Advise building owners on smart technology — sensors, systems integration, analytics, and tenant experience — with vendor-neutral judgment.
What you’ll learn
- Map the smart building stack: devices, networks, platforms, applications
- Assess a building’s current state and define use cases that pay
- Evaluate vendors and avoid lock-in with an integration-first mindset
- Address cybersecurity and data governance for building systems
- Build the roadmap and business case owners will fund
Lessons
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 1: The smart building stack and market landscape
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 2: Use cases that actually pay
Smart building projects fail when technology leads and problems follow. Covers the proven-ROI use cases: fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), energy optimization, space utilization for lease decisions, predictive maintenance realism, indoor air quality monitoring, and access/visitor experience. Each with the value mechanism, typical costs, and the prerequisites that determine success. Qualifying a Use CaseSix steps […]
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 3: Assessing the building: current-state discovery
The assessment methodology: system inventory (what exists, what age, what protocols), network readiness review, data availability audit (can you even get the points out of the BAS?), stakeholder interviews (operations, IT, leasing, tenants), and gap analysis against target use cases. Produces the current-state report that anchors every recommendation. Current-State DiscoverySix steps that produce the current-state […]
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 4: Architecture, vendors, and avoiding lock-in
The decisions that haunt buildings for 15 years. Covers open vs. proprietary tradeoffs, the independent-data-layer concept, integration requirements to put in every RFP, vendor evaluation criteria beyond the demo (API access, data ownership terms, exit provisions), and pilot design — small enough to be safe, real enough to prove value. Includes an RFP requirements checklist. […]
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 5: Cybersecurity and data governance for building systems
OT security is now a board-level issue. Covers the building-systems threat landscape, network segmentation principles (why BAS never shares the tenant network), vendor remote-access governance, patching realities for building controllers, and data governance: what’s collected, who owns it, privacy obligations for occupancy/camera data. You’ll build a security questions list for every vendor conversation. Securing Building […]
Smart Building Consultant Course — Lesson 6: Roadmap, business case, and running the engagement
Pulling it together: the phased roadmap (foundation → quick wins → advanced use cases), business case construction (hard savings, soft value, risk mitigation), governance for ongoing operation (who owns the analytics findings?), and consulting delivery — assessment engagements, owner’s advisor roles, pricing models, and the executive presentation that gets funded. Certificate of Completion included. From […]