Smart Cities Taking Advantage of the $1.6 trillion Opportunity
Michael Lake, President & CEO of Leading Cities and I cover some of the major challenges we face in cities. Smart Cities is a rapidly growing as a market as shown in these reports: “Smart Cities Market Will Grow $3.5 Trillion Worldwide” and 21st Century Cities: Global Smart Cities Primer. We discuss the solutions to the problems in the form of…
Listen to EpisodePrinciples For Deploying City as a Platform
Today, we are speaking with Carl Piva, Managing Director at TMForum.org for the Smart Cities Initiative. and he’s developed the City as a Platform Manifesto. We discuss the ten common principles for driving smart city success. He says that with these business model principles, cities can become regional or global knowledge hubs and innovation centers.…
Listen to EpisodeIntelligent Buildings: The Future of a Less Stressful & More Collaborative Urban Society
Kevin Flanagan, a partner at PLP Architecture speaks with us about the Oakwood Timber Tower feasibility study he did that demonstrates the viability of building a timber tower high rise constructed with cross-laminated timber (CLT) in downtown London. We cover some of the drivers of design innovation, including sustainability, millennial recruitment and retention, and service focus. Where to…
Listen to EpisodeLessons Learned from the Most Sustainable Building in the World
Ron Bakker, founding Partner at PLP Architecture was involved with designing the world’s most sustainable office building known as the Edge and it is located in Amsterdam. We discuss the different elements of the building life cycle, from design to occupancy and operation including 30,000 sensors collecting data on a moment by moment basis. We…
Listen to EpisodeCreate Agility and Efficiency: Open Architecture as a Platform
Kimon Onuma builds architecturally informed environments for the digital and physical world. He is the creator of BIMStorm. We will be talking about what a BIMStorm is and how they pursue the culture of an always growing technological AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operating) industry appreciating the wisdom we have in the minds of our global…
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