Rudin Creates New Smart Building Platform

John Gilbert, EVP and COO at Rudin Management

NEW YORK CITY—The Rudin Family is launching today the “Nantum” smart building platform that it says “collaboratively and organically” integrates all building systems into one cockpit style control plan. One of New York city’s largest private owners, operators and developers, the Rudin Family reports it has created a new technology company—Prescriptive Data—that is charged with marketing the new platform that is powered by MongoDB. The new platform will be officially launched today at the Realcomm IBCon conference (June 21-24)  in San Jose CA. “As owners, our job is to focus on making our residents, our occupants and our commercial office tenants as comfortable as they possibly can by utilizing the least amount of energy possible,” says John Gilbert, EVP and COO at Rudin Management. “Nantum allows our properties to have continuous, real-time commissioning, thus allowing our customers to receive the highest possible levels of service all while saving money and electricity. We are extremely excited by the prospects of this new system and will be working with our partners to market this system to other property owners and tenants.” The system offers real time commissioning 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, Rudin officials state.  Designed to function as the “brain” of a property, Nantum utilizes cloud technology to gather building data in real-time. It collects information about building occupancy, electric demand, outside weather and other factors to maintain optimal indoor temperatures and the most efficient use of energy onto a single screen. Rudin is using Nantum in 17 of its New York City buildings, including 15 commercial buildings and two residential towers, totaling approximately 10 million square feet. Rudin calculates that the system is currently providing energy savings of between 10% and 13% in its portfolio, ranging from 40 to 50 cents per square foot depending on the number of hours the building operates on an annual basis. Back in May, Rudin and partner Boston Properties broke ground on a major technology-oriented project— Dock 72 , a 675,000 square-foot commercial development that is being built to cater to the rapidly emerging tech and creative industries in Brooklyn.