It would be difficult nowadays not to come across a piece of news, article or posting related to Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Whether it is smart appliances and home automation systems with intelligent digital assistants, autonomous vehicles, advanced medical diagnostics, virtual…
CopperTree Analytics Wins Prestigious Sodexo Partner Award for Sustainable Facility Management
Surrey, B.C., July 2, 2019 — CopperTree Analytics, the worldwide leader in building data and energy analytics software, was announced the winner of the Better Tomorrow 2025 Partner of the Year Award for Sustainable Facility Management by our partner Sodexo, one…
Fundamental Series on Building Analytics: How to evaluate the different Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics technologies available today – Part 1
Our previous blog in this series ended with the question, “why implement fault detection and diagnostics in buildings?” Whether you are already convinced that your organization needs to jump on the Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics (AFDD) bandwagon, or you are…
Auditing Building Comfort Series: Safety & Energy Use in Lab Spaces
Lab spaces in K-12 schools and especially on university campuses are notorious for consuming a large proportion of the overall energy expenditure in their building portfolios. This is largely because of the necessary safety measures that are taken to maintain a…
How Analytics Help Facility Teams Transition to Preventative Maintenance
On the whole, facility teams struggle with a lack of resources. Dwindling workforce and budget cuts in parallel with steadily increasing responsibility contribute to a constant feeling of playing catch-up. Making the transition to preventative maintenance can seem, frankly, unattainable –…
How Facility Teams Can Avoid Information Overload (& Get Stuff Done)
Today, we have no lack of data for our buildings. The issue that we need to tackle as our world becomes more and more saturated with data is avoiding information overload and instead curating important data that is actionable in the…
Where is Facilities Management Headed in 2019?
by Andrew Marsh, Building Automation Expert With 2019 officially here, I thought I’d reflect on the changes I see coming in the industry for the New Year and beyond. The facility management space has been slow to change, but we are seeing…
Flipping the Script on How We Talk About Maintenance
This blog post was originally published in October 2017 as a guest post on The Maintainers blog. The Maintainers is a global, interdisciplinary research network that explores the importance of maintenance and the ways in which it supports and sometimes runs…