Season 2, Episode 4: Rust Belts & Blue Collars (w/ Cormac Crossan)

We have a new website: In Act 1, Tyler discusses the transition – both psychological and actual – between the Industrial Age and the Information Age, and what that means for how we see ourselves and how we see our buildings. He remarks that society places a high importance on what are traditionally manufacturing or blue-collar jobs, but that due to the fact we are now in an information/digital age, those jobs and the value they bring are highly digital as well. We should consider these “blue-collar IT”, and as opposed to these blue-collar jobs being finished once a building is completed, they now play an active role in the continued life of a smart building and feed directly into the productivity of a knowledge and services economy. In commercial real estate, where facilities are often used as the offices for “white-collar labor”, this dynamic is most apparent because these developments are now facing greater demands to be “smart” and “well” and leaning on the tech in a building to make that happen. In Act 2, we discuss the commercial real estate sector with Paris-based Cormac Crossan, Business Development Director of Commercial Real Estate for Schneider Electric. Cormac delivers the goods with quotes, facts, statistics and wide-ranging observations about the state of smart buildings in the commercial real estate industry. He remarks that while it’s still largely less tech-adopted than other less obvious industries such as commercial fishing, the investments in “prop tech” technologies across all aspects of a building’s services points to a promising future. He discusses the benefits of seamless engagement between building systems, and how this remains a holy grail of sorts, while describing how simple data points are becoming more and more valuable by helping to make the life of a building occupant simpler (and not just saving on electricity consumption). He speaks of the 3-30-300 principle, benefits of biophilic design, and other simply cool facets of CRE in today’s economy. Outro: “It’s All Okay” by Julia Stone

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Season 2, Episode 4: Rust Belts & Blue Collars (w/ Cormac Crossan) is an episode from Next Story Up by Next Story Up.

This episode is 00:38:24 long.

This episode was published on Oct 1, 2019.

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