AI in buildings is having its breakout moment.
But most of what we see today is still surface-level. Chatbots on top of legacy systems. Optimisers tweaking setpoints. Dashboards that look new, but run on the same foundations we’ve had for decades.
In this episode, Lewis and Joe sit down with Troy Harvey, Co-Founder & CEO of PassiveLogic, to unpack a very different view of the future: fully autonomous buildings powered by actionable AI, generative control models, and real-time digital twins that understand and operate the built environment end-to-end.
Troy breaks down why fragmentation is the industry’s core blocker, why language models aren’t the future, and why incumbents have struggled to innovate for nearly 20 years. We explore how autonomy changes the economics of buildings, the role of blue-collar workers in driving adoption, and why the next 100 years of building technology won’t look anything like the last.
If you care about smart buildings, controls, AI, or the future of building operations, this is one of the most important conversations you’ll hear this year.
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