The Nexus Podcast

By James Dice

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Conversations with smart people exploring smart buildings technology, hosted by James Dice. www.nexuslabs.online

Episode Date
🎧 #199: How QuadReal Owns the Network Across 60 Buildings to Centralize Ops and Harden OT
Aug 04, 2026
🎧 #198: Pressure Testing the HVAC Sequence Optimization Playbook with University of California Energy Experts
Jun 09, 2026
🎧 #197: Brendan Robinson on Chasing the Lowest Energy Use Intensity of Any Art Museum in the World
May 12, 2026
🎧 #196: Weber State's Energy Management Program
Apr 28, 2026
🎧 #195: The Evolution of Presentations at Nexus Labs
Apr 14, 2026
🎧 #194: The Condition-Based Maintenance Playbook
Mar 31, 2026
🎧 #193: Kelly Burke of JLL discusses an Enterprise Clients’ FDD Pilot Success
Mar 17, 2026
🎧 #192: Steve Burrell of NAU on the Campus's 10 Year Smart Buildings Transformation
Mar 03, 2026
🎧 #191: Chris Lelle of Lincoln Property Company on the Keys to Successful FDD Deployment in CRE
Feb 17, 2026
🎧 #190: The Mythological Single Pane of Glass with Kate Stelzel
Feb 03, 2026
🎧 #189: OT Device Management with Tom Balme of Lendlease
Dec 19, 2025
🎧 #188: AI Hesitancy in Facility Management with James Coleman of Princeton
Nov 04, 2025
🎧 #187: AI, Energy, and Engagement: Lessons from NexusCon with CBRE’s April Yi
Oct 21, 2025
🎧 #186: What are Technology-Enabled Services and How Will They Change the Industry?
Sep 16, 2025
🎧 #185: NexusCon Ski Package, Session Sneak Peeks, and Lightning Article Review
Sep 02, 2025
🎧 #184: The NexusCon Episode
Aug 19, 2025
🎧 #183: Agentic AI, Understanding Building Data, and Space Utilization Takeaways
Aug 05, 2025
🎧 #182: Smarter Construction, Open Source in BAS, and closing thoughts from NexusCon 2024
Jun 24, 2025
🎧 #181: Nicholas Dumoulin of DREAM Real Estate on Occupancy-Based Ventilation Control
Jun 10, 2025
🎧 #180: A Discussion with Chris Tjiattas of Walmart on Smart Building Gamification and Pilot Projects
May 27, 2025
🎧 #179: A Discussion with Andrew Rodgers on Horizontal Architectures
May 13, 2025
🎧 #178: A chat with the Nation’s Refrigeration Expert, Cross-System Energy Management, and Ontology Hot Takes
Apr 29, 2025
🎧 #177: Case Study: California State Dominguez Hills uses chiller plant optimization software to save money, improve performance
Apr 22, 2025
🎧 #176: FDD Insights, IoT Data Overwhelm, Tariff Optimization, and the Kilroy Matrix
Apr 15, 2025
🎧 #175: Dirty Jobs of Energy Management, Bad Asset Tags, Treating OT like IT, and Occupancy-Based Control
Apr 01, 2025
🎧 #174: BESS RFI, Refrigeration Crisis, OT Cyber Attack Upticks, and Smart Buildings That Aren’t Flashy
Mar 18, 2025
🎧 #173: Decarb Software, CMMS RFI Takeaways, OT Network Wisdom, and AI Overhype
Mar 04, 2025
🎧 #172: Change My Mind: Metering vs. Occupancy Counting
Feb 04, 2025
🎧 #171: The Untapped Market: Simplifying Technology for Simple Buildings
Jan 21, 2025
🎧 #170: Case Study: AFL’s Journey from Unruly Spreadsheets to Auditable Data and Insights
Jan 07, 2025
🎧 #169: Case Study: T-Mobile scales digital metering across data center portfolio
Nov 26, 2024
🎧 #168: The talent gap & what you can do about it
Sep 17, 2024
🎧 #167: Case Study: Leveraging Tech to Operate Lean with Harris Capital
Sep 03, 2024
🎧 #166: Case Study: Using FDD to Catalyze the Digital Transformation of RYCOM’s Facility Management Services
Jul 23, 2024
🎧 #165: Buyer Roundup: Tech trends in logistics, distribution, and industrial facilities
Jul 09, 2024
🎧 #164: Case Study: The Museum of London
Jun 25, 2024
🎧 #163: Higher Ed Roundup: Smart Buildings at Stanford, Boston, and Kansas State
Jun 04, 2024
🎧 #162: Case Study: Peak demand management at scale at Macerich shopping centers
May 21, 2024
🎧 #161: Nexus Labs Update - People Counting, Marketplace, and NexusCon!
