Welcome to Issue 2 of The Building Performance Series. In our first issue we set out what building performance means and why it has become a board-level commercial issue.

This month we go a layer deeper into one of the fastest- moving parts of that story: the technology now available to monitor, understand, and optimise a building's performance in real time.

AI-enabled building management has moved from a niche interest for trophy assets to a practical, accessible option for standard commercial stock. This issue asks the question landlords, facilities managers and managing agents are increasingly asking themselves: is now the time to move to AI-supported building management, and if so, where do you start?

We look at the case for acting now, the practical challenges of getting there, share Mike's guide to commissioning your first building performance review and walk through the results from our own myBEMS deployment at Twenty Chapel Street.