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Rethinking smart buildings : Real estate as an active contributor to business success
Corporate Real Estate Journal,
9
(2),
111-120
(2019)
Abstract
The traditional focus on buildings has been on cost optimisation or maximising efficiency. With new digital solutions, however, buildings can start actively contributing to the revenue generation of an organisation by increasing productivity and fostering innovation at the workplace. In addition, due to the transformation of energy markets into enabling demand response solutions and offering remuneration to consumers of energy for providing demand flexibility, buildings can become generators of entirely new income streams for building owners.
Keywords: smart buildings; user-centricity; future of work; workplace technology; workplace solutions; PropTech; intelligent infrastructure; distributed energy; demand response; virtual power plants
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Author's Biography
Elisa Rönkä is a business development innovation manager at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Located in Zurich, Switzerland, she leads the go-to-market of human-centric workplace solutions for the Digital Buildings business in Europe. With a diverse background in finance, design thinking and development functions, Elisa aims to add value to all stakeholders within the building life cycle by promoting emerging digital technologies. As a frequent speaker addressing the importance of smart buildings and their value to business and society, Elisa passionately contributes to the transformation of the building industry into a digitally enabled and experience-focused one.
