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Let’s Talk About Your Deferred Maintenance Backlog (And How to Actually Pay for It).

2026-07-22T21:00:04+00:00Categories: Analytics, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Programs, Sustainability|Tags: , , , , , |

Facing a mountain of deferred maintenance backlog and don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered. Across the U.S., building operators are facing a challenging combination of aging infrastructure, rising utility costs, shrinking capital budgets, and corporate environmental goals. Drowning in deferred maintenance (DM) backlogs, too often they are trapped in a reactive cycle, focusing on fixing equipment [...]

Your Building Automation System Is Part of Your Attack Surface. And Threat Actors Know It.

2026-07-22T21:00:22+00:00Categories: Cybersecurity, Master Systems Integration, News and Information|Tags: , , , , , |

Why recent cybersecurity incidents are forcing enterprise owners to rethink building systems security. Your buildings are connected—but are they protected? Is your BAS cybersecurity posture reactive or proactive? Over the past few years, cybersecurity incidents have made one thing clear: Building Automation Systems (BAS) are no longer isolated operational tools. They are enterprise digital assets. And increasingly, are enterprise [...]

Delivering Energy Performance & Streamlined Controls: The MSI Approach

2025-11-28T13:49:01+00:00Categories: Analytics, Cybersecurity, Master Systems Integration|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Why Your Building Systems Aren’t Working Together—And What to Do About It Unlocking energy, cybersecurity, and performance outcomes with a smarter building systems integration model As buildings get smarter, many enterprise organizations—especially in healthcare—are finding that their systems, well, aren’t. HVAC, lighting, metering, nurse call systems, emergency power… they’re often siloed, misaligned, and deployed without a strategy for how [...]

Haystack Connect 2025: Takeaways on AI, Ontologies & the Future of Building Intelligence

2025-11-28T13:49:08+00:00Categories: Analytics, Corporate Sustainability, Cybersecurity, Energy Efficiency|Tags: , , , |

If AI was the buzzword of 2024, then 2025 is proving to be the year that the building automation and smart systems community began to move from hype to application. This year’s Haystack Connect conference confirmed a clear shift: from conceptual digital twin aspirations toward the tangible promise of automated tagging, ontology integration, and the real use of AI [...]

Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey to a Smarter, Greener Campus

2025-11-28T13:49:13+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, Sustainability|Tags: , , , |

Overview At the 2025 IDEA Campus Energy Conference in Boston, we joined leaders from across the campus energy spectrum, taking to the stage with our long-time client UC Irvine (UCI), and our professional partners Black & Veatch, to share an in-depth look at UCI’s long-term, practical approach to decarbonization. Our presentation—“Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey”—offered a rare, honest [...]

Driving Decarbonization with Life-Cycle Assessment: Insights from Altura’s Webinar on Cerclos’ eTool (Video)

2025-11-28T13:49:26+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, News and Information, Sustainability|

As the building industry increasingly focuses on sustainability, the importance of decarbonization in the design and construction process has become paramount. In our recent webinar with Cerclos, we offered an in-depth exploration of how to effectively approach decarbonization for large campus building projects. We share insights not only addressing the technicalities of carbon reduction, but also how to [...]

Strategies for Making Existing Buildings More Energy Efficient (Video)

2025-11-28T13:52:42+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, News and Information, Performance Delivery, Sustainability|

Maximizing existing building energy performance with real-time data Fresh off an incredible experience at #Verge2023, one of Altura's principals and environmental programs leader, Ryan Gaylord, engaged in a captivating conversation with our friend James Darius Ball at GreenBiz. They explored the current state of affairs in sustainable energy tactics and how Altura continues to approach decarbonization harnessing real-time data [...]

The Benefits of Implementing a Strategic Roadmap for Long-Term Decarbonization: PART 2

2025-11-28T13:49:37+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability|Tags: , , , , |

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Check out Part 1 here. Now that we have discussed the nuts and bolts of structuring a program-wide decarbonization roadmap at the enterprise level, it's time to talk about the good stuff: the benefits! So, how can these steps create real-world benefits for an organization? Let's explore the benefits of implementing [...]

The Benefits of Implementing a Strategic Roadmap for Long-Term Decarbonization: PART 1

2025-11-28T13:49:44+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability|Tags: , , , , |

In the global effort to tackle climate change, companies in every industry are setting ambitious goals to slash or eliminate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next few decades. But even the everyday decisions being made now, like swapping out an old building HVAC system with similar like-for-like equipment, can throw a wrench into a company's plans to [...]

The Master Systems Integrator: Orchestrating the Symphony of Smart Buildings

2025-11-28T13:52:14+00:00Categories: Master Systems Integration|Tags: , , |

If you are at all connected to the smart buildings ecosystem, you have no doubt heard more and more about the concept of the Master Systems Integrator (MSI). I’ll put my qualms with “master” being in this title to the side for the moment so we can dive deeper into what a MSI is and why you should care. [...]

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