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Lachlan MacQuarrie Lachlan MacQuarrie is Vice President
of Real Estate Management for Oxford
Oxford Properties Group Properties Group, a global real estate
investment, development and management
organization. With more than 16 years of real
estate experience, he provides critical insights
on program development, risk management,
stakeholder relations and innovation. He is
responsible for improving the operations
side of Oxford’s Canadian business including
sustainability, energy management, national
procurement, security and life safety, as well
as Oxford’s SMART & Connected technology
strategy.

SMART Highlights of 2015
At Oxford, we believe in the importance of
every interaction, every day. This approach
extends to our vision for the deployment
and use of SMART technology. By SMART,
I’m referring to the integration of building
technology, control systems and people.
These systems may include building
automation, life safety, Telco, user facilities,
and property management systems. We have
committed to building a strong foundation
for today and tomorrow, and 2015 was a
transformative year in terms of establishing
that foundation across our office and retail
portfolios.

Across our office portfolio, we performed
site audit tool assessments of core systems to
quantify their stage of readiness to fully de-
ploy base building network (BBN) and SMART
systems. The quantity and quality of available
data enables a very thoughtful program.

Putting the best systems in place only
works when the people operating our assets
are given the training and tools they need
to make the most of those systems. Oxford
undertook a variety of training initiatives on
SMART through 2015, including a series of
asset level meetings focused on an interactive
tool we developed that helps guide site teams
to the areas of focus most relevant to their
team and physical asset. We also developed a
catalog of use cases to identify how we might
deploy SMART in existing buildings and new
construction projects, to ensure we future
proof our investments over and above the
inclusion of basic converged digital BBN.

We began key initiatives around system
visualization and fault detection that are fun-
damental to unlocking operating efficiencies,
labor productivity and user experiences. We

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