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Restaurants reporter Ally Marotti and host Amy Guth break down Crain's latest list of Chicago's new private dining spaces.Plus: Baxter spinout plants HQ in Deerfield, moving into former Caterpillar office; Mondelez has a lot of work to do if it wants to hit 2025 recycling goal; Sterling Bay seeking buyer for Loop office building as loan deadline looms; and in a legal fight over disputed artwork, judge rules against Art Institute.

The feds are hustling to finalize money for rebooting the Belvidere auto plant before Donald Trump's administration takes control. Crain's manufacturing reporter John Pletz discusses with host Amy Guth.Plus: Walgreens reportedly in talks to sell itself to private equity, Sterling Bay project opposed by Ald. Scott Waguespack rejected by Zoning Committee, Shops at North Bridge lender taking over Mag Mile mall, new report shows Illinois ranks near bottom for wage gains and Michelin stars are out and Chicago has a new entrant.

Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin joins host Amy Guth to talk local housing news, including his takeaways from the latest market data, a proposal to eliminate single-family-only zoning in Evanston and more.Plus: $19 million Ken Griffin condo is just the latest project in JB Pritzker's real estate empire, Chicago's Board of Education presses schools chief to settle teachers contract "in the coming days," private-equity dealmakers expected to hit the ground running in January, Sterling Bay proposes 39-story Fulton Market apartment tower and an Illinois bill aims to limit health insurers' use of AI in denying coverage.

Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin joins host Amy Guth to talk Chicago-area housing news, including how home prices here hit a new record high and details on properties on the market like one designed by a member of the band OneRepublic.Plus: SCOTUS accuses feds of "vague and unfair trap" in ruling with implications for Madigan, Volkswagen invests $5 billion in Rivian to form EV joint venture, Sterling Bay looks to sell another Fulton Market development site and Ken Griffin gives $10 million to Northwestern Medicine.

Illinois abortion providers report seeing an influx of patients since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision two years ago, effectively kick-starting the transformation of abortion law across the country. Crain's health care reporter Katherine Davis discusses with host Amy Guth. Plus: Vote on Sterling Bay project at heart of aldermanic prerogative fight delayed, Thoma Bravo is exploring a sale of Canadian auto marketplace Trader, Jump Trading's crypto chief is stepping down and Northwestern breaks ground on new stadium after rocky path to approval.

Crain's politics reporter Leigh Giangreco talks with host Amy Guth about how the city plans to address the migrant crisis in Chicago. Plus: Northwestern and U of C move up in rankings of startup founders, Sterling Bay plans 29-story Fulton Market apartment building, survey finds arts sector's equity efforts haven't been enough and federal funding kick-starts Red Line extension.

Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin talks with host Amy Guth about news from the local housing market, including how a property from 'The Fugitive' is for sale and news of a rare late summer surge in Chicago home prices. Plus: After a slow liftoff, this crucial O'Hare terminal revamp is years late; Sterling Bay sells property near Lincoln Yards to co-founder's firm; Maui wildfires disaster likely to cost State Farm hundreds of millions; and Laura Ricketts leads group buying Chicago Red Stars.

Crain's reporter Danny Ecker talks with host Amy Guth about developer Sterling Bay's effort to strike a deal with the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund to help bail out its Lincoln Yards megaproject. Plus: Gov. Pritzker makes personal pitch as EV battery makers near decision on Illinois plants, developer pulls plan to turn Baxter HQ into industrial park, the Chicago Sky's new co-owners include Laura Ricketts and Mary Dillon, and Midway is back to pre-pandemic strength, but O'Hare is lagging.

• Jason Meisner from the Chicago Tribune shares the latest from the courtroom in the James T. Weiss trial.  • Crain's Chicago's Danny Ecker has the details on Sterling Bay, the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund and Lincoln Yards.  • The Chicago Fire FC's Evan Whitfield joins the program to discuss upcoming programming.  • Plus, Chef Damarr Brown stops by after winning a James Beard Award earlier this week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

• Jason Meisner from the Chicago Tribune shares the latest from the courtroom in the James T. Weiss trial.  • Crain's Chicago's Danny Ecker has the details on Sterling Bay, the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund and Lincoln Yards.  • The Chicago Fire FC's Evan Whitfield joins the program to discuss upcoming programming.  • Plus, Chef Damarr Brown stops by after winning a James Beard Award earlier this week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we'll explore with Jess Brown from Sterling Bay, how life science real estate is becoming a booming industry. We'll learn about the key aspects of this area of real estate, such as its unique requirements and the benefits that come with it. We'll also hear about entrepreneurs and investors who are taking advantage of the opportunities in this growing sector. Finally, we'll take a look at some of the challenges and risks associated with life science real estate, and what can be done to ensure success in the industry.

In this episode, we'll explore with Jess Brown from Sterling Bay, how life science real estate is becoming a booming industry. We'll learn about the key aspects of this area of real estate, such as its unique requirements and the benefits that come with it. We'll also hear about entrepreneurs and investors who are taking advantage of the opportunities in this growing sector. Finally, we'll take a look at some of the challenges and risks associated with life science real estate, and what can be done to ensure success in the industry.

Matt Menna, Managing Principal of Sterling Bay, joins us to discuss Lincoln Yards; a 53-acre mixed-use community development along the North Branch of the Chicago River! Matt kicks things off by talking about the history of the Lincoln Yards site and the process of acquiring that industrial land. He explains how Sterling Bay has been able to get input from all stakeholders on such a large scale development. Matt tells us how the 606 Trail will be positively impacted by this development and highlights the tremendous benefits that Lincoln Yards will bring to Chicago. He closes with powerful words on why Sterling Bay is bullish on Chicago and will continue development in our great city! If you enjoy today's episode, please leave us a review and share with someone who may also find value in this content! Connect with Mark and Tom: StraightUpChicagoInvestor.com Email the Show: StraightUpChicagoInvestor@gmail.com Guest: Matt Menna, Sterling Bay Link: Devotion (Book Recommendation) Link: Lincoln Yards Info Link: Midwest RE Networking Summit ----------------- Guest Questions 02:55 Housing Provider Tip: Have multiple exit strategies to mitigate risk on your next investment! 04:48 Intro to our guest, Matt Menna! 05:46 Matt gives the history of the Lincoln Yards location! 07:31 Matt explains the process of acquiring and aggregating the parcels! 10:15 How to get all stakeholders on the same page when planning a large scale development? 17:57 How has the community reacted to the planned Lincoln Yards development? 21:12 What is the 606 Trail and why is it relevant to Lincoln Yards? 27:15 Matt explains how it's been working with the City of Chicago! 32:06 How does the Fulton Market development relate to Lincoln Yards? 35:02 Did the pandemic cause any adjustments to be made during the planning of Lincoln Yards? 39:03 What benefits will Lincoln Yards bring to Chicago? 43:05 Why is Matt bullish on Chicago? 48:02 What is Matt's competitive advantage?  48:48 One piece of advice for new investors. 49:50 What do you do for fun? 50:15 Good book, podcast, or self development activity that you would recommend?  50:48 Local Network Recommendation? 51:52 How can the listeners learn more about you and provide value to you? ----------------- Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of Straight Up Chicago Investor 2023.

Sterling Bay CEO Andy Gloor shares his development philosophy, thoughts on the market, and Sterling Bay's approach to redefining the future of the office.

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A 15-story apartment building is in the works for a site near the Lincoln Yards development on Chicago’s north side. Crain’s reports developer Sterling Bay wants to construct a 359-unit building adjacent to Lincoln Yards. It would be at 2031 N. […]

Eren Bali is a technology luminary with an entrepreneurial vision and a passion for human rights, chief among those are access to education and healthcare. It's become his life's mission to tackle disparities in these sectors, inspiring him to build Udemy and Carbon Health.As the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Health, Eren leads the company on its mission to make essential healthcare services more accessible. Leveraging its unique technology platform, Carbon Health provides patients with advanced primary care, designed to meet patients where they are across a variety of access points, including in-person clinics, virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM). With more than 100 clinics across the country and a virtual care platform, Carbon Health is transforming modern healthcare.Prior to Carbon Health, Eren co-founded Udemy, an online learning platform where over 50 million students learn from over 64,000 instructors teaching 1.85 million courses in over 75 different languages. Aside from recently achieving unicorn status with a valuation north of $2 billion, Udemy has received praise for helping to make education more accessible to the world. With his successes in education, Eren brings a new perspective on debunking the complexities of our healthcare system and paving the way for democratizing healthcare and its accessibility.Eren joined MATTER and Dr. Suzet McKinney, DRPH, MPH from Sterling Bay in a discussion about his career, the future of healthcare accessibility and what's on the horizon for Carbon Health.

News Director Nick Gale talks mask mandates with Alderman Ray Lopez, Mallory Vor Broker with the WLS Round Table, and Lauren Cohn talks to Dr. Suzet McKinney, Director for Sterling Bay's Life Sciences Division. Connected to Chicago on WLS-AM 890

Wepa! I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian. ;) UNBOSSED is “Stories of Amazing Women in Chicago”. If you are a new listener to UNBOSSED, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti In this episode: Dr. Suzet M. McKinney is a public health expert, medical executive, thought leader, strategic thinker and nationally recognized expert in emergency preparedness and response. As Principal and Director of Life Sciences for Sterling Bay, Dr.McKinney oversees relationships with the scientific, academic, corporate,tech, and governmental sectors involved in the life sciences ecosystem.She also leads the strategy to expand Sterling Bay's footprint in life sciences nationwide. She is back on UNBOSSED to talk about life sciences in Chicago and Nationwide. Key Highlights/Tools: 16 years difference in life expectancy in people 3 stops from the Blueline away (living within the medical district and outside of the medical district) Life Sciences have a number of economic benefits, including not needing a college degree for employment, therefore using life sciences for the unemployed and underemployed on the West side of Chicago There is a 30 years difference in life expectancy between people living in the southside vs downtown Job opportunities in life science that do not require a GED October 19,2021 Ally at 1229 W Concord Place, Lincoln Yards, Groundbreaking Venture Capital Investment in Life Science topped $20B in a single quarter Memorable Quotes: “When an opportunity presents itself, go for it” - Dr. Suzet McKinney Useful Links and Resources: Dr Suzet Linkedin https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/updates/all/-/asset_publisher/UIMfSLnFfMB6/content/join-state-of-the-region https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/10/19/sterling-bay-breaks-ground-on-lincoln-yards-first-building-a-massive-life-sciences-center/ Join the Conversation Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. Follow UNBOSSED Podcast Anchor: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTz6_FepG04QTs1BjFLBjw/ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eUhfH8E Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e7cWtBv Google Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/enjChPt Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cea4c49e-6c7e-4dab-833e-eb57d204c493 And all others… --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti/support

On the podcast this week, we catch up with Suzet McKinney, Principal & Director of Life Sciences at Sterling Bay. We dig into her amazing journey as a Healthcare expert, discuss her new role in Life Science real estate, and we get her insight on how Life Science real estate impact local communities.

