Our Smartest Building

Congrats to Pennzoil Place, which was named the most intelligent office building project in IBcon/Realcomm’s CRE digital innovation awards. The 1.4M SF, Class-A high-rise is owned by Metropolis Investment Holdings and uses Cisco’s Internet of Everything to connect all the building systems. The program has helped Transwestern’s management team lower energy costs by 21% from ’11 to ’12 and another 11% in the first eight months of 2013. That’s largely thanks to automating temperature control processes and allowing building engineers to monitor systems remotely from tablets/laptops.

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