Smart Buildings Show Conference Programme 2026

Stop guessing and start optimising. Nova Southeastern University transformed its institutional budget by $100 Million through AI-driven occupancy analytics. By leveraging the Wi-Fi infrastructure they already owned, NSU avoided $70 million in new construction costs and slashed HVAC runtimes by 21%—all without sacrificing comfort. This session will provide a blueprint for facilities leaders to achieve operational excellence, right-size real estate portfolios, and lead the hybrid learning revolution by turning underutilised space into strategic capital.

The UK’s digital backbone depends on networks that do more than connect services, they must continuously protect them. In modern smart building environments, downtime is no longer tolerated, security threats are constant, and complexity is the norm. Reactive operations simply don’t scale.

This session explores how intelligent networks, designed with visibility, control, and operational awareness at their core, are transforming the way critical infrastructure is operated across connected buildings and estates. Rather than responding to incidents after they occur, intelligent network environments enable teams to anticipate risk, maintain stability, and operate with confidence in live, mission-critical conditions.

Trust delivers end-to-end network and infrastructure capability across some of the UK's most demanding environments, combining resilient network architecture, large-scale deployment, embedded engineering teams, and 24/7 operational assurance. This joined-up approach ensures that networks remain secure, observable, and controllable at all times, not just during incidents.

Rather than focusing on individual technologies, this talk demonstrates how networks, platforms, and operations must work together to deliver what modern smart buildings ultimately depend on: security, visibility, control, resilience, and uninterrupted service delivery, working quietly and reliably behind the scenes.

Most building owners know their portfolio could perform better. Far fewer can say, with confidence, which building to start with, which intervention delivers the most value, and what it will be worth.
Producing that answer has traditionally meant an energy audit: expensive, point-in-time, and out of date within months. This panel examines what changes when that analysis runs continuously and automatically across a portfolio.
The discussion covers how AI is used to identify and rank optimisation opportunities, how those findings translate into performance ratings including NABERS UK, and where human judgement remains essential. The panel considers what building owners should expect from automated analysis, and what they should be sceptical of.
Attendees will learn

● What an automated optimisation roadmap contains, and how it differs from a traditional energy audit
● How to prioritise interventions across a portfolio when capital is constrained
● Where automated analysis is reliable, and where engineering judgement is still required
● How continuous analysis supports performance ratings including NABERS UK

See how you can leverage your building network to achieve real business outcomes with IoT and Location Based Services, with HPE AI Networking. Learn how to leverage your existing network to be able to connect with your BMS, analytics or cleaning platforms, therefore saving money and gaining efficiencies across your estate.

Despite significant advances in building technology, many buildings continue to consume more energy than predicted, fail to deliver consistent occupant comfort, and fall short of their intended operational performance. This disparity between design intent and actual operation, commonly known as the performance gap, remains one of the greatest challenges facing the built environment.

What if your building's biggest energy-saving opportunity is already installed, but simply not being fully utilised?

This session will explore why buildings fail to meet expectations and demonstrate how Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) and Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) can help bridge the gap between design intent and real-world performance.
Gain practical insights into how intelligent controls can identify hidden inefficiencies, support ongoing optimisation, and unlock significant energy, carbon and operational savings.

In this session the panel will explore: 
• Why actual building performance often differs from design intent.
• What is the real cost of doing nothing. 
• Is the route to better performance already installed? 
• What practical steps buildings owners can take to close the performance gap.

Chair of panel: Ron Purcell, Vice President BCIA and Product Manager at Siemens
Panellists to be announced soon.

Modern buildings are increasingly equipped with Building Management Systems (BMS), smart technologies, analytics platforms and digital tools. Yet many continue to underperform long after handover, falling short of their energy, carbon, operational and occupant comfort objectives.

This presentation explores the gap between what is designed and installed, and what is ultimately achieved in operation. Drawing on real project experience and building performance reviews, it examines the common issues that prevent buildings from delivering their intended outcomes, including control strategy challenges, scheduling issues, poor data quality, sensor inaccuracies, underutilised analytics and operational practices that drift over time.