Andy Gloor, CEO of Sterling Bay, the investor and developer of Lincoln Yards, one of the largest mixed-use developments in the nation, oversaw the growth of the firm and its reputation for reimagining the workplace into live-work-play environments. Sterling Bay developments have attracted major tenants such as Google, Sara Lee, and McDonald's. Hear Andy describe his journey, the philosophy of Sterling Bay, and what it takes to be a commercial real estate entrepreneur today. To learn more, visit www.Built.FNF.com.

Sterling Bay, the firm behind Lincoln Yards, will reveal its plans for the North Side development to the public on Tuesday. Reset checks in with a reporter about some of the details that have already emerged, which include 800,000 square feet of buildings and a park.

Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin talks with host Amy Guth about news from the local housing market, including @properties going global with a deal to buy Christie's, West Loop condos on the market now reaching $6 million price point and more. Plus: Metropolitan Planning Council names new CEO, Sterling Bay plans to turn Fulton Market flour mill site into apartment towers and office space, Brookfield Asset Management faces 'imminent default' on a Loop office building and a new analysis shows that Fritz Kaegi's a big improvement over his predecessor.

Wepa! I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian. ;) UNBOSSED is “Stories of Amazing Women in Chicago”. If you are a new listener to UNBOSSED, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti In this episode: Dr. Suzet M. McKinney is a public health expert, medical executive, thought leader, strategic thinker and nationally recognized expert in emergency preparedness and response. As Principal and Director of Life Sciences for Sterling Bay, Dr.McKinney oversees relationships with the scientific, academic, corporate,tech, and governmental sectors involved in the life sciences ecosystem.She also leads the strategy to expand Sterling Bay's footprint in life sciences nationwide. She previously served as CEO and Executive Director of the Illinois Medical District, where she managed a 24/7/365 environment that included 560 acres of medical research facilities, labs, a biotech business incubator, universities, raw land development areas, four hospitals and more than 40 healthcare-related facilities. Within two years of leadership, Dr. McKinney accomplished a financial turnaround of the IMD, successfully retiring more than $40 million in debt. In 2020, Dr. McKinney was appointed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker as Operations Lead for the State of Illinois' Alternate Care Facilities, a network of alternate medical locations designed to decompress the hospital system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to leading the IMD, Dr. McKinney served as the Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response at the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), where she oversaw the emergency preparedness efforts for the Department and coordinated those efforts within the larger spectrum of the City of Chicago's Public Safety activities, in addition to overseeing the Department's Division of Women and Children's Health. She also provided support to the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, lending subject matter expertise in biological terrorism preparedness to the country of Poland. Previously, she served as the Sr. Advisor for Public Health and Preparedness at the Tauri Group, where she provided strategic and analytical consulting services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS), BioWatch Program. Dr McKinney also serves on numerous boards and advisory committees and works in academia. Dr. McKinney holds her Doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, with a focus on preparedness planning, leadership and workforce development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) where she was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow. She received her Master of Public Health degree (Health Care Administration) and certificates in Managed Care and Health Care Administration from Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. Key Highlights/Tools: "Death by organic chemistry" Many women and men struggle with imposter syndrome. Engage in activities that cultivate self-confidence Timing is everything Explore any opportunity that comes your way Mottos to live by: go big or go home and, get shit done --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti/support

Crain's reporters Ally Marotti and Alby Gallun talk with host Amy Guth about the pandemic's impact on changing transportation habits and downtown parking garages, along with how soaring demand and a tight labor market are giving food industry workers increased bargaining power. Plus: Preckwinkle seeks a fourth term, Sterling Bay lands a $125M loan for Lincoln Yards, Exelon lays out spinoff leadership and Lou Malnati's sells to investment firm Meritage.

1. Bird bringing Ebikes back to SD! With e-bikes and San Diego is the first test market   One of the first cities to receive the bikes   Great test market Solid weather Tourism Very little rain Transportation is not great Spread out into pockets like a quilt More than 1k scooters (feels low) To provide a green transportation option Specifically, they are partnershing with SDSU   Obviously wear a helmet when riding in SD    https://www.sandiego.gov/bicycling Along the bottom a link for shared scooter companies   2. SUPER Biotech Update!!    iBio to Grow Talent in S.D.   Welcome to SD iBio (NYSEA: IBIO) operating out of BioLabs now plans on moving to 12,000 square foot lab facility in Sorrento Valley HQ in Bryan Texas   plant-based antibodies   Therapeutics vaccines  An antibody that is produced by plants that have been genetically engineered with animal DNA encoding They can be purified cheaply and in large numbers I couldn't use Plantibody (its trademarked by Biolex)   Some cool stats   130,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in TX ½ million hydroponic plants   Fully automated vertical farming    The new San Diego site will be focused on oncology   Why San Diego?    A place where their employees can enjoy a work-life balance and even raise their family   Though only planning to add 20 people this year   They want to be close to entrepreneurial spirit Access to talent proximity to top research institutions    New Biotech Campus - Harrison Street and Sterling Bay buying 1.4million sq ft in Sorrento Valley   A chicago firm Plan to build massive life science campus Price tag $576M 4 of 5 are leased Qualcomm Tanvex Wacker five existing buildings another 13 acres to build 1.1 million sq ft of new office and lab space   2nd massive life science deal    IQHQ, 1.3 million sq ft downtown UC San Diego,  Scripps Research,  Salk Institute and  Sanford Burnham Prebys  Why here? The location is minutes from:   Torrey Pines is too HOT and biotech is moving down the 56   Developers are betting that biotech is ready to head east (a little) Sea Breeze Properties is building mixed use space in torrey highlands Reworking the office portion of campus into life sciences Development applied to amend permit to allow for lab Room for 2500 people 525k commercial space   3. *IPO Alert* - Cue files to go public   4. Aptera Motors pushes ahead to manufacture its 3-wheel solar powered, electric vehicle     Sorrento Valley company   Super futuristic looking   Or aerodynamic 1 wheel in the back solar on the front and back 2 on the front   This is a very challenging problem   Challenge balance between weight,  sq ft coverage for panels, etc Large incumbent vehicles But range anxiety is an issue    11k pre orders   Looking for 80k-120k sq ft for manufacturing (if only they were biotech) They are trying to manufacture in a unique way   The majority of parts are lightweight   Parts can be built in house Much easier and lighter to ship   Powered just by the sun:   Can get 40 mi from a day in the some With charge Envisioning a vehicle with 250 mi range 5. The future of cloud - is local cloud again? Come learn about edge computing at Cloud Night, October 4 6. Green Summit - 23 & 24th 7. SDSM Oct 1-29   Fundings - Tiled, Giga.io, GoFormz, Measurabl ($50M) Sign off and good bye everyone!

General Votel interviews BENS Chicago member Dr. Suzet McKinney, Principal and Director of Life Sciences for commercial real estate developer Sterling Bay. In this role, McKinney helps create urban campus labs and research environments optimized for quality of life. She shares perspectives from her work as a former public health official and educator who literally wrote the book about emergency response (Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Practical Approach for the Real World.) Votel and McKinney discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic response, decompressing the health care system in Illinois through alternative care facilities, and the intersection of national security and commercial real estate.

On this episode of the State of Innovation, we chat with Dr. James Gillespie, Executive Director of the Prysm Institute—a business accelerator founded by Sterling Bay to provide resources to emerging and established companies specializing in life sciences, healthcare and technology. We discuss the Dr. Gillespie's career arc and interest in life sciences and technology; his leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion; his new role with the Prysm Institute; and much more. 

Goddess and the Baker along with several other tenants filed a class action lawsuit against Sterling Bay Building this week. Allegedly the company illegally blocks tenants from using non-union labor to do work in spaces they lease. Crain's Chicago Business Commercial Real Estate Reporter Danny Ecker breaks down the details with John Howell.

Lawmakers will vote on a measure that would lift the state’s longtime ban on rent control. Crain’s reporter Dennis Rodkin joins host Amy Guth to discuss the possible implications in a recap of this week’s housing news. Plus: Exec at center of Loretto vaccine controversy resigns, Ariel Investments shakes up board and adds West Coast office, tennis great Billie Jean King to be adviser to First Women's Bank and Sterling Bay sued over labor rules at downtown buildings.

Ryan HallerFounding PrincipalRyan has over 15 years of experience in operations, real estate development, and M&A in the senior living field. He has been featured in many national publications, and is a frequent speaker at industry events including NIC, LTC 100, Senior Living 100, and Senior Housing News’ BUILD.Ryan seeks every opportunity to be a trailblazer in the industry, as exemplified by his time at Avamere as Chief Development Officer creating the Ovation brand with the assistance of Ritz Carlton hotels. Ryan has led north of $3.7B in senior living transactions since 2008 at firms including Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG), Newcastle REIT (NYSE: NCT), PDCo, and Orchard Hill Partners.Ryan is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and Executive Board of Directors for the American Senior Housing Association (ASHA). He holds degrees from the University of Nebraska (B.S. in finance), Portland State University (G.C. in Real Estate Development) and Mississippi State University (M.B.A.).Dave MazurekManaging PrincipalDave has over 15 years of real estate development, finance and operations experience across seven property types. Prior to joining WELL, Dave led the senior living platforms for Sterling Bay and Convexity Properties where he developed projects with costs over $620M. Additional experience includes Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), where he was responsible for overseeing all capital investment activities for a portfolio of 95 senior living communities in the US and Canada.Dave is a Vice Chair of the Urban Land Institute Senior Housing Council, a graduate of the University of Illinois with a B.S. degree in finance and played professional baseball following college.Topics Covered:The next generation consumer that was coming even before COVID, and with that, the advent of affinity group senior living.Our COGENT brand will be the first to introduce true coliving created for seniors.What the continuum of care will mean to senior living in 2025 and beyond. Today, it's a cliche term that is often misused in senior living. We hope through our four brands to introduce a new version of the continuum of care through our 11 Dimensions of WELLth.What the post-pandemic consumer and marketplace looks like, separate from #1 above. What we are seeing in the debt and equity market, lessons learned, and what we do and do not discern to be a "fad" or "hot take" as we exit COVID and move onward to the next generation.Ryan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-h-59b713a/Dave's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-mazurek-6778186/detail/contact-info/Website: https://www.sterlingbay.com/

Prudential Insurance Company of America is suing landlord Sterling Bay in U.S. District Court for $10 million for the removal of their name and signs from the two-tower office. Bob Sirott and the morning team then jump into a conversation of exploring various buildings throughout the city that once had such a highly adored and […]

