Global Corporate Survey 2020: Smart Building Technology Budgets, Priorities & Preferences

This report helps real estate and facility directors and heads benchmark their firms’ smart building technology strategies, investment plans and priorities over the next 12 months. It also aids smart building product vendors and service providers align their business and product plans with market demand and emerging areas of interest. The data was gathered via 250 telephone interviews conducted with executives at firms from 18 industries and most major economies from July to September 2020. The survey highlights that COVID-19 is driving firms to reprioritize their facilities management strategies with talent retention and employee safety new focal areas. In the near-term firms are planning targeted new investments in remote collaboration, employee health monitoring technology and IoT-enabled space monitoring. Over the next two years, digital twin simulations and edge computing will continue to garner interest amongst executives.