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We are constantly driving innovation and technical excellence, read below our latest thinking from across our organisation.
As an industry there is a rise in projects and builds, striving to achieve WELL Gold and Platinum scores. WELL Precertification proposes features that will ultimately be reviewed once buildings are completed and in use, to later be WELL Certified. Through the backing of scientific research, the standard looks to improve the health and well-being occupants can obtain from the internal environment of a building.
Buildings are becoming more intelligent, more sustainable and more energy efficient. Smart buildings require less occupant intervention, with the technology and systems installed being adaptive and self-managed (Apanavičienė & Shahrabani, 2023). Systems are therefore needing to be integrated and communicative with one another, for the next generation of buildings to be smart–enabled.
Over Christmas our Sales Director sent me a white paper released through Cambridge University Press. The paper itself was titled “Machine Learning for Smart and Energy-Efficient Buildings”. It was an interesting read and detailed how machine learning (ML) could be used to make buildings more efficient.
There is a wealth of smart building consultancy services dealing with all types of situations from blue sky thinking right down to specific use cases and user journeys. A lot of thought is often given to the design stage of a smart building project, but it’s important to talk and inform the client about the crucial delivery stage. We call it, the implementation phase of a smart building.
On average employees spend 40 hours a week within their working environment, it is therefore our role at Lloret, to ensure the indoor air quality doesn’t negate the health and overall productivity of occupants in buildings we install and maintain systems within.
Our first intake of apprentices was back in September 2024, one of those apprentices was Elia. We asked him to reflect on his experience so far, carry on reading as he shares his perspective of what it’s been like to be a Lloret apprentice.