La empresa de entretenimiento Beyond Cinema organiza nuevas salas de cine en el agua a las que se asistirá con la renta de uno de 24 botes, solo o en grupos pequeños de conocidos, en 16 ciudades de Estados Unidos, Chicago entre ellas, durante septiembre y octubre próximos. El “Cine flotante” de la compañía se suma a sus auto-cinemas que lanzó durante los meses de crisis sanitaria por coronavirus, y tiene como antecedente los aqua-cinemas que la misma empresa instaló en las aguas de Sydney, Australia, en diferentes puntos en 2018 y 2019. Las salas de cine drive-in o auto-cinemas están resurgiendo en la pandemia de coronavirus por la posibilidad de ahorrar medidas de sanidad y distanciamiento social, mientras disfrutas de un entretenimiento desde la comodidad de tu auto, pero Beyond Cinema está llevando las películas socialmente distanciadas a otro nivel con sus cines flotantes. Los aqua-cinemas de la compañía australiana de entretenimiento y eventos contarán con 12 a 24 mini botes con capacidad para ocho personas. Los clientes deberán rentar uno de ellos completo, no importa si van solos o con amigos y familiares, para asegurar el distanciamiento social entre botes. La lista de ciudades que disfrutarán de un “Cine flotante” a fin de verano y principios de otoño son: Los Ángeles, Denver San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis, Houston, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Nueva York, Pittsburgh, Austin , Cleveland, Filadelfia, Columbus y Cincinnati. Además de tres ciudades canadienses: Vancouver, Toronto y Calgary. Para obtener acceso a una de las funciones se debe realizar la preinscripción en la página en línea de Beyond Cinema, donde la compañía informa que “las películas están preparadas para ser una mezcla de viejos y nuevos estrenos, pero se anunciarán cuando salgan a la venta las entradas. Habrá palomitas de maíz gratis para todos los asistentes, así como bocadillos y bebidas disponibles para su compra antes de zarpar”. En el caso de Chicago el “Cine flotante” llegará del 9 al 13 de septiembre, aunque Beyond Cinema no ha dicho dónde se ubicará. Los interesados en alquilar un bote para alguna de las funciones deben registrarse con anticipación en la página web de la compañía. En cuanto a los auto-cinemas, Chicago estrenó una nueva sala de cine drive-in en Lincoln Yard, producto de la asociación del desarrollador Sterling Bay con el histórico Teatro Davis de Lincoln Square y la organización Facets. El sitio ofrece funciones de jueves a domingo, a las 8:30 p.m. Los boletos cuestan $ 35 por automóvil, se venden en línea antes de cada exhibición y se revisan a través de la ventana cerrada de cada vehículo al momento de la entrada. El audio de la película se transmite a través de los automóviles, y aún cuando los espectadores permanecen en sus autos se mantienen medidas sanitarias, como uso de cubre-bocas, y de distanciamiento social.

La empresa Aon, el gigante de consultoría y gestión de riesgos, está liderando una asociación de grandes corporaciones de Chicago que tiene el propósito de elaborar estándares seguros para reiniciar la economía después de la pandemia de coronavirus, un modelo que planea expandir a ciudades de todo el mundo, de acuerdo con reportes de prensa. Algunas de las compañías más grandes y conocidas del área que ya integran el proyecto son: McDonald's, United Airlines, Walgreens, Allstate, Hyatt Hotels y Exelon, quienes están desarrollando planes de negocios a medida que se relajan las restricciones de aislamiento en la ciudad. También se encuentran entre los grandes empleadores que participarán: Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, Allstate, Beam Suntory, BMO Harris Bank, CDW, CNA Financial, ComEd, Conagra Brands, Fortune Brands, Jones Lang LaSalle, Mondelez International, Morningstar, Sterling Bay y Zurich North America. La compañía Aon, que tiene su sede en Chicago, publicó que el objetivo de esta asociación es crear las mejores prácticas para que las empresas y las comunidades funcionen en un momento en el que se retorna a la actividad pero no existe la certeza sobre una vacuna, y podrían pasar meses o tal vez años antes de contar con ella. “Esta coalición de algunas de las principales organizaciones mundiales apoyará a los líderes locales a que la economía regrese mejor y más fuerte que antes”, dijo el CEO de Aon, Greg Case, en un comunicado. La compañía planea lanzar coaliciones similares en Nueva York, Londres, Dublín, Toronto y Singapur durante los próximos 30 días. Las principales áreas de enfoque del plan conjunto son las formas en que las empresas trabajan, viajan y se reúnen desde que se implementó en marzo la orden del gobernador Pritzker de quedarse en casa. Las empresas deberán crear nuevos estándares de trabajo tanto en la oficina como desde el hogar y otras políticas. Para reabrir oficinas, los mayores empleadores y propietarios de propiedades de Chicago han hablado de medidas como la instalación de controles de temperatura, horarios de trabajo escalonados, localización de contactos, cubiertas faciales y cierres continuos de servicios de gran altura, como gimnasios y salones. Esta coalición de Chicago ha tenido reuniones virtuales para comparar planes de negocios, en las que Aon propuso que los departamentos de recursos humanos y otros ejecutivos completen encuestas detalladas sobre una variedad de temas. En las conversaciones sobre el pronto regreso se descartan los retornos masivos a los edificios de oficinas en los próximos meses, los cuales nunca se cerraron formalmente pero pocos trabajadores han estado en ellos desde marzo y no hay indicios de un retorno a gran escala. De acuerdo con Aon, las más de 100 preguntas de la encuesta, guiadas por expertos, que incluyen epidemiologos, cubrirán más terreno sobre la forma de restablecer lugares de trabajo, y abordarán cuestiones como trabajar desde casa, políticas de licencia, beneficios de salud, productividad y compromiso. Los resultados se compilarán en los próximos 30 días y el informe se hará público. Después de Chicago se prevé aplicar las encuestas en varias grandes ciudades estadounidenses, y la iniciativa continuará expandiéndose a otros países, según Aon.

The potential cost and a possible recession are terrible news for City Hall and the statehouse, where lawmakers already are struggling to pay the bills. Crain’s political columnist Greg Hinz discusses the economic threat posed by a viral outbreak. Plus: McCormick Place loses a second event to virus concerns, Sterling Bay puts a Lincoln Yards office building up for sale, United waives rebooking fees and Trunk Club stores will be folded into Nordstrom. Find #CrainsDailyGist on Twitter and let's continue the conversation.

A Chicago Tribune investigation out today found the city consultant that was a key player in the approval of public subsidies for the megadevelopment Lincoln Yards was actually hired and paid developer Sterling Bay.

President Trump announced he’ll commute the sentence of disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, calling the prison term "tremendously powerful" and "ridiculous." Crain’s Forum editor Bob Secter, who covered Blago's trial at the time, joins the podcast to share context on the president’s move. Also today: A big Baxter accounting error; Amherst Holdings is buying Front Yard Residential; Chicago developer CA Ventures and WeWork will anchor a new River North building, and a study that was cited in the approval of $1.3 billion for Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards megaproject was written by a consultant hired by Sterling Bay. Find #CrainsDailyGist on Twitter and let's continue the conversation.

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In this episode, co-hosts Andrea Parker and Jim Staros talk with nine teachers who got arrested on Day 9 of the Chicago Teachers Union's recent strike. The CTU 9 were calling on mega developer Sterling Bay to return some of the $1.3 billion in taxpayer money they received to develop Lincoln Yards in order to help CPS settle the contract and end the strike. But instead of speaking to the nine teachers, Sterling Bay had them arrested for trespassing. Andrea and Jim also interview Jeanette Taylor, the new alderwoman in Chicago's 20th ward, about fighting for justice in the streets and in City Hall.

Real estate brokers have a new digital tool for calming nervous sellers, a first look inside the high-end condos going up across from Holy Name Cathedral, and an actual yellow brick road honors the writer of "The Wizard of Oz" on the site of his home—Crain’s residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin is in the studio with news from the local housing market. Plus: Chicago police chief Eddie Johnson announces his retirement, Wells Fargo's CEO taps Bill Daley to help fix the bank's image, McDonald's new CEO buys $500,000 of the company's stock, Byline Bank ends Parkway Bank talks with no deal and Sterling Bay is moving its headquarters to a new Fulton Market building. Use hashtag #CrainsDailyGist on Twitter to continue the conversation about these and other business stories.

There's good news and bad news about residential real estate values here. Crain's Dennis Rodkin runs down the risks in the market, and gives us a look at a new book about Frank Lloyd Wright. Plus: The Museum of Science & Industry is renamed for Ken Griffin, Uber launches a new staffing business in Chicago, Sterling Bay buys property next to Lincoln Yards, and the Chicago Teachers Union's possible strike date has investors squirming. Find #CrainsDailyGist on Twitter and let's continue the conversation.

Driving for a rideshare company like Uber or Lyft may be your ticket to some extra money. But if you owe fines or fees to the city, you may be blocked from doing the job. WBEZ’s Elliot Ramos explains what’s happening, and who’s affected most.Plus activists argue in court that developer Sterling Bay has no right to use public money from TIFs to build their mega-development known as Lincoln Yards. Find out what the judge said yesterday.

In this week's podcast we take a special look at Lincoln Yards, a $5 billion dollar mixed-use project from Sterling Bay, a Chicago-based developer who has been on a tear lately.  Based on Chicago's north side, Lincoln Yards will be part multifamily housing, part retail, part office space and part hotel. Reimagining the former Finkl Steel site into a 54 acre project with over 12 million square feet of mixed-use space, the development includes 5,000 residential units and 400-500 hotel rooms. For more on the project, including the sources for the podcast and a timeline of all Sterling Bay Projects in the pipeline, check out our blog post at BuildCentral.com For a free trial and contact information for Lincoln Yards and other Sterling Bay projects: www.constructionwire.com/Free To contact host Luke O'Brien: lobrien@buildcentral.com As always, if you loved the podcast please share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review.  It really helps us out and allows us to bring more quality content your way.

Real estate giant Sterling Bay could pull off the biggest office sale of the year in one of the city's hottest neighborhoods. Crain's real estate reporter Danny Ecker and podcast host Amy Guth discuss the latest. Plus: Ivanka Trump catches Mayor Lightfoot's ire after a violent weekend, Walgreens is closing 200 stores, Boeing holds workshops with Chinese carriers to bring back the 737 Max, two local stores are among new Sears closures, and Beyond Meat's latest restaurant conquest. Follow @AmyGuth on Twitter and continue the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.

In an interview with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave discuss aldermen's shock and outrage of Mayor Lightfoot's elevation of Ald. Waguespack; the new mayor vs. the "Beale-Burke axis" in a City Council shake-up; former planning dept. Commissioner David Reifman: real estate cheerleader or public servant; how developer Sterling Bay ended up with ownership of the Chicago River's banks; what prompted Friends of the Chicago River to support Lincoln Yards. Length 6.7 minutes.

In an interview with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave discuss aldermen's shock and outrage of Mayor Lightfoot's elevation of Ald. Waguespack; the new mayor vs. the "Beale-Burke axis" in a City Council shake-up; former planning dept. Commissioner David Reifman: real estate cheerleader or public servant; how developer Sterling Bay ended up with ownership of the Chicago River's banks; what prompted Friends of the Chicago River to support Lincoln Yards. Length 28.8 minutes.

