Downtime is the big bad nemesis of every business. Outages can cost over $100 million and jeopardise security, revenue loss and harm to reputation. With outage costs on the rise, a greater demand for data centres and the ever-increasing value of the data they house – downtime can be disastrous. Within data centres, failure causes look like this: 27% service issues, 26% installation issues, 22%
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Hidden fees, ownership, and access. Roshan Gill outlines some issues you should clear up from the get-go in your building data strategy. A good building data strategy should involve a degree of planning for the future and help put measures into place to ensure that whichever piece of the puzzle is being installed or worked on is connected, functional and future integration ready. Obviously, ther
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You probably have a lot more building data available to you than you realise. Here’s Iain Robinson on how to identify it, use it and keep it tidy. Before you even start having conversations about pouring data into a BMS (building management system) to automate and streamline your operations, take stock of the data you’ve probably already been tracking and recording. At Grosvenor we tend to di
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Iain Robinson, BMS Operations Manager at Grosvenor Engineering Group, outlines the potential of the integrated BMS space, with advice for getting implementation right at any stage. Countless advancements have been made in building management technology in recent years. Much of them have to do with the convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). These steps forward c
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