The session will demonstrate how Health Checks and performance-focused reviews can uncover hidden inefficiencies, improve building operation and help organisations realise greater value from their existing systems without major capital investment.

Attendees will gain practical insights into:

- Why many smart buildings still underperform after handover.
- Common issues identified through building performance and controls reviews.
- The role of controls, data and operational practices in achieving better outcomes.
- Practical approaches to improving energy performance, occupant comfort and decarbonisation.
- How building owners and operators can unlock more value from existing systems and technologies.

Whether you are a building owner, facilities manager, operator, asset manager, project manager, or building performance professional, this session will provide practical lessons and real-world examples that can be applied to both new and existing buildings.

Excel Exhibition Centre are going through a transformation program, that includes the addition of Phase 3, to increase the size of the Exhibition Centre to complete on a global scale, with global clients.

The upgrades of both the passive and active infrastructure, Wired & Wireless to ensure customers, visitors and staff enjoy the latest technology to support their dynamic events.

This presentation will focus upon the challenges of the current / original infrastructure and the planned road map, aligned with venue use changes with the opening of new areas of the venue.

As Excel are focusing on a move to 10Gbps at the edge to support a range of endpoint devices, current and planned.

As commercial buildings face growing pressure to deliver better energy performance, lower carbon emissions, improved occupant experience and long-term operational resilience, smart controls are becoming central to both new build and retrofit strategies. From landmark developments designed around intelligent infrastructure from day one, to existing assets that need to modernise without the disruption of full refurbishment, advanced building automation technologies are helping owners and operators create more flexible, efficient and future-ready buildings.

The presentation will combine strategic insight with real-world project examples, including a major new build scheme, 40 Leadenhall in London, where intelligent building technologies have been deployed to support energy efficiency, flexibility, occupant wellbeing and future-ready operation. This project demonstrates how intelligent controls can be integrated from the design and construction stages to support sustainability targets, operational flexibility, occupant wellbeing and future adaptability. This project incorporates Distech Controls solutions as part of a sophisticated BMS strategy, supporting ambitious sustainability performance targets including BREEAM Excellent, NABERS 5 Star and WELL Platinum certification ratings. 

While the technical route may differ between a new development and an existing building upgrade, the core principles remain the same; open, interoperable, secure and scalable controls that enable buildings to perform better over time.

Drawing on the shift towards open, interoperable, IP-native and cloud-ready control systems, the session will explore how these technologies can be applied across both new build and retrofit environments. For new developments, this means embedding flexibility, cybersecurity, data visibility and future innovation into the building from the outset. For existing assets, it means modernising legacy infrastructure, improving energy performance and enabling analytics and AI-driven automation without unnecessary disruption.

Delegates will leave with a clearer understanding of how intelligent control strategies can support smarter building outcomes across the full project lifecycle, whether embedded into major new developments from the outset, or applied to existing building upgrades to improve performance, efficiency and long-term asset value.

CONNECTED EDGE 2.0 SYSTEM introduces a modern solution for building automation by utilising the latest hardware and software technologies available at the edge.

Rather than introducing another generation of field controllers, iSMA CONTROLLI redefines how automation infrastructures are designed, extending native Ethernet from enterprise networks directly to intelligent field devices through Single Pair Ethernet (10BASE-T1L). The platform unifies edge control, interoperability, cloud connectivity, and open networking into one continuous IP architecture.

The ecosystem is based on nano EDGE ENGINE and combines ethernet based controllers, with a new line of T1L-based controllers complemented by switches and media converters. It is a new generation of controllers with BACnet/IP, REST APIs and Haystack tagging, enabling field devices to become intelligent digital assets instead of isolated automation endpoints.

EDGE 2.0 SYSTEM provides a practical migration path from legacy fieldbus networks to future-ready Edge-to-Cloud building infrastructures. It unblurs the line between LONworks, RS485, existing IP networks combines it into one EDGE 2.0 system.