Feb 13, 2024
🎧 #160: Case Study: KIPP DC Schools wants autonomy, deploys IDL, FDD, Supervisory control, CMMS
Jan 23, 2024
🎧 #159: Case Study: QuadReal rolls out passive optical networks for OT devices
Dec 07, 2023
🎧 #158: Case Study: Limbach Holdings digitizes HVAC and Controls Service
Nov 23, 2023
🎧 #157: Case Study: Decarbonization on the WattCarbon Marketplace
Nov 09, 2023
🎧 #156: Case Study: Sleep Country deploys AI-enabled thermostats in 200+ stores
Oct 26, 2023
🎧 #155: Case Study: The Empire State Building
Oct 12, 2023
🎧 #154: Case Study: University of California Irvine overhauls BAS, adds FDD
Sep 28, 2023
🎧 #153: Case Study: Unpacking BGO's cybersecurity program
Sep 14, 2023
🎧 #152: In The Field: Stacks+Joules Graduate Nathanseth Cruz
Aug 31, 2023
🎧 #151: What we do @ Nexus Labs
Aug 24, 2023
🎧 #150: Case Study: LONG Building Technologies on FDD
Aug 17, 2023
🎧 #149: Change My Mind: The Independent Data Layer
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #148: Foundations: Intro to Horizontal Architectures
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #147: Deep Dives: Audio/Visual Systems and The Role They Play
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #146: In The Field: Facility Manager Mary Gloven
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #145: Early Stage: Waste Tracking with WATS
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #144: Case Study: How the University of Iowa integrated FDD into maintenance operations
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #143: Updates + AMA: June 2023
Jun 07, 2023
🎧 #142: Living buildings and where technology fits
Mar 16, 2023
🎧 #141: CRE Market Talk #2 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone
Mar 09, 2023
🎧 #140: The value of occupancy data and reducing risks with leak detection
Mar 02, 2023
🎧 #139: Q1 2023 M&A Roundup with J³
Feb 23, 2023
🎧 #138: The one where James gets interviewed
Feb 16, 2023
🎧 #137: Jigar Shah wants to fund your Virtual Power Plant
Feb 09, 2023
🎧 #136: Innovation and case studies of grid-interactive efficient buildings
Feb 02, 2023
🎧 #135: Transforming the market, with regulation and without
Jan 26, 2023
🎧 #134: The building operator's role in decarbonization and digitization
Jan 19, 2023
🎧 #133: How the building automation supply chain works (and when it doesn't)
Jan 12, 2023
🎧 #132: Refrigerants: the Cinderella of the Decarbonization Movement
Jan 05, 2023
🎧 #131: Google's BOS Program & Creating Software-Defined Buildings
Dec 15, 2022
🎧 #130: Allianz's smart buildings program and the importance of the BOS
Dec 08, 2022
🎧 #129: Decarbonizing New York City through Local Law 97
Dec 01, 2022
🎧 #128: James McGinniss on DER technology and the future of electricity consumption (Replay)
Nov 24, 2022
🎧 #127: CRE Market Talk #1 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone
Nov 17, 2022
🎧 #126: Decarbonization from the trenches
Nov 10, 2022
🎧 #125: Sara Neff on the roadmap to absolute zero carbon
Nov 03, 2022
🎧 #124: Tearle Whitson Tells the Inside Story of Microsoft's Smart Buildings Program
Oct 27, 2022
🎧 #123: October 2022 M&A Roundup with J³
Oct 20, 2022
🎧 #122: Matt Ellis on the new business case for decarbonization and why platforms are vital
