John Hatcher

CIBSE has announced a landmark donation of £1.2 million from The Manly Trust to support the development of its new Skills Hub at its headquarters in central London, UK, now officially named The Manly Trust Skills Hub.

The Nemetschek Group has announced a key milestone in strengthening and scaling its AI offering in the Design segment. The preview of Graphisoft’s new collaboration and AI-assisted design initiatives, currently being developed, connects early-stage decision making, open collaboration and design experience.

UK NZCBS Performance Evaluations will enable buildings to verify performance against the Standard’s requirements, even if they are not meeting all of them.

Sadiq Sayed, SVP digital energy software business at Schneider Electric

Peter Smyth, director of innovation & technology, Bidvest Noonan takes a deep dive into smart buildings.

What began with a bold decision in 2004 has grown into a partnership beyond a typical business relationship. For two decades, Flextron and EnOcean have worked closely together. Trust, pioneering spirit, and innovation define their cooperation. Together, they create solutions that deliver real customer value. A small project evolved into a true success story. It shows how sustainable partnerships succeed. Flextron and EnOcean act as reliable and committed partners. They stay one step ahead. Customer benefit always comes first.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched Asset Performance Advanced, a new AI-enabled managed building service. By combining an integrated predictive failure mode classification with advanced fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), the solution helps customers across industries optimize operations, improve energy performance, and enhance occupant comfort. Bringing together predictive intelligence, prescriptive AI, and expert-guided actions, Asset Performance Advanced supports the transition toward human-centric autonomous buildings – enabling them to sense issues, decide actions, and continuously improve performance.

Many households in France already use smart home devices: intelligent thermostats, connected shutters, security cameras or app-based lighting controls. Getting started is easy, and the benefits are quickly noticeable: more comfort, greater security and a more conscious use of energy.

Griff Thomas, executive director of energy transition and external affairs at United Infrastructure and managing director at GTEC Training looks at net zero design.

I've been re-reading a 2018 book this month, Human + Machine, and one figure keeps nagging at me. It sets out four architectures for how AI amplifies people at work… one agent applied to big data for one human, one agent serving a group of humans, several agents amplifying a single human, and multiple agents amplifying multiple humans in parallel.