The presentation centres around the need to consider the contribution of operational data when considering a building’s asset value. The focus is on the trend for building portfolios to include their capacity for energy efficiency as part of their overall value. We then consider the role of sensing technology to provide the operational data to support this along with the need to promote a shift towards installing sensors as infrastructure. We look at how future-proofing our sensor networks and ingesting as much data as possible into the BEMS from the outset adds flexibility to the system to meet with current and future legislative and environmental goals.

Energy data is the starting point for any meaningful optimisation work. The first question is: where does the data come from? It may be drawn from utility metering, Building Management Systems, or manual meter readings, and the source will vary depending on the building portfolio. Just as importantly, we need to understand the quality and reliability of that data. In my experience, this can be influenced by a range of factors, including the type and age of the meter, its location, and the frequency of readings. Even new buildings can experience metering issues, such as intermittent communication or connectivity problems.

Once the data has been collected and consolidated, it needs to be stored, reviewed, and analysed in a way that supports informed decision-making. Energy data platforms, including those linked to Building Management Systems, can help identify trends, highlight anomalies, and provide insight into how energy is being used across a building or portfolio. However, the technology alone is not enough. As energy managers, we need to be able to interpret the analysis, challenge what the data is telling us, and determine the right corrective or preventative actions. That means considering wider variables such as weather, occupancy, building performance, HVAC systems, controls, mechanical and electrical infrastructure, and maintenance activity. I can bring to life some examples of this.

Having practical knowledge of these variables is what enables us to move from data analysis to real optimisation opportunities. It helps us identify where action is needed, prioritise interventions, and develop a credible plan. Successful delivery depends not only on the quality of the energy data, but also on reliable information about the building services and on delivery partners who can manage and implement optimisation projects effectively.
After implementation, it is essential to capture the results. This supports continuous improvement and helps demonstrate the value of the work to stakeholders. At project level, outcomes should be clearly linked to wider corporate energy and sustainability targets, as well as to portfolio priorities and investment frameworks.

Too often, this is where the energy management story ends. But we should also think about engagement and storytelling as part of the process. By explaining the impact of an optimisation project in a way that is relevant and accessible, we can help building users, the public, and other stakeholders understand the benefits and feel part of the journey. Ultimately, effective energy management is not just about data and systems; it is about helping people understand the role they can play in delivering better outcomes.

Accurate metering is essential, but installing a meter is only the beginning. To create genuinely smart, efficient and better-performing buildings, the right meters must be selected, correctly commissioned, reliably connected and supported by a data collection system that turns information into meaningful action.

In this practical session, Chris Bishop of DMS Metering Solutions and Laura Bishop of HI Group will explore how metering, data collection, controls and building performance can be brought together to create one connected strategy.

The presentation will examine the journey from meter selection through to data collection, monitoring, billing and system optimisation. Chris and Laura will explain the advantages and limitations of technologies including M-Bus, Modbus, wireless M-Bus, pulse systems and LoRaWAN, while demonstrating how the right communication approach can reduce installation costs, improve data reliability and provide greater visibility of building performance.

Using real-world examples, including major healthcare, pharmaceutical and decarbonisation projects, the session will show how outdated or fragmented metering networks can be replaced with more reliable, scalable and intelligent solutions. It will also explore the importance of metering within heat networks and low-carbon projects, helping building owners and operators understand whether their systems are performing as designed, delivering the expected financial returns and achieving genuine reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.

With the introduction of HNTAS placing greater emphasis on heat network performance, monitoring and accountability, this session will provide valuable insight for consultants, designers, contractors, facilities managers, energy managers and building owners looking to prepare for a more data-led future.

Join Chris and Laura to discover how connecting the individual pieces of your metering and energy infrastructure can help close the performance gap, identify inefficiencies and create smarter buildings that perform better in practice, not just on paper.

