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Brick Schema and RealEstateCore announce a major harmonization effort between two smart building metadata standards

Cooperation between leading industry standards supercharges the digital transformation of the real estate and smart building industry

Today the Brick Consortium and RealEstateCore announce the two groups are making it easier to create rich semantic models of smart buildings and real estate portfolios. Currently, at-scale digital transformation in the real estate industry, within and across organizational boundaries, is challenging because of the number of competing smart building metadata standards. These standards often have significant overlap in features, but are not directly compatible, making it difficult for building stakeholders to exchange data and application developers to be able to fully support all building systems.

What do I get as a member?

RealEstateCore is published under an MIT open-source license and BSD license, which means that RealEstateCore is free to use for anyone.

As a member, you get the opportunity to be part of a technical committee and work actively within your specific domain of the development of RealEstateCore.

As a member, you support the development of RealEstateCore and get the right to use the RealEstateCore membership logo in your public communication.

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Small <€10,000,000  €1,000
Large ≥€10,000,000 €2,000

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ProptechOS is a platform that collects data, services proptech apps, and enables the development of future apps.

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Vasakronan is Sweden’s leading property company with a portfolio comprising 168 properties with a total area of 2.4 million square meters. Their vision is to create future-proof cities for everyone where people and companies thrive.

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Akademiska Hus is one of Sweden’s largest property companies. In collaboration with universities and colleges, they aim to reinforce Sweden as a nation of knowledge.

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For 110 years, YIT Oy have been creating better living environments for their customers: functional homes for sustainable living, future-proof public and commercial buildings and infrastructure for smoother flow of people, businesses and society.

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Skanska is one of the largest Swedish construction companies with thousands of projects every year. They build for a better society and aim to be a leader in sustainable solutions, quality, safety and ethics.

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Nuuka is a building performance software company. They diagnose and optimize building systems and HVAC with AI. To this day, Nuuka has connected buildings with more than 8 million square meters in 10 different countries, including the greenest building in the world (The Edge in Amsterdam)

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Fastighetsägarna can contribute to simplifying and standardizing the digitalization of their members and the industry as a whole. An example of this is a technology competition for a new generation of energy monitoring tools made possible through RealEstateCore and where the reference group represents a large part of the Swedish property owner community.

Visit: Fastighetsägarna

Atrius is a software product brand that enables organizations to optimize energy consumption, manage physical assets, and deliver personal, meaningful experiences within their commercial spaces. Atrius software gathers, unlocks, and transforms the raw data that powers a broad range of solutions.

Atrius products include development kits (SDKs), APIs, and cloud applications that directly integrate with specific hardware and building management applications to relay critical endpoint data to the cloud.

Their product differentiator is the ability to unlock critical performance data by leveraging customers’ existing industry-leading, onsite equipment. Atrius solutions deliver consistent, goal-oriented experiences and enable incredible scalability, speed, and agility to solve business challenges. Atrius is part of the Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) portfolio.

Visit Acuity Brands, Atrius: https://atrius.com/

Hufvudstaden provides office and retailing premises in prime locations in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The Company was founded in 1915 and is today one of Sweden’s largest listed property companies and one of the strongest brands in the country in the property sector.

Visit: https://hufvudstaden.se/en

ClimaCheck provides solutions for increasing energy efficiency to lower your energy costs with an award-winning solution. Their proven solutions enable energy optimization in air conditioning, refrigeration, and heat pump systems, which leads to 10-30% energy savings while also contributing to increased plant reliability, reduced equipment wear, and lower operating costs. The company was founded in 2004, but it is based on a method that was patented in 1986. ClimaCheck has grown into a global clean-tech company that has analyzed thousands of systems for customers worldwide.

Visit: https://home.climacheck.com

Serenity was founded in 2018 and has since 2019 developed its own platform for digital properties. Through the platform, Serenity offers the property owner a comprehensive solution with targeted apps for offices and homes and a horizontal platform that can handle all forms of open technology for smart property.

Visit: https://srenity.se

About the consortium

RealEstateCore is a non-profit organisation registered in Sweden (organisation number: 802527-5481) by real estate owners, software houses, and research institutions as the founders and main sponsors of the RealEstateCore project.

The purpose of the consortium is to create an environment for cooperation and sharing of knowledge between property owners and partners, to prioritize and organize development of shared ontology features and associated technology/software, and to be a speaking partner for public and private sector ontology and linked data initiatives within the real estate and construction industries.

Historical development of RealEstateCore

Board Members

The board consists of the six founders that oversee the development of the RealEstateCore project. The board assigns the Technical committee.

The boards meets four times per year.

Name Organisation Title/Function
Joakim Eriksson Rise AB Director Connected Intelligence
Karl Hammar (co-opted) Microsoft Senior Technical PM
Leif Sundbom Akademiska Hus AB CIO
Anna Mellqvist Willhem AB CIO
Sören Sandell Vasakronan AB CIO
Erik Wallin (Chairman) Idun Real Estate Solutions AB CEO

Technical commitee

The technical committee is responsible for development and maintenance of the ontology and supporting tools and documentation.

The technical committee manages the roadmap and proposes major changes to the board.

The technical committee creates and supervises sub-committees that works with specific domains.

Name Organisation Title/Function
Joakim Eriksson Rise AB Director Connected Intelligence
Karl Hammar  Microsoft Senior Technical PM
Peter Hartlev (Chairman) Cervum AB CEO
Per Karlberg Idun Real Estate Solutions AB CEO
Christopher Bupp Acuity Brands, Atrius Senior Director