June 12, 2025 12:00PM—1:00PM
Location: Virtual
Cost: $0.00
Event Contact: Twyla Neely-Streit | Email
Continuing Education: Approved for 1 LU AIA CES Credit; Eligible to self-report to GBCI for 1 CE hr.
Is Your Smart Building Too Smart? Maximizing Impact Through Simplification
Given the mass amounts of data that buildings can collect today, simplicity is key when it comes to leveraging all of that information. Join Illinois Green on June 12 to explore how you can streamline operations, improve building performance and efficiency, and save money through better smart building data collection and management practices.
 
With panelists representing developers, engineers, and building operators, this virtual session will provide a diversity of perspectives and cover a range of processes from building design to long-term operations. Topics will include the right questions to ask when setting goals and planning scope, the factors impacting the true cost of building ownership, and the common pitfalls when project communication becomes fragmented.
 
Learning Objectives
- Articulate smart data goals, decision-making processes, and inter-dependencies among key project stakeholders.
- Explain the strengths and limitations of various data collection means, methods, software, and hardware.
- Identify direct and indirect factors that impact the true costs of Smart Building ownership.
- Describe the importance of stakeholder communication and identify common pitfalls caused by fragmented collaboration.
Speakers:
- Steven Crowe, Smart Building Platform and AI Enablement, Jackson Control
- Frank Soldano, Vice President of Architecture and Planning, Related Midwest
- John Song, PE, Vice President, McGuire Engineers Inc.
- Moderated by Elena Savona, President, ES Consulting