Eighty per cent of the buildings Europe will occupy in 2050 already exist, and relocating now costs more than renovating. 

This session looks into how smart retrofit can out-return new build, because ageing buildings leak money loudly and improvements are measurable. It covers where retrofit programmes fail and sets out three moves: measure reality, build the digital backbone, iterate and scale.

If you're thinking about moving office, come along and be talked out of it. If you're not, come anyway, and bring your questions.

As smart technology increasingly becomes commonplace in buildings, it’s crucial to ensure all these different systems work together as one cohesive, secure ecosystem before construction. The WSP technology test lab approach provides a controlled environment to check this, reducing risk and helping teams protect timelines and costs.

This session will explore practical ways to reduce risk and improve outcomes across the smart building lifecycle, including how to:
• De-risk delivery by validating systems and integrations early, before issues reach site
• Strengthen cyber resilience by testing solutions against your security requirements before deployment
• Procure with confidence using independently verified performance data rather than relying solely on manufacturer claims
• Protect programme timelines and budgets through pre-validated technologies that reduce commissioning effort and costly rework

As energy costs rise and net-zero targets tighten, optimising building performance has become a critical priority. However, many organisations still rely on reactive approaches and disconnected systems that limit their ability to act effectively.

This session explores how AI-driven energy optimisation is transforming the way buildings are managed — shifting from passive monitoring to continuous, intelligent optimisation. By combining structured data and advanced analytics, organisations can identify inefficiencies, predict issues, and automatically improve performance in real time.

We will also explore how open, intelligent control frameworks are enabling a new generation of smart controllers — creating more adaptive, scalable, and future-ready building systems that support long-term sustainability goals. 

What will you learn from this session?
• How AI can be applied to optimise energy performance in real time
• The limitations of traditional, reactive energy management approaches
• How structured data enables more effective energy optimisation
• The role of open frameworks in next-generation building controls
• How intelligent controllers can adapt, learn, and improve building performance
• Practical strategies to reduce energy consumption, costs, and carbon emissions

Who should attend this session?
• Building owners and operators
• Facilities and estate managers
• Energy and sustainability managers
• Smart building and digital transformation leaders
• Consultants and system integrators
• Anyone responsible for reducing operational costs or achieving net-zero targets

A smart building can understand how it is being used, respond to the needs of its occupiers, and continually improve its performance over time. This roundtable brings together facility managers, fit‑out specialists and wider industry voices to explore how useful that intelligence is, how it is created, how occupiers expectations are shifting, and how the industry can deliver smarter outcomes.

The discussion will also examine the evolution of smart buildings, and the impact of AI in buildings, all while analysing the close collaboration between facility managers, fit‑out and end‑user experience in order to not only support the occupier, but the building itself. 

By uniting these perspectives, this roundtable aims to clarify what truly makes a building ‘smart’, highlighting the future potential of AI and demonstrating how joined‑up thinking from construction to delivery can enhance outcomes for clients.

Smart buildings generate more data than ever before, yet many organisations still struggle to turn that information into meaningful action.

Drawing on Bellrock's experience delivering smart engineering, remote building optimisation, predictive maintenance and Net Zero consultancy, Andre Bothma will explore how data, AI and engineering expertise are reshaping facilities management. The session will discuss how building owners can procure technology more effectively, avoid common implementation pitfalls and focus on creating measurable operational outcomes rather than simply deploying more technology.

As buildings evolve beyond “smart”, this session explores the shift to truly human centric autonomous infrastructure using Industrial AI. Drawing on insights from Siemens’ Autonomous Buildings whitepaper, the discussion will examine how AI driven systems can learn, anticipate and act and how the UK built environment can use these systems to optimise energy use, comfort, safety and performance. Referencing Siemens’ 2025 Infrastructure Transition Monitor and its Human-Centric Autonomous Buildings Whitepaper, the session will highlight why autonomy is emerging as a critical enabler of decarbonisation, resilience and long-term value in the built environment.

