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No more locked data, choices, value, or experiences in buildings.

The Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation (C4SB) is the global community dedicated to creating, collecting, and sharing open technology, data, and standards to solve common challenges and unlock higher value, choices, and opportunities for building owners, operators, occupiers, and vendors.

Why C4SB?

C4SB provides an independent community to build open digital resources that transform the lifecycle of buildings.

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Projects

C4SB Foundation projects are helping transform how buildings and what happens inside them are digitally connected over their entire lifecycle, accelerating delivery of better experiences, more efficient operations, and higher value.

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The Semantic Buildings project explores and tests the integration of different open-source semantic models to create useful knowledge for improved building design and operation.

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The Asset Leadership Standard project helps establish the “Why?” Why is it beneficial for top leaders to have smart assets talk with each other and outside markets such as the energy grid?

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The Interoperable Building Box (IBB) project is developing an open digital architecture that enables cloud-native, on-premises data exchange between applications.

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The Managed BACnet project is addressing technology and implementation challenges for deploying BACnet into cloud-native buildings.

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Transforming Digital Management of Buildings

Solutions built on the open standards and open source components championed by the C4SB community are delivering higher value, more efficient operations, and a better experience to real buildings today.

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From coder to creatives, join our global community and advance C4SB open building projects.

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