"You feel like you're tackling an impossible problem because you're looking at such a broad set of solutions or in our case, now we're looking at such a broad set of manufacturers, and so many devices in our building, and every building is different. How can you ever address that?

We'll just address everything and then move forward with whomever is willing to move forward with you. It could be at a regional level or a certain manufacturer who understands what you want to accomplish, they totally buy into it, and they move forward.

Some others, not so much. You keep them up to date, but you don't hold back, you just move forward with whomever is willing to move forward. So that absolutely applies with the Building Operating System solution that we have today and our involvment with manufacturers and within Google as well.

We'll see how different regions move at different speeds, different construction teams move at different speeds, different facilities operation teams embrace the solution more than others. We're large enough that we always find someone who is interested.”
—Sabine Lam

 My Highlights

• How Sabine and Google helped change the building materials supply chain and how that is happening in building technology now (5:35)
• The Google BOS mission statement (14:38)
• The three specific goals of the BOS program and how it's being driven by cyber security (27:44)
• Sabine's take on IT vs. OT. Hint: it's all on the IT network. (31:37)
• The role of the MSI and contractors in setting up the BOS and our frustration with data mapping (40:15)

 

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