SAN DIEGO—Smart-building wellness programs are about employeeand tenant comfort, which leads to increased productivity and moreprofitability for everyone, panelists on Realcomm's Smart BuildingWellness webinar told attendees Tuesday. The webinardemonstrated how technology plays a major role in healthyintelligent buildings and best practices for a wellnessprogram.

Moderator Brenna Walraven, president & CEO ofCorporate Sustainability Strategies, said we'rereally only at the beginning of a massive shift in the CREindustry, and we're one of the last industries to be fullydisrupted by technology. She explained that the evolution of smartbuildings and wellness began with the 1976 outbreak ofLegionnaire's disease at Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia,which led to I-BEAM—a guidance tool for indoor air-quality issues.This evolved into the development of USGBC andLEED certification. She pointed out that wecould use smart building solutions to avoid Legionnaire's diseaseoutbreaks like the one in November at Disneyland,which created the need for two coolers to be shut down at thepark.