Oct 13, 2022
🎧 #121: Stacy Smedley on the Road to Zero Carbon Construction and Where Technology Fits
Oct 06, 2022
🎧 #120: Fixing Offsets and Decarbonizing Buildings with McGee Young
Sep 29, 2022
🎧 #119: How service robots fit into the smart building ecosystem
Sep 22, 2022
🎧 #118: Simplifying decarbonization with Aaron Block
Sep 15, 2022
🎧 #117: 4 Steps to Sustainable Indoor Air Quality
Sep 08, 2022
🎧 #116: Integrating "Smart" Into the Construction Process with Charlie Buscarino
Sep 01, 2022
🎧 #115: The role of the smart building consultant with Bruce Duyshart
Aug 25, 2022
🎧 #114: Decarbonized Buildings Require Better Energy Modeling Tools
Aug 18, 2022
🎧 #113: The Data Required for The Third Phase of ESG
Aug 11, 2022
🎧 #112: Demystifying 'Zero Trust'
Aug 04, 2022
🎧 #111: Tenant apps: the why, what, and how with Prasan Kale
Jul 28, 2022
🎧 #110: The evolution of the access control system with Lee Odess
Jul 21, 2022
🎧 #109: Demystifying wireless technology for CRE
Jul 14, 2022
🎧 #108: Mid-2022 M&A Roundup with J³
Jul 07, 2022
🎧 #107: Balancing Embodied and Operational Carbon Emissions
Jun 30, 2022
🎧 #106: A day in the life of a digitized, decarbonized building
Jun 23, 2022
🎧 #105: What the small buildings market has been missing with Tanya Barham
Jun 16, 2022
🎧 #104: New York City's unique RTEM program
Jun 09, 2022
🎧 #103: Nuveen's top technology priorities
Jun 02, 2022
🎧 #102: Unpacking 2022's major themes with Newcomb & Boyd
May 26, 2022
🎧 #101: Virtual Engineering with Hank
May 19, 2022
🎧 #100: Decarbonization, blockchain, and the Building OS with KPMG and Prescriptive Data
May 12, 2022
🎧 #099: Duke University's Decarbonization and Digitization Journey
May 05, 2022
🎧 #098: Louise Monger on Schneider Electric's approach to digital buildings
Apr 28, 2022
🎧 #097: Indoor air quality strategies and standards across 50 million square feet
Apr 21, 2022
🎧 #096: Cory Clarke on why View assembled the full stack
Apr 14, 2022
🎧 #095: Antony Slumbers on what it means to own a smart building
Apr 07, 2022
🎧 #094: The ESG data gap with Ryan Knudson
Mar 31, 2022
🎧 #093: Mesa's simple smart buildings kit
Mar 24, 2022
🎧 #092: AMP Capital's Data-Driven Maintenance Program
Mar 17, 2022
🎧 #091: The power of occupancy data with Rags Gupta
Mar 10, 2022
🎧 #090: The democratization of building controls
Mar 03, 2022
🎧 #089: M&A Roundup with Joe Aamidor
Feb 24, 2022
🎧 #088: From connected commissioning to connected construction
Feb 17, 2022
🎧 #087: Andy Frank on the Independent Data Layer
Feb 10, 2022
🎧 #086: Building Science + Data Science = Zero Carbon Future
Feb 03, 2022
🎧 #085: A carbon reduction plan for every building on the planet with Christopher Naismith
Jan 27, 2022
🎧 #084: Finding the signal in the IAQ noise with Kaiterra and DLR Group
Jan 20, 2022
🎧 #083: QuadReal's quest for a Building OS with KODE Labs
Jan 13, 2022
🎧 #082: Demand flexibility in the Long Tail of small buildings with Extensible Energy
Jan 06, 2022
🎧 #081: Carlos Flores on how NABERS transformed the real estate industry
Dec 16, 2021
🎧 #080: Colleen Morris on unlocking building level energy data
Dec 10, 2021
🎧 #079: Unpacking Stanford University's Smart Buildings Program and Road to Net Zero
Dec 02, 2021
