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Facebook’s MPK 21 building in Menlo Park. Image courtesy of Facebook<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

When designing a smart building, the user experience is paramount. That\u2019s the philosophy of Zorba Manolopoulos, global program manager in charge of Smart Campuses at Facebook, whose group is tasked with innovating and problem-solving for the social media giant\u2019s worldwide property portfolio of about 80 buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur (strategy) starts with the employee experience, or occupant experience for that matter<\/em>\u2014what they want to do, what they want to feel, all the experiences that they want to have<\/em>\u2014that\u2019s where we start. Then we shape the services to meet those goals,\u201d<\/em> Manolopoulos commented at this year\u2019s Realcomm event in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not really looking at smart buildings as a way to run a building better or more efficiently,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that his group aims to provide sustainability if that\u2019s what users demand.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a panel discussion during the annual commercial real estate technology conference, Manolopoulos explained how his team considers a day in the life of a typical building user as Facebook scrambles to accommodate its rapidly growing staff\u2014in the past year and a half, the company has doubled in size.<\/p>\n

Take eating lunch, for example. \u201cThe first step in eating lunch is, you actually plan to eat lunch.\u201d<\/em> That gives rise to thorny questions about food options, dining companions, and the logistics of getting there and back. Inevitably, part of the solution involves an app.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou started with the experience first and then let the tech provide the experience,\u201d<\/em> noted Manolopoulos.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Facebook preleased an entire 803,000-square-foot office campus<\/a> for its virtual realty arm Oculus in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame, Calif.<\/p>\n

Issues of energy and cost<\/h2>\n
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Zorba Manolopoulos (center) speaking at Realcomm<\/p><\/div>\n

Kathy Farrington brings a slightly different focus to her work as technical program manager at Google, which has hundreds of buildings in its portfolio. \u201cUser experience is definitely key, but obviously we really care about sustainability as well, and driving down not necessarily costs as much as energy use and the impact on the environment,\u201d<\/em> which includes green materials and other factors beyond energy use, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace utilization is also really important,\u201d<\/em> she added. Farrington emphasized that companies need to prioritize. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a functional BMS (building management system) or a functional lighting control system, you\u2019ve got to solve that first.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For Jared Summers, who serves as data foundation manager at ExxonMobil, applying digital technologies to the firm\u2019s global portfolio of thousands of properties involves a more cost-conscious approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience is important, and we design for that,\u201d<\/em> Summers noted in the panel. \u201cHowever, the story goes around the operational efficiency and the savings, because then that gets it past management. We are in a fundamentally different industry than tech.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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