The industry now holds a great deal: continuous operational data from sensors, meters and control systems; mature machine readable ways of describing building systems; and a full body of specification and asset information created through design, construction and handover. This session looks at what becomes possible when all of it is held in one connected model that a machine can read. It covers four areas of opportunity: simulation grounded in the real components of a real building; capital planning that can be interrogated and evidenced; requirements that a model can verify itself against, including the ability to test a proposed requirement before it is made; and in use performance reaching the manufacturers who can act on it.

Smart buildings have never generated more data. Energy and sub-metering, BMS and plant performance, occupancy and space utilisation, comfort and environmental conditions, maintenance history and helpdesk activity: most estates now collect far more than any facilities or workplace team could reasonably act on in a working week. AI is meant to close that gap, reading the building, surfacing what matters and telling operators what to do next.

And the pilots often go well. That is part of the problem. A proof of concept lands on one site, with one use case and one enthusiastic team, everyone can see the potential, and then it stops there. A year on, the estate has more dashboards, more vendors and more pilots, but the same decisions are still being made the same way they always were.

This session looks at why that happens, and at what the organisations who get past it do differently.

The harder problem is rarely the model or the sensor. It is the gap between buying smart building capability and giving the people who actually run the building enough confidence to use it, under time pressure, with an occupier on the phone. Facilities, workplace and estates teams are handed new tools and new dashboards without the data foundations, the operating norms or the decision frameworks that would let them trust what those tools tell them. So they verify it manually, or quietly fall back on the way that has always worked. Neither response is irrational. Both of them end adoption.

BEMS project organisations are faced with the growing challenge of an ageing workforce and a shortage of younger, skilled workers entering the field. How can project organisations increase productivity without having to find new skilled employees? and does technology play a role in this?
Participants will learn how modern building technology can help address two of the industry’s biggest challenges: accelerating the energy transition while overcoming the growing shortage of skilled engineering resource. The session will explore how technology can improve both building performance and project delivery efficiency.

Join us for an enlightening presentation on the crucial topic of competence in the building controls industry and the paramount importance of personnel certification through the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS).

In an era where technology and energy efficiency are at the forefront of building management systems, competence has become the linchpin of success. The building controls industry is constantly evolving, and the demand for skilled professionals who can navigate the complexities of modern control systems has never been higher.

In this engaging presentation, Dan will delve into:

• The Role of Competence: Understand why competence is the bedrock upon which the success of building controls projects hinge. Discover how skilled personnel can optimise energy efficiency, enhance system performance, and reduce maintenance costs.
• The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS): Dan will provide a comprehensive overview of the ECS and its significance in ensuring that professionals in the building controls industry meet rigorous standards of competence. Learn how the ECS standards for building controls have recently been updated through the work of the BCIA, and how certification enhances your professional credibility and marketability.
• Benefits for Employers: Discover how ECS-certified employees can be an asset to your organisation, driving project excellence and customer satisfaction. Learn about the positive impact on your business's reputation and bottom line.
• Career Advancement: For individuals, the presentation will shed light on how ECS certification can open doors to exciting career opportunities, higher earning potential, and personal growth.
• The development of an Experienced Worker Assessment: How those who have been working in the industry for a number of years will be able to demonstrate their skills, knowledge and experience in a time and cost-effective manner. 

This presentation promises to be a thought-provoking and informative session that will leave you with a deeper understanding of the building controls industry's dynamics and the undeniable significance of personnel certification through the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in an industry that demands competence and join us as we explore how certification can be your ticket to success.
 

Technology lives in the land of 1s and 0s: on or off, perfect or imperfect. Buildings aren't like that. Walls aren't straight, and every fitout carries a thousand small compromises that add up. Ours has a two-pipe HVAC system dropped into an open space on the basis that it was probably enough BTUs, resulting in five years of unwinnable aircon wars.