🎧 #078: Stacy Smedley on the road to zero carbon construction and where technology fits
Nov 24, 2021
🎧 #077: Jon McFarlane on an open source building operating system and enabling true automation
Nov 17, 2021
🎧 #076: The evolving role of the Master Systems Integrator (MSI)
Nov 11, 2021
🎧 #075: Anto Budiardjo on Smarter Stacks and solving the integration problem to enable digital twins
Nov 04, 2021
🎧 #074: Andrew Rodgers on what "open" really means
Oct 28, 2021
🎧 #073: Michael Grant on the latest trends in occupancy data, IAQ, APIs, and Overlay Software
Oct 21, 2021
🎧 #072: Kilroy Realty and Intelligent Buildings on cybersecurity and the roadmap to enabling smarter buildings
Oct 14, 2021
🎧 #071: DEI Today in the Smart Buildings Industry
Oct 07, 2021
🎧 #070: Will Cowell de Gruchy on simplifying IoT, core use cases, and founding Infogrid
Sep 30, 2021
🎧 #069: Dana Guernsey on building a grid-interaction platform
Sep 23, 2021
🎧 #068: Ben Myers of BXP on decarbonizing 50 million square feet
Sep 16, 2021
🎧 #067 - Trevor Pering on 3 ways Google is enabling Enterprise IoT
Sep 09, 2021
🎧 #066: Cara Carmichael on Our Roadmap to Zero Carbon Buildings
Sep 02, 2021
🎧 #065: Troy Harvey on the Quantum Digital Twin Standard and enabling fully autonomous buildings
Aug 26, 2021
🎧 #064: James McGinniss on DER technology and the future of electricity consumption
Aug 19, 2021
🎧 #063: Ryan Morris and Marti Ogram on Turntide's Technology for Sustainable Operations
Aug 12, 2021
🎧 #062: Jon Clarke on leading Dexus' smart buildings program
Aug 05, 2021
🎧 #061: Why technology in buildings is decades behind
Jul 29, 2021
🎧 #060: Jacinda Lofland on success with Tenant Engagement apps
Jul 22, 2021
🎧 #059 - Cisco DeVries on gamifying grid flexibility and why fighting climate change depends on it
Jul 15, 2021
🎧 #058: Darlene Pope on the history of smart buildings, the 3-30-300 rule, and where we're headed
Jul 08, 2021
🎧 #057: Mandi Wedin on ESG+R as a driver for smart building technology
Jul 01, 2021
🎧 #056: Sabine Lam unpacks Google's Building Operating System (BOS) program
Jun 24, 2021
🎧 #055: Ruairí Barnwell on designing and commissioning smart buildings and IAQ
Jun 17, 2021
🎧 #054: Ben Birnbaum on why solving climate means solving controls
Jun 10, 2021
🎧 #053: Jim Whalen reflects on the past and future of Boston Properties' digital buildings program
Jun 03, 2021
🎧 #052: Rob Huntington on the shift to Converged Networks, MSIs, and the "sun setting on the BMS"
May 27, 2021
🎧 #051: Rachel Kennedy on digital device discovery (Dx³) and reflections on teaching smart buildings
May 20, 2021
🎧 #050: Shaun Cooley on one API for your building
May 13, 2021
🎧 #049: Rob Brimblecombe on taking Monash University to Net Zer
May 06, 2021
🎧 #048: Andrew Rodgers on the independent data layer and VOLTTRON's market transformation potential
Apr 29, 2021
🎧 #047: Shen Chiu on Investa Property Group's smart buildings program and the IB Index
Apr 22, 2021
🎧 #046: The WiredScore team on what makes a building smart and connected
Apr 15, 2021
🎧 #045: Leon Wurfel on how analytics can scale and founding BUENO
Apr 08, 2021
🎧 #044: John Petze on Tridium's early days, founding SkySpark, and 10 years of Project Haystack
Apr 01, 2021
