In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki sits down with Shahar Peleg, a veteran product and innovation leader in the smart building and IoT space.

Shahar’s view: corporate real estate keeps optimising the wrong line item.

Energy savings are easy to measure, but people and space drive far greater impact on performance, retention, and the bottom line.

We dig into:

- People + Real Estate = True Cost Drivers: Why energy is the smallest line item, yet gets the most attention.

- Gut Feelings ≠ Strategy: why so many workplace decisions are still made on instinct, not insight, and how to fix that.

- Flexibility Over Fixed Costs: What happens when contracts and space usage react dynamically to data?

- Agility as a Mindset: Why real estate teams need to think more like product teams, test, iterate, and act fast.

- From Cost Centre to Performance Driver: How data-driven flexibility can cut costs and improve productivity.

About Shahar Peleg

Shahar has spent most of his career turning smart building and IoT ideas into commercial success stories from early-stage startups to global corporates. His focus is on using data, agility, and user insight to drive tangible outcomes for both building operators and occupants.

Watch if you are:

- A workplace or CRE leader trying to prove ROI beyond energy savings

- A facilities or sustainability professional rethinking performance metrics

- A technology provider helping clients move from static reporting to dynamic action.

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In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben Muwoki interviews Andy Frank, founder of Novant and a 25-year veteran of smart-building tech. Andy's POV is that most smart-building failures aren’t technical; they’re human. We chase dashboards and pilots, but skip coordination, outcomes, and the basic question: why are we doing it this way?

We dig into:

• “Closing the loop” beats dashboards: data is noise until a corrective action happens.
• Outcomes first, tech second: start with the problem, then pick tools.
• Fixing the handoffs: design → construction → operations are broken; bake data infrastructure early and align incentives.
• Independent help matters: owners need trusted advisors/MSIs who will push back and protect outcomes.

About Andy Frank

Andy is the founder of Novant, focused on building data infrastructure that makes information easy to consume and act on. His career spans from an early Software Engineer at Tridium to co-founding SkyFoundry and, more recently, the Founder of Novant, giving him a rare view of why deployments stall and how to design them so people, not just platforms, deliver results.

Watch if you are:

• A solution provider trying to turn pilots into deployments that actually change operations
• A real estate/FM leader stuck in dashboard purgatory
• Anyone tasked with proving measurable, repeatable outcomes from smart-building tech across multiple sites

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In this market-update episode of The Down Low with Joe, Joe Aamidor and co-host Lewis bring on Elizabeth Redmond (R-Zero) to unpack the headlines reshaping proptech, HVAC/services, and compliance in NYC and beyond.

🔎 Topics Covered:

• AirThings’ strategy reset and what it signals about post-RTO demand
• Legence’s IPO: why roll-up MEP + data centers ≠ “energy transition” (and why it still works)
• OEM cloud stacks (Forge, OpenBlue, EcoStruxure…) and the push to proactive operations
• R-Zero’s new LL97 tool: turning public filings (LL84/LL33) + EUI into NOI and asset-value levers
• Occupancy-based HVAC control vs fixed schedules—where the real kWh come from
• The reporting burden (NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, SF) and how it delays action
• The “A++” office premium: why bad real estate is dying, not real estate
• Funding flurry: PassiveLogic’s latest round (with JCI in the mix) and why “product-first” is a bet
• Multi-site retail & grocery heat up: EnTouch, GridPoint, 75F, Phoenix/Hussmann and small-commercial controls

💡 Prediction: Data-center demand and NYC compliance will pull capital toward service-led, software-enabled ops—where uptime, labor productivity, and penalty avoidance beat “apps for apps’ sake.”

📍 If you live at the intersection of real estate, HVAC/services, climate tech, or multi-site ops, this one’s a crisp download on where value is actually accruing—and what to build or buy next.

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