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Our team has worked with world leaders

The Smart Building Bootcamp was incredibly valuable to both my ongoing learning journey and my day-to-day role in Workplace Technology. The course content was practical, insightful, and directly applicable to real-world scenarios I encounter regularly. My favourite part was having continued access to the details of each module including quiz outcomes, which I now use as a reference tool for on-the-job decision-making.

Ally Atkinson

Intelligent Workplace Associate Manager, Accenture

Here at Derwent we are already quite clued up on Smart Buildings, however the Smart Building Bootcamp gave our people an opportunity to refresh their sporadic learnings and learn in a coherent and organised fashion. The training course is incredibly detailed and streamlined meaning we didn’t get bogged down with jargon and we found the content relevant and insightful. Other products in the same space tend to be sponsored by a company trying to sell to you and it was refreshing that this course was objective and free from sponsorship narrative.

All new team members at Derwent are encouraged to complete the Smart Building Bootcamp.

Michael Simons

Digital & Innovation Manager, Derwent London

Having now completed the entire course, I have not come across a more complete training and development overview of the Smart Buildings and integrated PropTech ecosystem. It is refreshing to see consideration has been given to the whole life user perspectives from design, construction, management and operation of buildings. So no matter where your interest or expertise is in the landscape, it is clear what technologies can be implemented to provide a safe, user friendly, sustainable, energy & operationally efficient environment.

It is impressive to understand the holistic view of the wide-ranging modules in the course whereby, the interconnectivity of the many different technologies can be managed, monitored and controlled via a centralised Platform ensuring they all work in sync with each other to optimize building performance and provide the optimal user friendly experience for the occupants and visitors alike, now that’s SMART! I thoroughly recommend the course for anyone involved in property at any level.

John Weber

Global Head of Energy & Asset Management, IRE Partners

What we do

Digital educators with proven real-world delivery capability

We’ve done what we’re teaching.

Specific

Our modules are tailored for those who are property developers, facility managers, engineering design consultants, architects, property managers and more.

Innovative

You’ll learn from those who came up with the ideas and have proven that they work. We teach content that is tailored to the context of the built environment.

Technical (but not nerdy)

We’ve balanced the technical content so it’s understandable, repeatable and teachable to others in your team.

We’re here to equip you with the skills to interpret technical jargon and understand what you’re buying.

Wherever you are, whenever you have time.

Our Tracks

We have an extensive syllabus that is tailored to built environment professionals

Market Opportunity

Smart is fundamentally disrupting how businesses are competing and operating. This session will cover the megatrends that are affecting commercial tenants and answer the question, why do we want or even need smart buildings?

Technology Fundamentals

Technology is shaping the built environment, but it’s a complicated and convoluted world. We’ll break down the core building blocks of smart building technology and give you the rundown on how they work.

Building a Business case

The way in which technologies are procured is becoming increasingly varied and difficult to manage. In this session, we will cover licencing, ‘as a service’, hardware and software splits, and the 3:30:300 rule.

Consumer/Human Trends

Technology is shaping the built environment, but it’s a How and which technologies are shifting changing working patterns and our relationship with the built environment? In this session, we will cover how organisations are responding to changes in customer trends and attitudes to smart services.

Smart Facilities Management

Facilities management operations are changing as a result of the data that IoT exposes. We will discuss use cases and analyse what FM companies are doing in the market.

Internet of Things

There is so much innovation in the IoT market right now, but what’s driving it? What makes it so popular? How are people making money from it? We look at some of these trends as well as getting into the nitty-gritty of protocols, security and networks.

System Architecture

Understanding how systems work with each other is important to ensure low operating costs and compatibility. You’ll learn common ways to represent how systems work with others and present some key considerations when selecting technology.

WebTech

This session will introduce a set of technologies and their functions for key industry technologies that may feature in packaged solutions, such as. We’ll also take a look at how common technologies fit together.

Platforms

A platform is a piece of software that ties together a set of source systems and runs the data for analytics. This session will cover the fundamental components of a platform and what they do, as well as introduce the main vendors for enterprise-scale IoT platforms.

Mobile Apps

Mobile apps promise the user first-time-right functionality that should be easier than dealing with a person. In this session, we will cover the process of creating a mobile app, system architecture and the dependencies.

Smart Access

Access control now features more options than a simple access card. You will learn about different technologies and their benefits.

Energy Analytics

In this session, you’ll learn how heating, ventilation and air conditioning analytics software can analyse data created by the building management system (BMS) and drive efficiency within a building. We will also cover how these technologies can improve FM’s ability to manage a building.

Smart Lighting

Smart lighting uses embedded sensors and the associated collected data to improve the operations of a lighting system and building. In addition, it also creates a new type of controls network to add new devices too. We’ll learn how to make the most of smart lighting in your building.

Location Services

There are several ways to deliver a set of location services within a building. This session delves into why you might need location services, and how they work.

Occupier Wellness

Healthy building certifications are growing in popularity. By taking data from the core systems in the building, it is possible to prove the level of health delivered by the building. In this session, you’ll learn how to do just that.

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Knowledge is power. Understanding how smart buildings work will make you and your team stand out from the crowd. It’s the foundation for delivering transformative projects.

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