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. This week’s news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com MASSIVE CHICAGO DEVELOPMENTS GET US$2-BILLION BOOST On April 10, the Chicago City Council approved approximately US$2 billion in tax increment financing (TIF) for two mixed-use megadevelopments: Sterling Bay’s 14.5-million-sq.-ft. Lincoln Yards on 55 acres of formerly industrial space on the riverfront between Lincoln Park and Bucktown and Related Midwest’s 13-million-sq.-ft. The 78 on 62 acres of vacant land on the Chicago River’s south branch, Curbed Chicago is among news outlets to report. Sterling Bay plans to use up to US$1.3 billion to build new infrastructure, including two new bridges over the river, while Related aims to use US$700 million to relocate rail tracks, build new roads and build a new subway station. The source observes TIF financing “freezes real-estate taxes on the vacant sites at their current levels and reimburses the developers for fronting the costs of infrastructure improvements with the incremental tax revenue generated by the completed projects over the next two decades.” Image credit: Sterling Bay. To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes│Google Play|SoundCloud│Stitcher│TuneIn

Today on Crain's Daily Gist, host Amy Guth talks with business leader and Chicago Blackhawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz about items on the business community's agenda for the city's next mayor. Plus: A Jeanne Gang group is picked for the prized new O'Hare terminal, Crain's endorses Lori Lightfoot in the mayoral race, Chicago chefs are among finalists for James Beard Awards, Loop retail vacancy hits a seven-year high, Sterling Bay plans an Englewood development, and lawmakers want an outside review of 737 Max fixes before flights resume. Follow host Amy Guth on Twitter @AmyGuth, or continue the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.

Today on Crain's Daily Gist, host Amy Guth talks with Crain's Chicago Business senior reporter Steve Daniels about the latest on Illinois' prepaid tuition saga. Plus: A new poll reveals a big lead for mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot, developer Sterling Bay wants to build a 47-story Michigan Avenue tower, Chicago law firm Mayer Brown fires a partner for inappropriate' conduct, Boeing plans to meet with regulators and pilots to detail 737 Max fixes, and a survey shows many Chicago parents lack paid leave to care for sick children—and that can impact kids' overall health. Follow host Amy Guth on Twitter @AmyGuth, or join the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.

Today on Crain’s Daily Gist: Host Amy Guth talks with Crain’s Chicago Business tech reporter John Pletz about breaking news out of Argonne National Laboratory. Plus: Winning City Council approval may turn out to be the easy part for Sterling Bay’s massive Lincoln Yards development project, Chicago’s Cresco Labs buys a Florida marijuana company in a $120 million deal, a look at how Airbnb has fared in Chicago since a 2017 city ordinance around short term rentals, a court fight costs census printer R.R. Donnelley precious time ahead of the April 1, 2020 deadline and a look at new survey data around employer and worker opioid use. Join the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.

Today on Crain’s Daily Gist, a look at the AON merger that ended soon after it began, a study about a disparity in how male and female scientists are funded by the NIH, as well as Sterling Bay setting up what could be one of the most expensive hotel sales ever in Chicago. And a look at questions raised by Kraft Heinz around standard and non-standard accounting metrics. Also the Forbes billionaire list is out-- and it includes a handful of Chicagoans. After that, host Amy Guth talks with Crain’s Chicago Business editor Ann Dwyer about a recent piece from the Crain’s editorial board about the Chicago mayoral runoff.

