buildings Academy's plans for 2023 and beyond.

As you all well know we are big into transparency and collaboration.

One of the best ways to develop ideas a…

In this episode, we're going to be talking with my good friend Donny Walker, of Newcomb and Boyd.

Donny, and I met back when I still worked at Johnson Controls was part of their analytics and system …

In this episode we discuss the talent management lifecycle with Lewis Martin of Charlton Morris.  Lewis lays out a step-by-step planning for discovering, hiring, developing, and retaining talent wit…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast, we speak with Glen Spry on the topic of wireless energy management. 

Glen is going to take us on a journey looking at how energy management can…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast, we speak with Drew DePriest. 

Drew has an extensive background in the building automation space and has the unique experience of being a BAS te…

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast Bayron Lopez helps us to unpack the world of IT from a customer's point of view.

So often we are busy thinking "How can I respond to this spec?"…

Are you tired of the same old team meetings?

Scrambling to find a topic and hoping that your team retains what you covered?

In this episode the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast we are wrapping up our …

How does the building envelope effect a buildings performance?

What role does acoustics have on occupant comfort?

What can we learn from the design philosophies of the residential and light commercia…

Do you want to make your building automation team more productive and profitable in 2023? 

In this episode of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast we will continue to lay out strategies that you can i…