The thing that makes AI frustrating for many applications, non-deterministic output, is exactly what makes it good at this. Imperfect buildings don't need certainty, they need compromise, and compromise requires reasoning. Traditional if-statement logic you'll find in a BMS has never been good at that.

I'll walk through what we built: temperature, CO2, presence, solar output and room calendars feeding a model that re-plans every 15 minutes and writes its own rules from the results. What worked, what it cost, and where this approach earns its keep in a real building.

Buildings are often called compliant, but compliant with what? Regulations are just one slice. True operational compliance is whether a building is actually performing as intended. Comfort, efficiency, cyber resilience and design intent. Inspired by Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, this session looks at the gap between assumption and verification. We'll explore how continuous commissioning, digital twins, and governance automation keep compliance alive day to day. Then we'll look ahead, where AI agents monitor drift in real time, explain causes and trigger fixes. So compliance becomes a continuous intelligence function, not a periodic audit. Attendees will leave with a practical view of today and an exciting sense of how AI will reshape assurance tomorrow.

The original promise of BIM went far beyond creating better 3D models. It was intended to improve the quality, cost and efficiency of designing and constructing buildings and infrastructure by enabling everyone involved to collaborate around consistent, trusted information throughout the asset lifecycle.

The greatest opportunity was meant to come after construction. A complete and accurate as-built model would be handed over to the asset and facilities management teams, giving them a rich source of information for operating, maintaining and improving the building.

In practice, this rarely happens. Models are often incomplete, disconnected from operational systems or delivered in formats that facilities teams cannot easily use. As a result, many organisations resurvey their buildings and create entirely new asset information repositories. Meanwhile, thousands of valuable BIM models are sitting unused.

This talk explores how we can finally deliver the BIM Level 3 promise by turning handed-over construction models into operational digital twins. It will explain how information about a building’s geometry, fabric, spaces, mechanical and electrical systems, and the relationships between them can be validated, enriched and connected to live operational data.

Using OptimiseAI’s semantic and AI technologies, Nick Tune will demonstrate how this information can support practical applications such as understanding building performance, identifying energy and water waste, evaluating improvement measures and helping asset managers make better investment decisions.

The construction model should not be the final output of a project. It should become the digital foundation for operating the asset more efficiently throughout its life.

This session will explore the skills, knowledge and mindset that the smart buildings industry—and the next generation of engineers—will need to meet growing demand for more connected, efficient and sustainable buildings. 

Through insights from a range of industry experts, the discussion will consider how roles and skillsets are evolving alongside technologies such as building automation, data analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT, while highlighting the importance of core engineering expertise, interpersonal skills, digital skills, collaboration and continuous learning. The panel will also examine how the sector can work together to attract, develop and support the talent needed to design, deliver and operate the smart buildings of the future.

Planned preventive maintenance schedules are built on assumptions about how equipment behaves. Condition-based maintenance (or Data Driven Maintenance) replaces those assumptions with evidence, servicing equipment when the data says it needs attention rather than when the calendar says so.
Getting there requires analysis that runs continuously across every connected system, identifies genuine faults rather than noise, quantifies each one, and puts a clear instruction in front of the person who can act on it.
This session examines what condition-based maintenance looks like when it works, using real examples from commercial property and retail portfolios. It covers the practical barriers, what site teams actually need from these tools, and why the goal is to remove tedious analysis rather than to remove people.

Explore the transformative power of co-operation - using open-protocol principles to create flexible, sustainable, and human-centric spaces. Tailored for consultants, architects, and future industry leaders, this seminar demonstrates how interoperable technology drives energy efficiency, simplifies future building adaptation, and directly elevates the daily lives of local communities.

This does not mean consigning existing systems to recycling but opens the possibility to work with existing infrastructures to create better, more economically sound, energy efficient and people friendly buildings.

Buildings are becoming increasingly connected, data-rich and automated. BMS, analytics, AI and autonomous controls can now identify faults, optimise performance and make decisions with less human intervention.

But if a building starts making decisions for itself, who is responsible when something goes wrong?

