Join us for the Smart Buildings Exchange 2026!

Smart Buildings Center

Energy Efficiency Innovation Center, Tool Library & Data Visualization

This Friday: Tool Time Lunch and Learn: Identifying Opportunities for Operational Improvement

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Join us on October 30th for a Lunch and Learn event at the Smart Buildings Center at Pacific Tower! We’ll be talking about diagnostic and monitoring tools including acoustic imagers, loggers, thermal cameras and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to get hands-on with the tools themselves. This opportunity is brought to you at minimal cost thanks to generous contribution from Seattle City Light, so don’t miss out! You can register for the IFMA Member Rate at: Oct 30, 2026 IFMA Lunch & Learn: Tool Time

Don’t miss these SBX Keynotes & Networking Opportunities!

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We’re excited to have Perry England (MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions) provide the SBX Day 2 Welcome Remarks followed by an Opening Keynote on “Accelerating Performance at the Speed of Innovation” by Megan Owen (McKinstry). Joseph Aamidor (Aamidor Consulting) will deliver the Lunch Keynote on “Smart Buildings in a Chaotic World” and Dawn Lindell (Former Seattle City Light CEO) will deliver a forward-looking Closing Keynote on “What Will It Take to Reach Scale?”

Discounts are available for SBX sponsors, Building Potential members, and BOC students and grads. Please reach out to Britton Rife if you need a discount code.

Networking Opportunities

Don’t miss the opportunity to network with SBX attendees from the following companies/organizations, including our SBX sponsors who are looking for new hires to join their teams!

47N Energy
Aamidor Consulting
Alco Investment Company
Allumia
Ambeince Corp.
ATS Automation
Auburn School District
Bonneville Power Administration
CBRE
City of Bellevue
City of Lynnwood
City of Seattle
Clean Energy Transition Institute
Climate-Aligned Law
CopperTree Analytics
Custom Energy
CWD Group Inc
DB Engineering
Dorse & Company
DPR Construction
E3
Ecoreal
Ecotope
EEI
Eide Bailly
El Centro de la Raza
Ellensburg School District
Energy 350
Hargis Engineers
ICF
Inland Power and Light Company
INTEGRA
Integra Testing WA
Kent School District
Kidder Mathews
King County
Lakewood School District
Lattice Energy Works
Left Coast Facilities Consulting
LONG Building Technologies
lumenomics
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions
McKinstry
MetroNational
Microsoft
Model Solutions
Multicare
National Nordic Museum
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Northwest Partners LLC
O’Brien360
Overcast Innovations
Ovus Partners 360
PacifiCorp
Perform Properties
Pierce College
Pierce County Department of Facilities Management
Pilotlight
Port of Seattle
PSR Mechanical
Puget Sound Energy
Radius Data Centers
RDH Building Science
Rubicon Investments Inc.
Sazan Group, Inc.
Seattle City Light
Seattle Housing Authority
Seattle Public Schools
Siemens
SMB Climate
Snohomish County
South Seattle College Sustainable Building Science Technology
SSA Marine
Tacoma Power
The Boeing Company
The JPI Group
Touchstone IQ
Trane
TRC
UMC
Unico
University of Washington
Velocity Building Technical Services
Washington Builds
Washington State Department of Commerce
Washington State Department of Enterprise Services
Washington State Military Department
Waterman Consulting
Windsor Engineers

SBX Day 2 Highlights

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Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2026 is coming up soon and we wanted to share some highlights for Day 2!

Jonathan Heller (Ecotope) will moderate a cross-sector conversation between Ian Brown (Seattle Public Schools), Lisa Dulude (University of Washington), and Tearle Whitson (MetroNational) focused on building owner needs and how we can speed up the changes in existing buildings that are needed to support the clean energy transition.

Also on SBX Day 2, Robby Martin (ATS Automation) will moderate a discussion between Kurtis Anderson (Kent School District), Stephanie Leisle (Pierce County Facilities Management), and Matt Wiley (RadiusDC) focused on how the industry can move from custom smart building projects to repeatable, scalable solutions.

Register now to join us on November 9th & 10th!

Discounts are available for SBX sponsors, Building Potential members, and BOC students and grads. Please reach out to Britton Rife if you need a discount code.