How will Artificial Intelligence Change the Smart Buildings Industry? Dollar Driven Decision-Makers want Data into Insights, Insights into Action, and Action into Revenue. Will AI Deliver? CTN 305 Interviews: Show Notes Eric Stromquist: 00:00:00 Hi. Welcome to Control Talk Now, you’re Smart. Buildings video cast and podcast for the weekend in March 3rd., 2019 . We give you all the Smart Building and HVAC Controls News of the Week. and That’s right. Folks marches here. Episode 305 I am Eric Stromquist. , I am joined as usual by your co host and mine The Man, The Myth, the legend the one, the only Kenny Smyers the control man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kenny. you’ve been out sunbathing today, right? Ken Smyers: 00:00:26 No, I have not been sounds good. We got another two to four inches of snow again last night. And, February beat us up pretty bad, but we’re looking forward to the break in the weather. Eric Stromquist: 00:00:52 well, listen dude, we don’t have time to talk about that. We don’t have time to talk about much of anything. You know why we got two fabulous guests lined up. So, let’s get right to that. But before we do check out the post on controlled trends this week a big one, our friend Aaron Gorka, another next generation innovation podcasts dropped on Friday,, so be sure to check that out. Alot of good stuff on the on that which we’ll come to. Well you just have to go to the site to read it at controltrends.com Kenny with that, let’s introduce our first guest Ken Smyers: 00:01:27 Our next guest is the one and only Ken Sinclair, owner editor of automated buildings. And this month we’ve got something really interesting because I think Ken is going to help us differentiate between artificial intelligence and automated intelligence. Welcome to the show. Ken Sinclair. Ken Sinclair: 00:01:45 Welcome Ken! Thank you very much. ControllTrends. Always a pleasure to be here I appreciate it. Eric Stromquist: 00:01:51 I guess we should just start with you have to be intelligent before any of that’s relevant. Ken Sinclair: 00:01:59 Actually. Actually you’re quite right on, I’m one of the tweets. They actually picked that up and uh, they just pointed out that the, the, the intelligent part is us. We keep forgetting that we, I think we tried to imitate the artificial piece of artificial intelligence rather than the intelligent part. Uh, and it’s hard. It’s harder to be the intelligence. Ken Smyers: 00:02:20 No, I guess just going to say Ken, you know, it’s another great addition. Uh, just, uh, keep a common and is an amazing benefit to our industry that you’re, you’re able to grab all this new stuff coming out and start to make sense of it because when I read, whereas reading some of your, your, uh, entry, sir, in your first, uh, your editorial, when will we ever see a artificial or automated intelligence come into being? I mean, we close. I mean like when you didn’t have, are like, say Scown foundry and I had mentioned, you know, you know, you got, uh, somebody collecting information data. So we wrote a program, so you’re autonomize or automate the collection data, sends it somewhere Ken Smyers: 00:03:00 where it’s being processed by another basically program. So we took the humans out of the elements is going from, you know, machine information, but that back to computer machine information and it completes it. In your opinion, artificial intelligence or what does that sort of striving for is that we maybe try and redefine that a little better once it’s done and once it works and once it’s successful, I believe what it is is automated intelligence, right? And what we’ve done is we’ve learned how, and we probably did that through augmented intelligence and we may have used a artificial intelligence from computers to create that. But in the final analysis, it’s when it’s done, it’s actually a couple of lines of code in this machine and a couple of lines of code and that machine pushing information back and forth. So really all we’ve done is does that look any different than the DDC? Ken Sinclair: 00:03:59 Looper you know, it’s just, it’s just artificial or pardon me, automated intelligence. I keep getting my words mixed up here. The other thing is, uh, took a look at Wikipedia unwell. They define artificial intelligence and it’s totally clear that they’re confused as well. One of their, one of their best definitions is that they like is that artificial intelligence is what hasn’t been done. And I kind of liked that definition too, is every once in a while we hear somebody thinking about something that’s never been done and they actually believe that they can do it. And uh, once they do it, I think it changes. I think it is no longer artificial. I think it’s either automated and it’s either augmented, uh, it’s uh, you Eric Stromquist: 00:04:49 Ken, you’re going to go down in the history books for this cause Descartes said, I think therefore I am. And now I think you’ve just rephrase that to I think therefore I am artificial. Ken Sinclair: 00:05:00 Well actually there’s a good one. Whoever, whoever chose the acronym for for this, this broad method of having machines out think us and they called it artificial, you know, and it’s like wow, artificial has never been a positive word. I don’t think. I don’t think it’s a, it’s an adjective that we, you know, you look real artificial. I think it’s optimistic thinking on our part. But you’ve told us a story right before we turned the recorder on about the, the two machines and the camera. Will you tell our audience that story? Cause I think that is very interesting now. Okay. What kind of goes along like this is a, as we start to automate intelligence, we, we have two machines. The first machine, uh, is, uh, is uh, a ring. Somebody’s doorbell and it, it sees the person walking up and re prerecorded it. And when they push the button and it sends that prerecording to another machine than the other machine determines whether it’s going to allow that person in. Ken Sinclair: 00:06:02 And there’s all this data going back and forth. But when the artificial intelligence machines, uh, they start to, so the decisions are no longer made by people. The two machines, they get together and they say, these people are so dumb. Why did they bother generating a picture and sending the file when in fact, all we really need is the data. Because we don’t look at, we don’t know what a picture looks like, getting way, we just know what the data looks like. So we see that face. There’s a Pi data pattern. When we see that data pattern, that’s what we let the person in. So all of a sudden this gets really scary because they can do stuff faster, quicker and better than us. Uh, so that’s sort of getting into what I think artificial intelligence is, is when the machines start mocking us. What’s, I think they may be doing a bit now. Eric Stromquist: 00:06:51 Well, but Ken, I mean this is what Ilan Musk and some others have really gotten up in arms about and concerned about and I, and he’s a hell of a lot smarter than I am, but okay, so let’s take that same conversation between the two machines and instead of, they’re so dumb. They got it. You know, why do we don’t need a picture too? They’re so dumb. Why do we need them? So let’s just, we got him in the building over there was talk to our friend, the building automation system and building x, and we’ll tell building automation says to lock all the doors and turn the heat on and override the bypass on the boiler. So blows up. That’s one where we could get rid of, right? I mean, this is Ken Smyers: 00:07:25 Guys, you know, there’s several, there’s several books on this and I’ll tell you what, I’m reading one right now and it’s by a Daniel Sora as it is exactly that. It’s the Damon. So the guy passes away and as he leaves behind a, a giant Damon that runs and competes against the top minds in the world where it’s based on a game. So your concept, can I, I’m digging it and here’s why. I looked up their artificial intelligence and it basically just as anything that’s not human. So you have human intelligence that’s, that’s an eight to us that’s coming out of great minds like yours and Eric’s and, and some of mine. But the, Eric Stromquist: 00:08:01 these are such thing as a dumb ass machine, right? Ken Smyers: 00:08:05 When anything is not human is considered to be non human or artificial. So, but I think what we’re seeing, um, and, and again, I think we move into it because of exactly what you just said there. The data going on so fast with the recognition a week, last week, our big thrust, uh, on controlled trans was we did a shot, a recognition. So you had to ballistic sensors and things that could move so much faster. It makes so quick notifications. They can, human errors couldn’t differentiate between shot a gun or I’m sorry, a bullet being fired versus a backfire from a vehicle where the odd, the sensor could distinguish it immediately threw the ballistics through the, um, the sound acoustics and, and the, um, the flash she gives and notify something in three seconds, which takes a human that they’re not sure what they heard. They don’t know what to do, they’re stymied or whatever. Ken Smyers: 00:08:56 So that disbenefit, uh, is, is exactly, I think too, it’s, it’s an artificially gained intelligence where we did, we don’t have the capabilities in Nate Dar, so I’ll, we, we turn it over to our, our algorithms that are powered by Ip conductivities and Zip. We, did we get the benefit of this artificially, uh, you know, provided intelligence that is, or isn’t the bad guy or is, or is it the good guy? Whatever. So anyhow, great, great, great subject. Eric Stromquist: 00:09:26 No, no, no but, but, but I just want to get one step further. Kenny and Kevin Hart had a chance to listen to last week’s episode, but you know, Roger, even I can Honeywell come up with this sort of, you know, using those centers and then incorporating them so that if something does happen, you know, the first responders know exactly where, where to go and it can save a lot of lives. But Kenny, you know, the next step of this is they’re not going to send first responders. You can just send a drone in there. A drone is going to go into school and track those guys down or are bad people down just like that. So again, it’s very ironic that a one level we get very, very much, much safer and everything has a lot more convenient. But on another level, we’re really open ourselves up to some huge vulnerabilities here. Eric Stromquist: 00:10:11 If Elon Musk and some of these other folks are right, it’s okay. I’m not worried about gas cause I’m already, you know, Elon Musk has got this deal. He’s already started this company where they got the chips for the brains. And I’ve already, I’m on the, I’m on the waiting list for that and if it gets too bad with the machines, I got a ticket tomorrow so I’ll be out of here. But maybe I’ll go back and spinning off of Ken’s comment is that his definition of artificial is anything that doesn’t involve us. And I think, uh, I’m not sure about you, but I’m not sure I want to talk about anything that doesn’t involve us. So that’s what happened back to automated intelligence and action camp. But the other component has to be the self learning aspect of it too, right? I mean that has to filter in whether it’s automated or harder official that he can begin to learn right. With the cell phone in Algorithms. That’s gotta be a piece of it. Ken Sinclair: 00:11:02 Thanks Ken. But I’m not sure that, I don’t see that as a, that’s again, as an automated intelligence is basically, it’s just learning, learning how to better automate cause another perception, the way you look at that. Anyway, it’s early days. Um, the, uh, I don’t know if you caught the end of one of my articles there and then I talked about awful made it buildings and uh, uh, we were, we went through eight, we went through a period, it’s actually a 2002 article that I included a linking to. And uh, what happened with, uh, this was as we hit the web. So we went through the DDS, we went through awful, made it building several times. We went through awful, made it buildings. In the early days of DDC we had all these DDC systems that didn’t really work, but there so exciting that we kept on pursuing the, we actually figured out how to make those things work. And then we hit the web and we started getting a whole bunch of stuff as a web controlling MREs, the DDC controller. We have those. And I don’t see this as any different. We’re exactly in the same spot, except we’ve got this intelligence automation that’s Kinda falling from the sky on us. And, uh, we’re, we’re into another period of awful made it buildings until we get this straightened out. Eric Stromquist: 00:12:21 Hmm. What do you see some of the possible headwinds? I mean in terms of the problems, when you say awful, awful, made it, I mean obviously we went from pneumatics to DDC, there was a learning curve and things sorta had to, to get worked out. Do you see anything different with on the automated Ken Sinclair: 00:12:38 controls now it’s going to go faster if there’s going to be more people involved in it because of the iot industry. And ultimately I think, I think, but the problem is, is the uh, uh, Ben Ben, back to what Ken said, is it artificial is defined as things that don’t involve us. And I think if somebody, if we turn loose a machine, it’s not going to run the building the way we want, whether it, whether it attacks us or, uh, even if it doesn’t attack this as even tries to run it to the best of it’s knowledge, it’s going to need some guidance and what we need to learn. So what I see the, uh, intelligent automation phase era, that’s the year I think we’re in right now is we need to learn more about what we can do with this technology. How much should we can machine learn, uh, because we got to learn how to walk before we can allow AI to run our buildings. Ken Smyers: 00:13:42 Well, I, I agree with you and again, it’s always fun to take things to a, you know, an immediate, uh, you know, the word, the farthest point from, from reality, you know, or likelihood. But, um, in the, um, in your march edition, you also, we have another, a great article and great background to some really heady thought, but actually it gives us the, the nuts and bolts of it from a sit. How young thing again and, and, and how, you know, she takes the example of autonomous vehicle and how it would, it does, it reduces the risk of life. It reduces, you know, allows, it frees humans to do more things. Uh, you know, that the car can do that. It alleviates you from doing work. It’s, you know, it’s like a, the amazing thing the locomotive did versus the horse and buggy thing. So she has a great article in there. Um, what, what, what did she bring to you as far as the, you know, her insight using the autonomous vehicle? A analogy to our buildings. I mean, it’s a great article, but I thought, you know, what was your synopsis of that? Ken Sinclair: 00:14:42 I summarize, summarized it in a, in a tweet this morning and the fact that we were pushing back and forth some stuff and it, uh, I said that, uh, you know, the having your driverless vehicles running into our buildings I think is really good stuff because this whole atonomous side of the automated vehicle has whole bunch of social issues. It has a whole bunch of quick control things you were talking about. There’s no way that you know, that some of this stuff can be controlled so quick, but, and that’s of course, the second part of our theme that we were talking a theme is the automated intelligence with autonomous interactions. I don’t know that we’ve really thought of of it in two pieces like that. Here’s the intelligence of what it is we’re going to do. And then as soon as we do it, there’s a reaction, let’s put in another control loop to control the reaction. Ken Sinclair: 00:15:38 And I think if we look at the auto industry, they’ve got their spending scabs of bucks