| | OCTOBER 20198CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONMacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions makes buildings work better. The Seattle-based contractor not only designs and builds energy-efficient buildings, but it also ensures that they stay that way through post-build optimization services by shaking up the tradition-bound construction industry. Using Internet of Things and data analytics technologies, MacDonald-Miller helps customers build energy-efficient buildings and keep them operating at peak efficiency. When one looks across the construction landscape, there really hasn't been a lot of change for 50 years. Even with most smart buildings, all their different moving parts--heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, security systems, lighting, room scheduling, and on and on--still function separately. They are rarely connected with each other or to the building's maintenance system.As a result, facilities management as a service has remained very reactive. For instance, a building manager receives an alert from one system, creates a work order in a second system, and sends the field service team to hunt around for manuals and parts in a third or fourth system. The amount of wasted time and savings is inefficient, and ultimately burdens the building owner with higher energy and maintenance costs.To begin solving for this opportunity in a different way, we have partnered with Microsoft to take building maintenance into the twenty-first century. We first concentrated on getting all our data in one place--the By Bradd Busick, CIO, MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions
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