Why Smart Buildings Are Becoming Climate Infrastructure ft. Lauren Scott

31.5°C indoors. No A/C in sight. That's the moment that changed how host Lauren Scott thinks about her own industry.Thirteen years into building automation, Lauren always led with the environmental case — less energy, less grid strain, fewer emissions. Comfort was always the quieter argument. Then a near-record heatwave in Ireland, a country where fewer than 1 in 10 homes have air conditioning, made the case for her: as extreme heat reaches places never built for it, comfort stops being a want and becomes a need — and smart, energy-efficient HVAC controls, sensors and software are exactly how buildings meet it.In this solo episode, Lauren breaks down the realization, the numbers behind it, and why the environmental and human-comfort cases just became one.Message us your thoughts!