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During the recent EcoCity Revolution event here, Alistair Schneider, the CEO of Innouvo, interviewed Chris Sowa, a Global Vice President at Schneider Electric focused on innovation, new ventures, and strategy in the Energy Management Software business. The focus on this discussion is how we can drive a true EcoCity Revolution through improved sustainability and green innovation enabled by digitization. This is Part II of III of a EcoCity Revolution perspective.
Schneider:
What are the hurdles to a true EcoCity revolution and how can we get past them to achieve our desired end state?
Sowa:
We can’t do things the same way. When it comes to change, people are as always where the biggest opportunities and the obstacles are found. This efficient building lifecycle process that I outlined is still a vision in most places. We are enabling it one piece at a time, not only by ourselves, but with key partners. At Schneider, we want to be a part of the community of change helping to digitize buildings and increase efficiency, that is my focus. People throughout the construction life cycle are going to be using digital solutions much more than we do today. And I don’t mean just PDF files being passed by email. We want to move past PDF, to true dynamic digital collaboration across the construction lifecycle.