At the inflection point: Smart buildings an opportunity for growth, collaboration - On-Site Magazine

Smart building technology is gaining ground across Canada, with wider adoption expected over the next decade. It is still relatively early days for Canada's smart building market. Most projects continue to take the conventional route, employing HVAC, electrical, lighting, security and other such systems in their separate silos. But early adopters have begun to look at buildings not as a jumble of interdependent systems, but as the system as a whole, capable of integrating subsystems to improve energy use, guide automation and optimize the wide array of connected components. Smart building discussions have been ongoing in the construction industry for at least 20 years, according to Sam Boyajian, vice-president of Integrated Building Technology at Modern Niagara.