This session explores the opportunities and risks of autonomous building operation, from improved performance and energy efficiency to questions around liability, insurance, warranties and operational responsibility.

Conor will examine what needs to be in place before owners and operators can genuinely trust a building to act for itself, including robust controls, good data, interoperability, cybersecurity, commissioning and clear governance.

The session will also consider where responsibility sits if an automated decision causes equipment damage, poor conditions or operational failure: with the owner, operator, controls contractor, integrator or software provider?

Ultimately, the session asks: if your building could make better decisions than you, would you let it, and who takes responsibility when it gets one wrong?

Today's buildings are shaped by increasingly sophisticated occupier expectations, ambitious landlord visions and a rapidly advancing technology landscape. Yet there is no universal blueprint for a smart building. Every asset has its own story, purpose and audience. The most successful technology solutions are those that support and enhance that narrative rather than define it. While the emergence of data, automation and AI presents extraordinary opportunities, these capabilities can only flourish when they are built upon the right operational, digital and cultural foundations within the property itself.

In this session I will use real life examples of challenges and opportunities and how the engineering and technology solutions will make building narrative a reality.

The session will be delivered with Tridonic and Giacomini as Mymesh Ready Partners.

Together, we will show how intelligent lighting, smart hydronic climate control and wireless IoT can converge through a practical, partner led ecosystem.

This is not a theoretical future vision. It is a simpler, lower risk and more scalable approach to smart building delivery.

For too long, smart buildings have been built around separate systems: lighting, BMS, heating, cooling, sensors, metering and analytics. Each layer is often procured and delivered separately, creating complexity, duplicated infrastructure, fragmented data and integration risk.

This session presents a new paradigm: the convergence of lighting and climate control through occupancy led intelligence.

Lighting is already one of the most distributed infrastructures in a building. Climate control is one of the largest drivers of energy use, comfort and operational performance. By bringing these two worlds together, buildings can move beyond fixed schedules and siloed systems, responding instead to how spaces are actually being used.

Mymesh will show how a secure, robust and scalable wireless IoT platform can act as the digital backbone for this convergence. Occupancy becomes the common signal. Lighting responds to presence and need. Climate responds to actual use, demand and space conditions. Data becomes more valuable because it reflects the live operational reality of the building.

Delegates will learn how the Mymesh Ready approach can reduce complexity for consultants, contractors, OEMs, system integrators and end clients. By embedding intelligence into partner technologies, and avoiding unnecessary reliance on heavy cabling or single vendor lock in, smart building projects can become easier to design, install, commission and scale across estates.

The session will explore how occupancy led lighting and climate control can reduce energy waste, improve comfort, support retrofit and unlock richer operational insight.

This is about moving beyond connected products and towards connected outcomes: secure, scalable, manufacturer agnostic and ready for the next generation of energy efficient smart buildings.

As energy costs rise and sustainability targets become more ambitious, organizations are seeking smarter ways to manage energy consumption across their buildings and facilities. This presentation explores how Infosys Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS), combines AI, digital technologies, and integrated energy management to help enterprises monitor, manage, optimize, and monetize their energy usage. 
The session will demonstrate how organizations can move beyond traditional energy dashboards to achieve measurable outcomes through AI-driven optimization, renewable energy integration, and real-time performance monitoring. Attendees will learn how EaaS provides visibility across campuses, offices, and industrial facilities, enabling reduced energy costs, lower carbon emissions, improved operational efficiency, and verified sustainability outcomes. 
The presentation will also highlight how data, AI, and outcome-based energy management are transforming smart buildings into intelligent, self-optimizing environments that deliver both financial and environmental value.