10/30 Tool Time Lunch and Learn: Identifying Opportunities for Operational Improvement

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Join us on October 30th for a Lunch and Learn event at the Smart Buildings Center at Pacific Tower! We’ll be talking about diagnostic and monitoring tools including acoustic imagers, loggers, thermal cameras and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to get hands-on with the tools themselves. This opportunity is brought to you at minimal cost thanks to generous contribution from Seattle City Light, so don’t miss out! You can register for the IFMA Member Rate at: Oct 30, 2026 IFMA Lunch & Learn: Tool Time

SBX 2026 Keynote Announcement & Hotel Room Block

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We’re excited to announce our SBX Day 2 Closing Keynote “What Will It Take to Reach Scale?”

Dawn Lindell, former CEO of Seattle City Light, will deliver a forward-looking closing keynote focused on where we should go from here and what it will take to truly accelerate the industry. Dawn has 20 years of utility experience in electric distribution and transmission, water, wastewater, and gas. Before her time at City Light, Dawn served as the General Manager at Burbank Water and Power, setting strategic direction and delivering water, power, and business high-speed internet to the media capital of the world. She has experience leading two federal multi-state regional transmission utilities, serving as a transformational Chief Information Officer at both municipal and federal utilities, and leading customer service at a large municipal utility to top-quartile J.D. Power customer service performance. Dawn has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in business administration, with a focus on information technology, from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Register now to join us at the event on November 9th & 10th!


Hotel Room Block – reservation deadline 10/19

We secured a limited number of rooms at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront across from the Bell Harbor International Conference Center where SBX will be held for $239/night plus tax. The deadline for booking is Monday, October 19th. You can use the link below to book a room for Nov 9-10th, and if you’d like to add Nov 8th or 11th to your reservation, please email Ethan Vollers with your confirmation # and desired dates of stay.

Book a room here

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SBX 2026 is where the Pacific Northwest’s smart buildings community comes together to do the hard work of figuring out what’s next. Whether you join us as an attendee, a speaker, or a sponsor, we hope to see you there.

Questions? Reach us at [email protected]

More information: www.sbxconference.org

Q3 Quarterly Recap

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SBX ‘26

SBX Registration is OPEN – Smart Buildings Exchange Nov 9-10 2026 register today and use this link to direct your colleagues to the registration site.

We’re excited to announce our agenda for this year’s 2-day show. You can find all the details on our agenda page at the official website here.

You also won’t want to miss out on SBX+, our year-round SBX webinar series that brings the exchange to your device with topics that dive into real world applications of technologies and solutions. All webinar recordings are available now with the final webinar taking place later this week on the 16th. Get all the details or register here: SBX Plus Virtual Series

Building Operator Certification – Fall & Winter Courses

Registration is now open for our Fall & Winter BOC courses. Building Operator CertificationÂŽ (BOC) is the leading training and credentialing program for Operations & Maintenance and energy management professionals looking to make their buildings more comfortable, efficient and environmentally friendly, all while reducing energy bill costs. Find training here. Or watch an our informational webcast to see what BOC training can do for you (and your building)! Come with questions, leave with answers. Watch On Demand Here.

Behind the Benchmarking Help Desk

Are you familiar with the help desk? Every year, Seattle building owners and property managers turn to one place when they have questions about energy benchmarking: the Smart Buildings Center’s Benchmarking Help Desk. Behind that resource are two Building Potential staff members, Jessica Cherry and Shino Severson, who provide the technical assistance that keeps building owners on track with the City of Seattle’s Energy Benchmarking ordinance.

Meet the team that’s helping you Benchmark your buildings with our meet the staff post here.

Operator of the Year 2026

Each year, BOC requests nominations for people working to improve the energy efficiency of their work environment using skills they learned in the BOC program. We received many impressive 2026 nominations detailing how methods learned in BOC classes are helping people make improvements in their work environments, but this year Michael’s work stood out among the other candidates.

Meet our Operator of the Year, Michael Durham, and hear more about his story and the work he’s put in to meet his buildings energy efficiency needs in this post from the Smart Buildings Center. And remember, we’ll be looking for nominees for 2027 before long!

Tool Lending Library

The TLL continues to offer a wide array of tools to service professionals in Washington and Oregon. You can always find an updated list of tools here along with instructions on how to request a tool and videos and guides for tool use and care.

A New Event Calendar and Call for Shared Content

We are always looking for new posts, listings, news and content to share on our blogs and newsletters. Please reach out to us using this form with any content you would like to see shared on TheBOC.info, SmartBuildingsCenter.org, or BuildingPotential.org. We’d love to hear from you and help get the word out!

Contact Us

Smart Buildings Center
Pacific Tower
1200 12th Ave. S., Suite 110
Seattle, WA 98144

206-538-0832

[email protected]

Smart Buildings Center is a project collaboration with Building Potential