on this and they’re moving through. So I think we need to kind of try and understand better what they’re doing. Ironically enough for articles this month or right on our nose talking about, uh, what they’re doing in Stanford there. And, uh, the young girl on energy prediction is amazing. It picks up on last month and fills right in and she’s particularly well spoken and she’s speaks to it. I think what we also have to, you know, get used to, as people are going to call it artificial intelligence or call it augmented intelligence or automated intelligence and, uh, we’re going to be getting used to the fact that maybe it’s just best we call it AI and then substitute our own, uh, uh, okay. Okay. Different definition of that connotative definition. Yeah, that’s, that’s, yeah, I think you’re right. Yeah. Well, okay. Got It. Cool. Eric Stromquist: 00:16:41 Let me hop in real quick, if you don’t mind, Kenny, before we get to the next article, I think one of your buddies is responsible for all these annoying phone calls I’m getting from these chat bots. Oh those damn things are talkative as hell. But uh, but speak a bit if you would, because it seems like we might be going from a Gui graphical user interface, you s C U I, which you’ve been talking about for a while. But now I see it in black and white and I connecting the dots are going inadvertently can you’re responsible for all these damn calls. I’m getting Ken Sinclair: 00:17:19 no doubt, no doubt. My only defense is as they all, they all sit that they all come with an autonomous interaction. And the autonomous interaction is as if you don’t ever answer the phone or say hello. They won’t, they don’t do anything. So if you actually can out think them. So if you, uh, when it comes, you get one of these chat bot calls. If you don’t say anything and nobody says anything for about a half minute or something, you can just hang up cause it’s no person. So anyway, uh, the, yeah, the, you see, what do we call it? User interface, text voice. The more, so we’re seeing this, I mean it’s running rampant now with the speakers and all kinds of devices that actually have, uh, these, Ken Sinclair: 00:18:08 the Hay googles and the Alexa’s built right into them. And I think we’re going to see more and more of that. And now what I think the, the, the conversational user interfaces is that now devices, we’ll start talking like that and we can start using whatsapp, WeChat, uh, ims soldier and in some of these things. And actually, uh, the very quick segue is that we could actually, uh, you know, text to turn the lights on. The big advantage of that is it keeps a record of all of the commands you can, you can, you can say to your wife, you turned the heat up. And she said, no, she didn’t. And she says, it shows that Santa Time you put it up five degrees. So how that conversation goes, that damn machine is obviously wrong. Ken, you’re not going to win that argument or call my lawyer. Actually, I was going to bring that up. I was going to bring that up early when, when Ken was talking about how, how carefree these machines, good thinking. I think that was the biggest single thing is that the machines can move without lawyers. So that’s the thing that mobilizes us all. Well there then, you know what, there might be a silver lining after all I’m ever my friend. Eric Stromquist: 00:19:27 Ken do you have any more question for Ken? Ken Smyers: 00:19:30 No, no, no. I just, again, that does so much to talk about every time we were bringing something up. So again, it’s a collection of jewels I think, you know, because uh, you know, going over the march articles and how they come together, like you say, it’s like a phenomenon. You started at subject and all of a sudden something provides, you know, it’s like willing it into being like you get this critical mass and all of a sudden people were also thinking that way and just that part from Sydney. Uh, the article from us sit on a jump. The, that contributions inside that article or immense because it talks about, you know, the, you know, the energy, the automatic provisioning of, of, of, you know, in other words, if we had a limited amount of energy on the grid and we had sustained the most important critical buildings and whatever, uh, you know, we’re going to one day rely on that to be done, you know, through uh, I just watched a presentation on, on a new drive coming from Siemens and this drive is already smart grid ready. Ken Smyers: 00:20:29 In other words, it’s ready to go to the next level, uh, and not go into the network would go right to the cloud and put VFDs on, on an application, uh, and it can alleviate a btu meters because the, the VFD can calculate the flow and see how many BTUs you’re using saving of Dagon. Holy Moly. This is, this is another thing that you were talking about right before we have our session here. I listened to this and I’m thinking this is getting really, really interesting because if you could put this artificial intelligence or augmented intelligence or automated intelligence to work, we are going to become a greener planet quicker. We’re going to be able to use this to make our take the best steps forward. But you know, I think would you said true that if somebody doesn’t answer the phone, guess what? Nothing happens. No, no artificial or augmented intelligence occurs because people don’t start using this technology in buildings. We’re not getting anything done. Eric Stromquist: 00:21:31 Well yeah, but you’re saying it’s reactive now, meaning you have to initiate this step, but Ken Smyers: 00:21:36 pretty easy. Did you have to make this step, you have to take the investment, you have to invest, you have to invest in technology, Eric Stromquist: 00:21:40 right? No, you have to invest in technologies. But would your, your point, which is a very valid one. We like your, Ken’s point about the following. If you just don’t say anything, right, it doesn’t, it doesn’t activate, you know, the program. Yeah. But, and I think that’s kind of a very calm, you know, good thought. But then eventually it will be where they’ll just be proactive. They’ll figure it out, west cans and clear again. I’m just going to start damn talking cause I know he’s not going to answer first and then, uh, then we’ll start sending pictures or something to you. That’d be crazy. But Ken Sinclair: 00:22:13 I think this might be the, the edge of the automated automated buildings and automated interfaces and stuff that we need to work out. And I think that’s why we have to be involved in this too, as I, yeah, I’m not sure that artificial intelligence is going to be able to figure that out and come up with any better solution. Uh, what it would say is it’s a solution we don’t want to hear is don’t ever talk to a human. They’re just, they’re just impossible. Only talk to machines. You know? It’s funny you say that because, Eric Stromquist: 00:22:45 you know, I was thinking while you were talking about what’s the definition of artificial intelligence, you know, Kenny had a good one. You had a good one. And I was going to say that, well, uh, you’d have to have an original thought to not be artificial intelligence, but then I think about it, I’m not sure. Most humans have many original thoughts either. You know, there’s some of us who do, but it’s a, it really is fascinating. And then what I’m really interested, forget the buildings. I am serious about this, putting the brain, the chip and the brain. I mean, have an augmented intelligence on board connected to your mind. And Musk has been working on that. So it’s literally, you know, you’re not gonna have to go to school and, and what are you just going to buy the, uh, the chip for American history and you’ll know everything you need to know about it? Ken Sinclair: 00:23:30 Actually, uh, I think, uh, as, I was really pleased with Theresa’s article this month, and, uh, I think it came partly from her going up and spending some time with the folks at bedrock and in Detroit and watching what they’re doing up there. She, she came out and she’s picked up on this theme and she calls it the community of practice in building automation. Uh, you can actually even drop the building automation because it’s basically, I hadn’t seen it so clearly as she depicts it, that we all belong to a community of practice and both of your supply companies are, they are communities of practice and basically that’s what you’re selling. Then that’s your, you’re really your value and automated buildings is a community of practice. People who actually believe in somewhat a common belief of, you know, of how we might automate buildings. We also have things like backnet, which is a community of practice. Ken Sinclair: 00:24:27 We have Niagra and basically what’s happening is they’re becoming the building blocks of our industry. And this is how we build stuff is uh, when you find a community of practice that you haven’t, haven’t been exposed to, you guys are all excited and then you figure out how can we make that community of practice part of our community of practice and that increases your value. That’s a lot of what I, I think we all do is, is basically share this information. The advantage of attaching yourself to a community of practice is it comes complete with resources. People, people who understand that and we need to keep creating those and, and basically distributing that information. So anyway, I think that’s going to be our next direction. That’ll not, that won’t be the theme for, um, April because the theme for April is going to be cybersecurity. Speaker 4: 00:25:25 But halfway through it I’m going to write an article on the community of practice and just kind of tie all of these communities together. And if you just let your mind role and think how important, how important are all those things to your business, your everyday business. I mean, you could say you could, you could almost go down your drawers there, your La Aisles, and you say this belongs in the back net. This is a Nagra. This is a Johnson. This is a, you know, all of them are communities of practice that you’re doing it. What’s your big claim to fame? One of your big claims to fame is that you crossover many lines of a communities of practice. Ken Smyers: 00:26:04 Hmm. Not sure when I read that I had this word Papa, they kept coming up with that was, or your collaboratorium. In other words, you know, the, the thing that I think I’ve witnessed or we’ve all witnessed, but in particular is how quickly certain things get done when there’s that collaboration or does community of practice where you overlay all these experts and all this, all these, you know, leading, uh, you know, uh, pioneers because we’re talking about three things right there that we’re are all articles, project haystack, biennial, haystack connects conferences coming up from San Diego, mid May, uh, Co controls con con a skull, Scott Cochran. He’s got a great spring Ken Smyers: 00:26:44 conference coming up where the, uh, you know, Cochran is going to share a great deal of information, um, you know, regarding new technologies and things that the, uh, you know, it’s very important. So yeah, I did that community practice. It makes total sense what you’re saying would tree says, but um, can you see it? I’ve shared it that she went back to this Nydia and got approval to reproduce this graphic. But if you Kinda, if you kind of just read all the little, uh, you know, things that are written around there, that’s what you do every day, right? Listening, challenging buildings, sharing everything that’s on that thing is basically what your companies do to pull together your community, give and get support. Yup. Yup. So, uh, you know, just it’s, it’s kind of, I dunno, we used to, you know how you have to filter because there’s so much out there. Uh, the malty general generational engagement. So there’s our young guns. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s kind of amazing that, that this is kind of a map of who we are and where we came from. Um, and I think we need to work more on this map so we can better understand what I might be talking about. Cause I probably don’t understand what automated intelligence might be. I think what we have to do is kind of maybe do an intelligence inventory. Eric Stromquist: 00:28:14 You know, Ken, listen, listen, you’re missing the whole point here. Look, I’ll have my machine, my machine call, uterine machine and they a lunch and figure all this stuff out. We’re not going to have to communicate anymore. We just have the machines. We’ll have the community of practice. That’s, that’s where you’re going with this, right? Ken Sinclair: 00:28:30 Uh, well I dunno, look, look at, look at all the touchy feely things on the, on the docket there. Yeah. That’s one thing that machines aren’t y’all like, you know, like you’re saying caring, healing and listening or new superpowers. Yeah. Eric Stromquist: 00:28:46 I’m going to tell you some, most of it you have to ask yourself a question is empathy, which is what all those things are. Is that a learned skill? Cause I told you this on a show before when I was in southern California about two years ago, the debate on the radio, because they just come out with the sex Bot and they were teaching them artificial intelligence that can be more empathetic and the debate on the radio as a view if you had sex with the sex bot where you cheating and so it’s, you know, it’s, I maybe you think about it. I think empathy is learned. We teach our children how to be empathetic. I think I’m at least, I think that we could debate that. Whether that’s an innate human quality or dress up. We just learn when we get culturized by growing up by our parents and going to school. It is the question, then we’ll be able to program it into the machines and there’ll be more empathetic than we are. Ken Smyers: 00:29:36 Well, to Ken’s point, I think that’s both. I think that’s what you can’t put inside the artificial intelligence or machines is you can’t put Ken Smyers: 00:29:42 that inate stuff. And you know, you have different psychologists saying different things, but we all come from the same well of consciousness. You know, we pass through a w what’s his name, your different Freud. Another colleague came through with young where we all with this guy, Joe Campbell travels the world, hundred 50 countries and how 150 different countries come with the same basic belief system. You know, about how you got here and where you’re going afterwards, you know. But to your point, I think, um, the, uh, subjects that we’re talking about is, is that this thing almost looks like a 1970. Remember how we did the we generation iGeneration we generation or the me Generation Innovation is almost looks like our whole concepts or taken a different direction where it used to be individuals, there were the major players in the industry and they dictated science stuff and now we’re seeing all this technology come in and it’s just dumping all these new possibilities. Ken Smyers: 00:30:41 And so this community of practice to me is an extension of of basically the thing you did with the collaboratorium. I’ve never seen so many people be willing to share so much what used to be like a sensitive information or proprietary information, but they want to get something done in order for them to get their agenda done quicker. They collaborate with somebody that’s also doing something better than they are and instead of each trying to create your own wheel, they’re putting together a, you know, this, this, this community and it’s an amazing thing because Hastac is it? We’re going to talk about haystack some at some point and, and we just have to celebrate what they did because that’s what they did. They did this, this amazing linkage of, of a lot of people that couldn’t really define how they were going to get there. Somebody laid down a map and then people contributed to it. And next thing you know, you’ve got a yellow brick road. Eric Stromquist: 00:31:29 