The entrance to a building is no longer just a door. It is the first moment a resident, visitor or delivery interacts with the building — and in premium residential and mixed-use developments, that moment sets the tone for everything that follows.
This session explores how smart access infrastructure — from IP intercoms and e-locks to cloud management and third-party integrations — is transforming the way buildings are experienced, managed and valued. Drawing on real projects across EMEA including residential, assisted living and hospitality developments, this presentation shows how access technology connects the physical and digital layers of a building into a seamless, scalable system. From smartphone entry and elevator integration to remote access management and visitor flow — all the way to the cloud platform that ties it together.

Delegates will learn:

- How access infrastructure connects to the broader smart building ecosystem
- What developers and property managers are getting wrong when specifying access control
- How smart access directly impacts resident satisfaction, operational costs and asset value
- What a future-proof access specification looks like in 2026 and beyond
- How to brief technology partners and integrators to get the right outcome from day one

Smart buildings today are more connected than ever — yet the day-to-day experience of working in them often feels anything but seamless. Employees book a meeting room in one system, check office attendance in another, receive workplace announcements through a third channel, navigate a separate visitor management process, and rely on yet another tool entirely to request services or report a maintenance issue. Each system may work well on its own, but together they create friction rather than flow.

The uncomfortable truth is that this fragmentation doesn't just frustrate employees — it actively undermines the ROI of the smart building investments organisations have already made. More sensors, more dashboards, more standalone apps rarely solve the problem. In fact, they often make it worse, adding complexity for IT teams to maintain, diluting adoption, and leaving expensive infrastructure underused.

This session argues that the next real challenge for smart buildings isn't more technology — it's connection. Rather than layering on yet another isolated tool, forward-thinking organisations are learning to connect the systems they already have — calendars, room and desk booking, visitor management, workplace services, building screens, intranets, and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams or Google Chat — into a single, seamless entry point for the workplace experience.

AI agents play a pivotal role in making this possible, acting as an orchestration layer that lets employees simply ask, book, find, or solve everyday workplace needs — from reserving a desk to getting a contextual recommendation to reporting a broken light — directly from the tools they already use every day. The building doesn't need to be reinvented. It needs to be made usable.

This session explores a common challenge in building automation: lighting control, climate control, sensors, BMS and FM systems are often designed and delivered as separate layers. Wireless/battery based sensing or siloed solution approaches, can provide a practical route to monitoring occupancy and environmental conditions, but sensing alone does not automatically create smarter control.

Delegates will learn how to think about sensing, controls and automation as one connected strategy: reducing duplication, simplifying installation and commissioning, helping buildings move from static schedules and manual intervention towards more adaptive control.

Smart buildings are often presented through dashboards and data, but the real value comes when that data improves how the building operates.

Between the building you designed and the building you operate, a gap opens. Sensors drift. Setpoints wander. Overrides are applied for good reasons and never removed. Within a few years most commercial buildings are running materially below the intent they were commissioned against, not because anything has broken, but because everything has drifted.

The operational stack built to close that gap has not closed it. BMS analytics, fault detection, smart building operating systems and digital twin were each architected around the same primary job: to describe what the building is doing. Describing is not the job. The job is to judge whether what the building is doing is right, and to say so in terms someone can act on the same day.

This session makes the case for a different category. Not another analytics layer, but a continuous performance audit, defined by five principles: continuous in time, causal in reasoning, conclusion-first in communication, ranked by recoverable value, and verified against baseline. All five, or it is a rebrand of the tools we already have.

The argument is worked through on a single real fault on a real commercial building. One valve, quietly failing. The session traces its impact upstream to the plant driving it and downstream to the zones absorbing it, with cost attributed at every node in the chain, and follows it through to verified closure.

It closes with five questions to put to any building performance platform, and what a good answer to each one sounds like. One of the five concerns architecture rather than capability: where AI sits in the diagnostic chain, and what happens to the conclusion when it is wrong.

The intention is that you leave able to answer the question in the title about your own buildings, on your own evidence.

Join Luke Beardall, Head of Sales at CIOB Academy, as he breaks down the construction sector skills gap, detailing a blueprint for success to help industry thought-leaders close the skills gap and provide standout training for the next generation of construction specialists.