🎧 #043: Scott Ellison on smart building startups, mistakes to avoid, and why the time for innovation is now
Mar 25, 2021
🎧 #042: Aaron Lapsley on Smart Building Strategy, six factors limiting innovation, and IAQ
Mar 18, 2021
🎧 #041: Anand Mecheri on a toolkit for building Digital Twins
Mar 11, 2021
🎧 #040: Jeremy Macdonald on sustainability, ESG, and where analytics fit
Mar 04, 2021
🎧 #039: Adam Kaufman on the vital role of the analytics super user
Feb 25, 2021
🎧 #038: Rajavel Subramanian on the 3 types of software silos and how the overlay helps
Feb 18, 2021
🎧 #037: Shannon Smith on making analytics a painkiller, not a vitamin
Feb 11, 2021
🎧 #036: Josh Adams on digital twins and partnerships (and why we need both)
Feb 04, 2021
🎧 #035: Matt Golden on capturing the grid benefits of your projects
Jan 28, 2021
🎧 #034: Brian Turner on the Ontology Wars and the role of the MSI
Jan 21, 2021
🎧 #033: Ping Yao on smart building networks and the blurring lines between IT and OT
Jan 14, 2021
🎧 #032: Erik Ubels' insights from The Edge
Jan 07, 2021
🎧 #031: Why technology in buildings is decades behind
Dec 17, 2020
🎧 #030: Microsoft's emerging smart building ecosystem
Dec 10, 2020
🎧 #029: Google's plan for smart buildings at scale
Dec 03, 2020
🎧 #028: Joe Gaspardone on the business case for smart buildings in CRE
Nov 19, 2020
🎧 #027: Joe Gaspardone on how a base building network enables the smart building
Nov 12, 2020
🎧 #026: Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft on building smart from the ground up
Nov 05, 2020
🎧 #024: Mike Brooman on the role of the MSI and Smart Core
Oct 22, 2020
🎧 #023: Unpacking advanced supervisory control with Nexus Pro Members
Oct 15, 2020
🎧 #022: Kyle Tooke on defining the organizational digital twin
Oct 08, 2020
🎧 #020: Andrew Rodgers on what "open" really means for smart buildings
Sep 24, 2020
🎧 #019: Tyson Soutter on how to sell smart building technology
Sep 17, 2020
🎧 #018: Logan Soya on how to engage key stakeholders in the energy efficiency journey
Sep 10, 2020
🎧 #016: Brad Pilgrim on how multifamily buildings can achieve energy Parity
Aug 27, 2020
🎧 #015: Deb Noller on the acceleration of smart building adoption post-COVID
Aug 20, 2020
🎧 #013: Deepinder Singh of 75F on epidemic mode and building the modern BAS
Jul 23, 2020
🎧 #011: Cory Mosiman on the state of Haystack, Brick, and ASHRAE 223
Jul 08, 2020
🎧 #009: Terry Herr of Intellimation on the past, present, and future of building analytics
Jun 10, 2020
🎧 #008: Jean-Simon Venne on using AI to transition from reactive to proactive
Jun 04, 2020
🎧 #007: Thru Shivakumar of Cohesion on what makes a building intelligent
May 28, 2020
🎧 #006: Prabhu Ramachandran of Facilio on a single pane of glass for the portfolio
May 17, 2020
🎧 #005: Troy Harvey of PassiveLogic on next-generation building automation
May 07, 2020
🎧 #004: Alex Grace on digital transformation for building service providers
Apr 30, 2020
🎧 #003: Nick Gayeski of KGS Buildings on FDD at scale and 5 waves of smart building tech
Apr 16, 2020
🎧 #002: Joe Aamidor on getting started with smart buildings, app stores, and open data platforms
Apr 02, 2020
🎧 #001: Nicolas Waern on the three stages of smart building technology
Mar 22, 2020