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W

ith rapid urbanization

putting ever-increasing

demands on infrastructure,

buildings around the globe

are by necessity growing

taller and becoming more

functional in nature. Thanks

to those same demands,

and the rise of new technologies, buildings are also become

progressively smarter in ways that would have been hard to

predict even a decade ago.

KONE Americas Executive Vice President

Larry Wash

is a passionate advocate and trend-watcher in the area of

smart building development. He says many of the more

fundamental changes go far deeper than what an end user

would notice on the surface. “The way buildings are being

designed, the way they’re being constructed and the way

they’re being managed are all changing, with more smart

technology being introduced into each of those processes.”

INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

The benefits of smart building innovation can already be

felt in a building’s design phase, well before the first shovel

hits the ground.

Universal advances in the area of smart design have come

in the form of BIM, or Building Information Modeling.

“For us, that’s a complete digital representation of the

physical and functional characteristics of an elevator,” Wash

explains.

In addition to providing a shareable 3D blueprint for a

“Once you get people

into elevators, the

information flow can

be tailored to who

the person is and

what their purpose is

in the building.”

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