Well listen, I want to, Ken, I want to follow up, uh, on your last episode, uh, El or semi last, last month’s edition because you know what, you had become quite a cult hero amongst the young young guns in our industry for, for numerous reasons. But the big one is a, and I’m going to ask you to expand on this is, you know, when you become, when you’re disrupted disruption. And so one of the questions we got from our community has asked, can you know, talk about the process of disrupting disruption. I mean, how would I do that? Because you know, you’ve seriously the young, I mean we were bringing in it kind of like a hero to these folks. Now again, how do we disrupt disruption? Well, I think it’s interesting once you learn how to grow younger, which is a, is a skill that takes a bit and you basically, Ken Sinclair: 00:32:27 yeah, Ken Sinclair: 00:32:27 bring these guys on his trusted advisors and start to understand and try to get inside their heads are at least closer to it. You understand this whole what the significance Ken Sinclair: 00:32:40 of being a digital native is. I mean, we’re looking at this from such a wrong way. You know, all our, we keep going off on these tangents. They don’t even think about that. They grew up with all this stuff falling on them and they understand they had been, don’t have the fear of the machine that we do because they understand the machine, they understand data that give it the data. We take the data away, you know, and uh, I think they just see it in a completely different light. So for them disrupting disruption, although they do it to themselves as well because they’re there a way ahead on the front. Some of the stuff they’re disrupting is totally amazing. I barely understand. But our disruption is easy. It’s easy to disrupt us and to disrupt the disruption is, is uh, is easy as well because our industry is slow to move. Ken Sinclair: 00:33:32 And, uh, we’re actually starting to see some of this stuff coming. We’re actually seeing, uh, you know, wifi sensors. We’re seeing the wire disappearing in our buildings and more, more devices, more it devices starting to appear. So that’s, that’s very disruptive. But it inside of it comes a gazillion opportunities and we’re getting where we had a, like a very small slice of the industry, things that were involving, now we’re involving integrator piece of the industry. So yeah, I don’t know. That answer wasn’t very good answer. I was kinda hoping you’d say something like, we know we got to kill the machines or something like that. You know, that’s what I was going for, Matt. Ken Smyers: 00:34:20 Well, I’ll tell you that again. You got an amazing job to kill the kids first day. Cause that’s the, they’re, they’re, they’re becoming closer and closer to these machines and they’d rather talk to the machines and us. I saw somebody put a, uh, I don’t know where it was, linkedin or somewhere, but it had all these kids in this beautiful museum in front of one of the most classic art and they’re all single child was looking up at the art, uh, and they were on their phones, iPhones or smart devices or whatever. And it just really caught it. Oh know to be in the middle of it, you know, our world thinking that we had, we had put these things on the wall to the epitomize the highlights of humankind and our loftiest, you know, artists and these kids just totally not interested. And so we’ll accept it. It’s funny cause sometimes the guys looking at it and what they’ll tell you is that’s not really the original. The original is in Spain, in the small town, this is a copy. Ken Sinclair: 00:35:21 We’re always checking facts. You assume that sometimes they’re, you know, they’re doing something different, but sometimes they’re just, they’re just way ahead of you. And lucky. Now, I’ll tell you what I learned my lesson and I, when we were talking about an old timer, walks into the office, a Johnson controls had a uh, a, a couple years ago, Eric and I were at it and they explained the mistake. They’d invested so much money in recruiting the top a young guns that could possibly get their hands on. Uh, and, and then they were losing them after the second year and it all boiled down to their boss and, and the one classic example they gave through where they had the outbrief thing and the people had to, could, could hear what they were being accused of or the bosses criticism from the young person’s perspective. And here it was that the guy who thought they were all screwing around on their smartphones and they were actually doing work and research because the companies that their, their, their, their computer system was so slow and lagging and they had so many security still at that they couldn’t get the information they needed to complete the project that was due. Ken Smyers: 00:36:20 So they were actually doing double time using their own device to get some information that the computers that they were given to is their work. Computers couldn’t perform and be, he looked outside, he said, everybody’s playing with their phones or playing games. There was an assumption that they were screwing off and here they were very, you know, professionally you’re trying to get the Dang job done. And they were being, you know, uh, there were being hindered by, anyhow, we, you’ve got a couple of good articles, this thing by Marc p talk and it’s got a picture and it says, you know, the built environment has been changing drastically, but what, what does mark say he says is two nights, 2019 the year of truth for the built environment. And he has all these questions. He has, well, two nights, 2019 be the truth that our dialogue senators around the proven technologies. So what’d you think about that? And it’s like the 10 commandments of, of the built space. Ken Smyers: 00:37:14 Yeah, that’s good. I’ve been, I’ve included in my article a link to it. Uh, it’s super mark. Mark always is very succinct and being able to kind of pull out around, uh, and it’s okay. So maybe this is the truth of artificial intelligence that I’m talking about is that I’m saying maybe, maybe we don’t want to call it that. Maybe we want to call it art or a automated intelligence. And I don’t know, sometimes by just calling something different, you start to discussions and I think that’s what I really want to do is start the discussion. We can, I think you’ve got an add on. Your name needs to be automated buildings and intelligence. How’s that? That’s right. Well the other problem is if I didn’t call it automated intelligence yeah then that’d be obsolete. I’d have to, I’d have to, how I got it. There was two choices. I either had to change automated buildings.to artificial buildings.com and I don’t think I would’ve sold with it after 20 years. Automated building Sterns to artificial buildings. So we had to, had to go to automated intelligence. I like that. I do automated versus our, I don’t like artificial either. Not to think about it cause you know, it always meant something unnecessarily sinister but not necessarily Ken Smyers: 00:38:31 as, as as you know, as firing as it could be. Artificial means that’s made up and, and, and not genuine. And so maybe we will help the mate, the next group of solution providers change it from artificial intelligence to automated intelligence. Eric Stromquist: 00:38:46 So Ken, uh, listen to about march of March issue is out automatedbuildings.com, be sure to check the I can, would you be able to hang around a bit longer and talk with us with our next guest?. Okay. Ken. So where are you going to be traveling this spring where it looks like we might be crossing paths a little bit. Okay. Well we’re off to Detroit and early May to control con we was just before this conference call, I was talking with Scott and the bedrock, a Joe from bedrock and uh, exciting stuff happening there. Actually. He, he just come back from Korea and some going to be some amazing stuff. I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you, but don’t, don’t, don’t do that. We’re going to be there too. So it’s going to, okay, I told you today I’d have to kill you. But Scott was Scott. Speaker 4: 00:39:32 It was Scott in Korea or a the gift. Actually, Scott Scott was a fighting icebergs and a theory coming out of the lake or something like that. He was driving in his car, asked for video, and he took his phone and held it up against the windshield and told me I was driving. So, so listen to, you can still go there. Are there links both on automated buildings.com site and control trends, uh, hey, be get a chance to go to this conference is fantastic. And uh, the next big conference had coming up is haystack and our next guest is going to be able to talk a bit about that, Kenny. So how about introducing him? Ken Smyers: 00:40:07 I’d love to, in fact, um, I’d like to introduce Ruairi Barnwell. He is a group principal at d l r and the DLR group, uh, was recently recognized that the controlled trends awards because they won the project haystack award. And that’s a very, very exciting thing. And, uh, we’re very happy to welcome to the show, Rory Barnwell. Welcome to show Roy everyone. Good to see you again, buddy. Ruairi Barwell: 00:40:32 Hey guys, how’s it going? Great to be here. Eric Stromquist: 00:40:34 Good to see you too. You were on episode 222 and uh, I’ll always remember that it was great, lively conversation and, uh, could you give a sort of a refresher and an update on what’s going on with DLR group? Ruairi Barwell: 00:40:48 Sure. Well, thanks again guys. Really excited to be back on again. Um, I guess just to recap on DLR group who we are and what we do. And so we’re a large design firm. Um, you know, 1200 people, 30 offices around the, around the globe, um, architects and engineers, um, you know, our core American sectors or education, workplace justice and civic, uh, hospitality. We’re actually the largest education design firm in the world. So that leads us down some pretty interesting paths. Um, so yeah, that’s kind of a, we’re busy. I’m sitting here in Chicago right now and looking out the window and, uh, all the cranes and all new construction going on. So, yeah, Ruairi Barwell: 00:41:32 we’re trying to make it, Ken Smyers: 00:41:36 yeah. Good stuff. All right, well, we’re really happy to see you down in Atlanta and, uh, recognize you right away. And we have to say hello before the show actually gotten underway. But, uh, you wonder, pretty impressive. Tell us about the project Haystack Award and how you guys won that. Ruairi Barwell: 00:41:54 Well, it was quite an honor. We’ve obviously been big believers in haystack and you know, practitioners, the haystack methodology and what we do and how we, you know, collect and, uh, organize and analyze data to our, our smart building a praxis are amongst monitoring based commissioning. Uh, you know, how we, what we call building optimization. That’s the practice I lead. Um, so yeah, it was quite an honor, right? I mean, well, the night that was a controlled times Lord. Eric Stromquist: 00:42:36 Yeah. So an engineer and designer standpoint as well as a, you know, an energy optimizer and buildings for our community might not know. What do you see the advantage is to project haystack? Ruairi Barwell: 00:42:49 Um, well, again, for us, you know, a large part of what we do within DLR group, uh, our building optimization practice is, I mean, it’s just dealing with data and at the end of the day, um, we’re answering the try to answer the same questions as everyone else in our community is what do we do with that data? How do we make it actionable? How do we organize it, you know, create some actionable insights from that data. So what are, we’re trying to optimize the energy use of a million square foot commercial office in downtown Chicago or, you know, a college campus in the suburbs. MMM. It’s, you know, it’s the same drive trying to answer the same questions as everyone else. Ken Smyers: 00:43:35 What are your clients asking for now? What are your types of clients and what do they ask? So you’re the largest provider of services to the education world. What are they asking for? Ruairi Barwell: 00:43:46 Yeah, I mean, as an example, you know, we’re working with large school districts here in Chicago across the country. Um, you know, going and getting ready to go out for a large bond referendums, you know, they’re trying to answer some big questions like, are we, uh, you know, how are we, you know, here in Chicago, we’ve got a couple of districts going out for $180 million contract for, and then down in Texas, they don’t, they’re close to a billion. I mean, figuring out Texas, right? But we’re all trying to answer the same questions. You know, are we, should we build new versus renovation, throwing good money after bad, you know, how are the buildings performing and should we invest in these existing buildings? Should we decommission them, build a new, know you were high performing buildings and, um, you know, they’re, they’re asking the same questions. You know, how, you know, how do we benchmark buildings? Ruairi Barwell: 00:44:40 You know, I think we’re, we’re recognized as a, as an industry and this community in particular that, you know, energy benchmarking alone. There’s not a, it’s not a good indicator of how well, or poorly performing. So we’re starting to look at the other key performance indicators that, you know, how is, how, how, how well a building is performing. I in indoor environmental quality tracking, indoor air quality and thermal comfort of occupants, Acoustic Comfort, visual comfort, your user functionality. Now these are, these are things that we’re trying to tie real data to versus, you know, we’ve, we’ve talked about him, I think this conversation has been pretty mainstream for the last couple of Ken Smyers: 00:45:22 the metrics. Are you able to provide additional metrics to improve the understanding of how important those, those things that you had mentioned, lighting, acoustics, I mean, does that, does that really have a profound impact on the educational environment or is that more, is that hard? Ruairi Barwell: 00:45:38 No, no, absolutely. I think we’re getting past, we’ve made a very focused decision to kind of try and there’s so much noise and marketing, you know, yeah. Spills everyone to call them. Um, we’ve already focused on trying to get some good case studies and trying to, you know, for example, in a couple of cool projects you’re working on right now we’re doing a large project with the GSA. We’re part of the Harvard School of Public Health. Um, it’s doctor Joe Allen’s group, um, where we’re trying to evolve their post occupancy evaluation process. Um, really tried to add another dimension to, um, to their, you know, what they’re, they’re trying to fill it up and evidence based design library so they can continually iterate there. We’re working directly with their workplace, um, uh, workplace global workspace leader and um, you know, adding in that realtime indoor air quality, indoor environmental quality is more than just the air quality and all the occupants satisfaction. Ruairi Barwell: 00:46:44 Um, putting real metrics to that and tying that back to work or productivity. So that’s again, I think that’s been a manager in conversation now for, for a couple of years where I’m, I’m pretty excited with the crossover between, you know, worker productivity, the workplace, um, you know, getting some proper metrics for that to education. So now we’re starting to see equal amounts of research being done and if not a little more now at the moment with, um, you know, students, you know, student achievement, you know, how does the, out of the class, how did the before, how does the performance of the built environment, the classroom impacts a student’s learning ability, you know, the cognitive of a, of a child brain. How that, um, how, you know, is is the classroom ventilated enough? Is it too hot, too cold or the acoustics poor, the lights too harsh or too damn, you know, we’re working in