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Smart Buildings Center

Energy Efficiency Innovation Center, Tool Library & Data Visualization

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    • Energy Benchmarking Helpdesk & Resources
    • K-12 Ventilation & Indoor Air Quality Resources
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Resources

What is a Smart Building?

In the simplest terms, a smart building is a building that leverages data and technology to optimize building operations and resources. At the Smart Buildings Center, we envision a Spectrum of Smart, starting on one end with simply benchmarking your building to gain understanding of energy performance to the other end where you have a highly sophisticated building with interconnected systems that gather and analyze data in real-time to optimize energy usage, maintenance, security, comfort or other building owner/manager goals.

How is the Smart Buildings Center Helping?

The mission of the Smart Buildings Center is to accelerate the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings practices and technologies through education and demonstration. This includes supporting building owners in benchmarking, providing technical assistance to support compliance with local building performance standards, offering training to building operators in the smart and efficient management of a building, hosting technical webinars to broaden industry expertise, providing a free library of building diagnostic tools, providing on demand trainings via our YouTube Channel, and hosting an annual Smart Buildings Exchange Conference. Follow the links below to learn more about these resources.

  • Benchmarking Help Desk
  • Clean Buildings Help Desk
  • K12 Indoor Air Quality Resources
  • Building Operator Certification Program
  • SBC Technical Webinar Series
  • Tool Lending Library
  • SBC YouTube
  • SBX Conference

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Registration Now Open for Qualified Energy Manager Certification

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Registration Open for Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2025!

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May 9, 2025

BOC Operator of the Year 2025 Nominations are Open!

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206-538-0832

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

(206) 624-7570

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Smart Buildings Center is a project collaboration with Building Potential

           

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