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Realcomm | IBcon 2020 Digie Award Finalists Announced

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Realcomm | IBcon has been presenting the Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation "Digie" Awards since 1999 to recognize outstanding companies, real estate projects, technologies and the next generation of smart, connected, high-performance, intelligent building systems. The Digies are also awarded to the individuals who have gone "above and beyond" to positively impact our industry and to the innovators who are improving our buildings, portfolios and cities through the application of technology, automation and innovation.

Today, we are living in unprecedented times. For the commercial and corporate real estate industry, COVID-19 created a new set of unique challenges ranging from developing work at home strategies to making sure buildings are performing at the most optimum, healthy levels. As building owners and tenants respond to the pandemic, innovative solutions are required for safe re-occupancy and productive work environments. In a very short amount of time, a multitude of technologies focused on making buildings as COVID safe as possible have quickly entered the market.


In 2020, we will also recognize those who are: leading the charge on COVID-19 strategic and transformational technologies, creating a more efficient, effective and adaptive industry and shaping the future of smart buildings.


This year’s Realcomm Digie Award categories are:

Best Use of Automation

This award is given to those companies in the following categories who have applied an extraordinary level of automation, technology and innovation to their business processes.

  • Commercial Services
  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Corporate Real Estate
  • Investment Management
  • Property/Facility Management
  • Retail
  • Best Tech Innovation Commercial | Corporate Real Estate

    This award will be given to a company who has introduced a new product to the market that strives to re-engineer our very manual and disparate industry through the creation of innovative automation solutions.


    Realcomm Julie Devine Digital Impact Award

    It takes vision, determination, tenacity and commitment to keep this industry moving in the right direction. This award is designed to acknowledge those individuals who saw things ahead of their associates, had the courage to leave the mainstream and the tenacity to keep standing up after many failed attempts.


    Lifetime Achievement Award

    To celebrate 20 years in 2018, Realcomm created this award to acknowledge the visionaries in our community. The criteria are: 1) Have a career span of focused on real estate, technology or real estate technology; 2) Demonstrated a clear VISION on how technology would strategically impact the industry; 3) Consistently SHARED their time and experience with the community; 4) Willingness to take significant RISKS in the name of innovation; and 5) Made a definite positive IMPACT to the advancement of the commercial and corporate real estate industry.


    This year's IBcon Digie Award categories are:

    Most Intelligent Building Projects

    This award will go to those extraordinary examples of buildings, projects and communities that best demonstrate smart, connected, high performance intelligent building concepts in the following categories:

  • City | State
  • Corporate HQ
  • COVID Tech
  • Higher Education
  • Industrial
  • Mixed-Use Projects
  • Multifamily | Residential
  • Office Building
  • Office Portfolio
  • Retail
  • Specialty
  • Best Tech Innovation

    This award will recognize one of the most innovative new ideas/technologies/products/ services for the smart, connected, high performance, intelligent building marketplace in each of the following categories:

  • Intelligent Buildings
  • Telepresence
  • LED Immersive Experience
  • COVID Tech
  • IBcon Julie Devine Digital Impact Award

    It takes vision, determination, tenacity and commitment to keep this industry moving in the right direction. This award is designed to acknowledge those individuals who saw things ahead of their associates, had the courage to leave the mainstream and the tenacity to keep standing up after many failed attempts.


    Following are the 2020 Realcomm Digie Award finalists:

    BEST USE OF AUTOMATION

    Property | Facility Management

    1. Arcadia Management

    2. W. Wright & Company

    3. AMP Capital


    Commercial Services

    1. CBRE

    2. JLL

    3. Cushman & Wakefield


    Commercial Real Estate

    1. Dexus

    2. Carr Properties

    3. Brookfield


    Retail

    1. Macerich

    2. Oxford Properties

    3. Kimco Realty


    Corporate Real Estate

    1. Google

    2. Microsoft

    3. Amazon


    Investment Management

    1. Invesco

    2. OA Development

    3. Bell Partners


    BEST TECH INNOVATION COMMERCIAL | CORPORATE REAL ESTATE

    1. Docuphase

    2. Nexus Payables

    3. Avvir


    JULIE DEVINE DIGITAL IMPACT AWARD

    Two awards will be given in this category

    1. Cheryl Gray

    2. Mark Hansen

    3. Annette Prater

    4. Cecilia Li

    5. Rob Teel

    6. Ilan Zachar


    REALCOMM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

    Winner to be announced at the awards ceremony


    Following are the 2020 IBcon Digie Award finalists:

    MOST INTELLIGENT BUILDING PROJECT

    Office Building

    1. GPO Exchange

    2. Wesley Place

    3. One Manhattan


    Office Portfolio

    1. Irvine Company

    2. AMP Capital

    3. Kilroy Realty


    Corporate Headquarters

    1. Ford Dearborn Campus

    2. Intel PTK1 Israel

    3. Microsoft Redmond Campus


    Retail

    1. Amazon Go

    2. Carvana

    3. COEX Intercontinental Mall


    Specialty

    1. SoFi Stadium – Los Angeles

    2. The Sinclair, Autograph Collection – Ft. Worth

    3. Museum of the Future – Dubai


    Industrial

    1. Prologis

    2. Amazon

    3. CenterPoint


    Multifamily Residential

    1. Avenir

    2. The Stanwix

    3. Crescent Heights NEMA


    Best Tech Innovation COVID-19

    1. RXR Realty – 75 Rockefeller Plaza

    2. Granite Properties Portfolio

    3. Carr Properties – 1615 L. Street NW


    Mixed Use Project

    1. Water Street Tampa

    2. Manhattan West

    3. Farley Station


    Higher Education Campus

    1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    2. Notre Dame

    3. Georgia Tech


    City | State

    1. Singapore

    2. Taiwan

    3. Seoul, South Korea


    BEST TECH INNOVATION

    Telepresence

    1. EventWorks 4D

    2. ARHT Media

    3. Vntana


    LED Immersive Experience

    1. Standardvision

    2. D'Strict

    3. Pixelflex


    Intelligent Buildings

    1. Acuity – ECLYPSE Connected Thermostat

    2. Density – People Counting

    3. Enertiv – Asset Intelligence


    COVID Tech

    1. GallatinAir IMOD

    2. LuminUltra GeneCount

    3. SYMPTOMSense


    JULIE DEVINE DIGITAL IMPACT AWARD

    Two awards will be given in this category

    1. Anto Budjiardjo

    2. Emmanuel Daniel

    3. Steve Lefkowitz

    4. Ed Merwin

    5. Ken Sinclair

    6. Donny Walker


    The Digie Awards will be held on Oct. 28 at the Gaylord Rockies at 7pm MT. The awards ceremony will also be streamed live at our website. Please join us and congratulate the finalists and the winners for 2020!

    Realcomm Staff
    Realcomm Conference Group LLC is the leading research and educational institution that produces annual conferences and expositions on technology, automated business solutions and intelligent buildings strategies for executives in commercial, corporate, government and institutional real estate. Realcomm was founded in 1999 with the goal of bringing industry leaders together each year to discuss, demonstrate and debate the latest innovations that impact the industry.

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