a school districts that have, you know, kind of okay lighting retrofits that were driven by energy, not so much the, you know, the function of the classroom. Um, and, and again, and try and tie that back to, you know, how engaged the student is and ultimately student achievement. And I think we’re looking at more or less the same ties as a, as far as on the workplace side and an office and productivity. Ruairi Barwell: 00:48:11 Okay. Well, uh, honestly we’re in the middle of, uh, of working on this GSA project is ongoing. It’s on the boards right now. That’s why it’s top of my mind. But he’s kind of, well, I’m, I’m excited about. Um, so I would say look for the, I think this would be the third iteration of the cog effect study from Harvard School of Public Health. Um, and so that, you know, that’s only going to get, there’s just going to be more iterations of that until, you know, I think, okay, we’ve withdrawn it’s common sense, you know. Um, I think that we’re just trying to put real data to it. Um, you know, another project I’m really excited about, we’re working with Chicago public schools and the third largest school district in the country where, you know, there, uh, there, uh, exploring an initiative for a lot of textile and that’s zero school and you know, we can have a, it’s really easy. You haven’t that Sarah School, right? Turn off the light board up the windows, tell the kids the worst, some colts and light some candles. You know, we want a second, but Marcy sophisticated approach than that. Um, so we’re, uh, you know, using the same data gathering, collecting, collecting data, organizing it, analyzing it, modeling it for future retrofits, you know, trying to show, uh, I’m not, uh, basically a roadmap for how can we get to the zero? What is it feasible? I mean, that’s the question we’re trying to answer. Ken Smyers: 00:49:51 Amazing work bringing our, bringing emotions to buildings. In other words, we’re taking the things like comfy that began way back when, where it was giving people with smart devices the opportunity to interface with building automation system to get some kind of an immediate response if they needed air conditioning or heating, whatever. And as soon as they were company, they hit a button, say coffee. So Ken has done a lot of studies and a lot of work on it. Can, I know you got to have a good question for Rory regarding these, these exact studies because isn’t this the chance that they, the, the emotional side of a building can be exposed through these new retrofit new programs? Ken Sinclair: 00:50:29 I think he has an excellent start. And actually I’d like to start by applauding what, uh, what he’s doing. And his company is certainly for a major consultant to embrace haystack and, uh, the other health parameters of buildings and put them in their lead is, is significant than I think he is definitely an example to, oh, a lot of consultants who are, are kind of hiding, hiding their head from all of this. And uh, so he’s well on his way and as the exposes all his data, he is going to be able to interpret the emotion of a building. I’ll be better than anybody. And uh, the fact it’s going to be in haystack standards, uh, is also exciting, uh, because that means that when we do analytics and we start to use a voice interface and device lifts interfaces and the autonomous interactions, uh, I think he’s ahead of the game and even even to speak to our, uh, our march theme, the Automated Intelligence, uh, I think he’s well on his way to achieving that as well. So I would probably just start with a whole bunch of Kudos. Ruairi Barwell: 00:51:51 Thank you. Ken Sinclair: 00:51:54 No, actually the question I would like to ask you is how do we get a string of consultants like you? I mean that’s our problem as an industry is really have traditional consultants that are controlled by lawyers that are immobilized and they’re putting in their 1956 system because they worried that they’re going to get sued if they try anything new. So you guys somehow, uh, moved over into risk management. They’re looking at changing world. How’d you do that? Ruairi Barwell: 00:52:31 We’re talking about energy or whatever we’re talking about indoor air quality, indoor environmental quality in general. The level of transparency. We’re at the tip of the iceberg there. Um, you know, the sensors are becoming cheaper and more available. You know, we can, where we can practically do realtime indoor air quality monitoring. We’re working because you know, a friend of the show, Albert, he’s on it, you know, how is already working on a real time. We’re going to be using his sensors for, to, to track this real time. It’s very affordable sensors that are high quality that are going to still meet the well building standards for accuracy. The problem with answers as you got what you pay for. So if you can get, you know, the correct, mmm, Ruairi Barwell: 00:53:26 nope. We’re tracking typically CO2, that’s the one we all kind of default to, but also PLCs, how the material selection impacts the environments. Um, pm 2.5, you know, how the, how to particulate matter in the air stream, you know, how well are we still trading the air, how clean was the air. A lot of this technology comes from China, I believe it or not because the outdoor air so poor over there. This is kind of initiatives, you know, the badge of honor in China is to show that, hey, it’s not necessarily I got to lead platinum building , I’ve got to building with clean air.. You start to see initiatives like, uh, you know, the recess, uh, certification reset in the certification. That’s primarily based on just, uh, it’s only based on indoor air quality, you know, so, Speaker 6: 00:54:19 right. Ruairi Barwell: 00:54:25 Well, you know, it, it’s, it’s, it’s a fun vibe, you know, practice a little bit. You know, scary time, you know, for, for uh, when we disclosed this amount of information to a building operators, we work with property management firms. We work with a nutshell reads, um, ourselves as a design firm. Now our level of transparency, our post postdoc, the evaluation for our own designs, it’s become a lot more rigorous. So, you know, not only are we focused on energy and the outcomes and okay, are we know we got to hit this Gui for the building. What now? What are we going to hit this threshold for co two levels for particulate matter or you know, for um, the materials that were, that, you know, everything from them at the carpet that’s been selected impacts the indoor air quality impacts. Ken Sinclair: 00:55:16 Go ahead. No, I was just wanting to pick, pick up on that. That’s another interesting side of it is as the devices and the things are starting to talk to us, I just came off a conference call with getting ready for the control con event in Detroit and Joe from bedrock had just come back from Korea and he’d been talking to the LG folks and the LG folks on their units are absolutely prepared to provide complete open all of the information they have internal to their units and so all of a sudden pick up. That’s like a whole new world to us was where the OEM always kind of kept everything and you bought it and you know he never really knew what it does now into your transparency of data. You’re having this, these machines and as a consultant you can control that in the fact that you say, I want devices that are more transparent and that they give me new data. If they don’t give me my data, I’m going to buy product B, not product day because Ken Sinclair: 00:56:24 this guy gives me more data every week. Gives me the most data, maybe the product as long as it gets Ruairi Barwell: 00:56:32 after your original question. And how do we get more people on board? I think the really nice thing about working with an entity like the GSA is that they’re doing this to be the, to be a leader. Everything we’re doing is going to be published publicly available. There’s no secret there. You know, everything. We’re going to be doing this completely open and we’re kind of share best practices super. And that’s why, you know, so we’ve teamed with Harvard, uh, there they’re just going to continue to do great things and change the industry. Um, uh, we’re starting to see, you know, Lawrence Berkeley national labs and the Department of Energy got on board with these, you know, these same metrics and uh, um, ourselves and, uh, four or five or order pure group, uh, your, um, companies are, are currently work in the early stages with the national labs and Department of Energy to, to kind of just a roadmap out how prevalent types of analytics that we’re doing. Ken Smyers: 00:57:34 A couple of things, you just came back from an important trip this morning, didn’t you? You were in Minneapolis, Minnesota this morning and you came back. Ruairi Barwell: 00:57:41 Yeah. Minneapolis is a near and dear to my heart. That’s where if my second city, so I grew up in Ireland. If you can’t tell from my accent, cargo is my city. Been here for 20 years now, but my wife is from Minneapolis, are on Minneapolis office. Nope. We’re kind of tied at the hip with, with, uh, with them how we’re structured regionally, our CEO, it’s up there. Um, so yeah, I came back from probably the only place right now do any major city that’s colored in Chicago at the mall. I didn’t, I wasn’t very sure if I’d make it out with the smell. Um, but I was up there. Yeah. For a, a very special read them. We were actually taken off, well, don’t kick it off. My good friend, uh, broad culture over at Hga, uh, has, uh, has over the past a year, 18 months. It’s been very successful with a couple of more teammates that heads up there and getting the big TC, uh, group going up at the building intelligence group, twin cities. And um, so we had a great, uh, meeting. We thought I had some great meetings over the past couple of months and that’s really, uh, so last night there was maybe 60, 70 people. Um, kind of the same cross section of card that you’d see at real calm. I’d be gone, you know, systems integrators, vendors, you know, some more proactive, um, design consultants, you know. MMM. Usual Xbox, you know. Um, Ruairi Barwell: 00:59:22 but everyone comment that, um, there’s really no outlet for smart. There’s really no smoking. We got USG, we see receive, got Ashrae for the engineers, but there’s really no local connection point or you know, people in the smart building industry. I was amazed. I had done a fantastic job up there. In fact, I should probably got him on Eric Stromquist: 00:59:46 right. It’s very dynamic individual. Ruairi Barwell: 00:59:50 Oh yeah. It’s fantastic. And uh, he’s done a great job with that. So, um, as a result of the success of a big building intelligence group, twin cities, we’re going to start a big shy here, April. So we’re saying we’re going to basically start the Chicago franchise here for anyone out there that’s in the Chicago area. Hit me up and I’ll give you the details on the first meeting. It’s going to be on April 11th year. We’re going to host the first one at our office, uh, looking for volunteers and Geneva, our committee members and everything else. So we’re looking to get a good group here. It’s a kickoff. The, uh, the first one, Ken Smyers: 01:00:30 critical. How’s the soccer program going? I understand. Last time we talked to you, you are, and your soccer outfit because you were heading down practice, Ruairi Barwell: 01:00:39 right? You know, uh, I got one thing I have in mind for soccer. I have plenty of sad. Ken Smyers: 01:00:45 Yeah. Ruairi Barwell: 01:00:47 Liverpool happened to have my liver big Liverpool Fan, so nervous times at the moment that we got them to every run in here for the Premiere League. Hopefully. Uh, the first year [inaudible] 92 I think so, Eric Stromquist: 01:01:07 yeah. We’ve got a pretty good soccer team down in Atlanta now that make us do Ruairi Barwell: 01:01:12 awesome. Yeah, no, I’m a, I’m a big Chicago fire power as well. They were doing nearly as good as your guys are doing. Ken Smyers: 01:01:21 Yeah, you can pay more money. Eric Stromquist: 01:01:31 You know, I wanted to sort of ask and sort of cycled back around to, it seems like you’re doing things and getting things done that, you know, we treat very few consultants sort of getting the traction. You aren’t terms of changing how people are doing, building automation controls and, and making a more emotional and all that stuff. You know, for our audience in mind, I know you guys have all of the offices I think in 30 countries or there abouts. Ruairi Barwell: 01:01:57 Well it’s, it’s 30 location. The majority of those are in the Norton in North America. We’ve got an office in Shanghai, Dubai in Nairobi stuff. The kind of global reach it. Yeah. Yeah. Ken Smyers: 01:02:09 So I was just curious if, if you see things differently or done differently in different countries and is it part of how you guys are sort of being innovative, the fact that you sort of have a global perspective instead of a just a North American history Ruairi Barwell: 01:02:23 perspective? I think it’s definitely an advantage. You know, I think myself personally, we have a lot of interactions with my, my old college buddies are working across the world and uh, your fellows kind of been a front runner, but I truly believe we’re in the right place here and not there. There’s so much exciting things going on here in North America. I think the change that’s going to happen from here, there’s so much innovation, so much, uh, so much, okay, it’s mainstream now. You know, we’re not talking about someone, not something on the periphery. You know, when you see big players like the GSA, you know, when you see people like Chicago public schools, you know, I’ve mentioned there their public sector. I think I actually Ma personally got most enjoyable working with developers that I, you know, I enjoy the fast paced nature of a working with developers. Ruairi Barwell: 01:03:16 And you know, when you start to see, you know, the people who are typically focused on dollars and cents and bottom line and that’s it gotta be like that when they start to focus on wellness and amenities. But you know, again, it’s still dollars and cents. Attracting and retaining the best tenants in your building is still attracting and retaining the best talent for those tenants. So when you start to see, you know, a smart building, uh, strategies start to filtrate into the, into the mainstream because it makes sense for these dollars are the developers to do it. You know, that that’s a woodwind. Eric Stromquist: 01:03:55 Yeah. Cause it seems like the buildings are going to be more competitive as Ken Saint Claire, who’s our resident millennial here has pointed out that, uh, you know, you better have a nice space if you want me to come into the office and work. So, so I think, you know, there’s a lot of awareness about wanting to have a great space and energy efficient space and obviously a space that leads to productivity. So it seems like that conversation is shifting. Where will you say developers and owners are more open to having that versus just being driven by energy or low cost when so hopefully that trend will Ruairi Barwell: 01:04:25 absolutely. Yeah. I mean one of the most progressive developers we’re working with here locally in Chicago, Sterling Bay, you know, they uh, they, uh, Google’s Midwest headquarters, Mcdonald’s global headquarters, moved downtown from suburbs group on Gogo, go down the list. And uh, you know, we’re doing a lot of work with them on their existing building side. But also we’re, we’re really lucky in Chicago. We’ve got a very progressive utility as well. So we’ve got combat in Chicago and we’ve got some legislation at the state level, like the future and jobs act, that kind of mine bass. But these guys have to invest in energy efficiency programs. But we’ve got the monitoring based commissioning program here in Chicago, which is really a, you know, it’s a fantastic

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