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Failure to embrace smart room
technologies can have lasting
consequences
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Are you buying a brand new old building?
Relying on your construction team to recommend the most current smart room
technologies may mean that you’re buying a brand new, but outdated, building.
That “old” building will not only have a negative impact on your competitiveness,
but you may further exacerbate facilities staff shortages by adding duplicate,
unnecessary systems that need management and maintenance. Without the
most updated smart room technologies, you’ll risk:
• Higher lifecycle energy costs for lighting, heating, and cooling as you’ll
implement multiple systems
• Higher maintenance costs, more complicated service contracts, and lack
of coordination and monitoring when systems need service
• Lack of flexibility when adjusting for tenant improvements and requests –
resulting in lack of competitiveness
• Occupant satisfaction and engagement with your space; cluttered systems
can make it too difficult to participate in energy savings
• Reduced occupant productivity when discomfort leads to poor concentration,
illness, and absenteeism… did you know even a 3% reduction in employee
productivity can lead to real, bottom-line costs?
Temperature – too hot, too cold,
or not consistent
Indoor air quality – humidity or
high CO
2
levels
Lighting – poor artificial light
distribution, glare, or lack of
natural light
SOURCES OF DISCOMFORT