GRIMSBY, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On Tuesday, September 20^th, 2022 The Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA) was proud to celebrate Ontario’s best of the best in residential construction at their 30^th annual Awards of Distinction. DeSantis Homes proved their ability to perform at the highest level within the industry by taking home three prestigious awards: Best Mid-High Rise Marketing Campaign, Most Outstanding Mid-High Rise Building, and the Prestige Award of Distinction – Project of the Year. All were in recognition of their recently launched and heritage inspired, Century Condos.

President Gabriel DeSantis had this to say regarding the recent accolades; “It’s with great honour and pride that DeSantis Homes accepts this award from the OHBA. For more than six decades, we have been expanding the boundaries of excellence within our industry. These awards recognize our collective efforts to elevate the architecture, design, construction quality, and sustainability of the communities we build. It also represents our long-standing commitment to the home building industry and the commitment that goes into building thriving, vibrant communities that exceed the needs of our residents. We are so incredibly proud of this landmark development in Downtown Grimsby. We knew Century Condos was critical to revitalize downtown by bringing much needed residential to the core, thereby supporting local businesses, and adding to the vitality of this beautiful town. DeSantis Homes would like to thank the OHBA and everyone involved including McOuat Partnership, Tomas Pearce Interior Design and KNYMH Inc for their creativity and dedication towards our projects.”

Located in Grimsby, Century Condos was aptly named as the town celebrates its centennial in 2022. A building that combines innovation in design and development with bold interiors and a stunning exterior, was designed in collaboration with town planning staff, prominent local heritage architects, and other stakeholders via a series of design charrettes. This sort of synergistic process has proven to be a winning approach.

With thoughtful ingenuity, DeSantis Homes receipt of three awards exemplifies the importance of careful curation of residential buildings within a community. That exceptional design, attention to sustainability, and coordination with local planning staff are paramount to the health of each project, and the overall housing industry. DeSantis is honoured to be recognized by a panel of respected industry peers, who all share in the common goal of making the dream of home ownership achievable.

The team’s imperative to provide a quality residential condominium has not only been proven through the most recent accolades, but also through the brisk sales program, selling over 80% of the available condos within a few short weeks. Due to the unique floor plate of the building a variety of suite layouts are presently available including one bedroom, one plus den and two bedrooms plus den designs.

ABOUT DESANTIS HOMES

At its heart, the DeSantis Homes story is all about family. Ours and yours. This is a story that started when founder, Peter DeSantis, built his first house in 1959. A commitment and a legacy, both were born out of a passion for homebuilding.

Over the past five decades, DeSantis Homes has built thousands of family homes in the Hamilton, Halton and Niagara regions. Today, Gabriel DeSantis is raising DeSantis Homes to new heights while maintaining the craftsmanship and detail that will remain its hallmark. The company is continually evolving, staying ahead of the market and serving as a leader to the home building industry in Ontario.

Contacts

Media Contact:

Carol King

Senior Account Executive

McOuat Partnership

carol@partnership.ca
Cell 905 903 9059

• Launch of two new Space Intelligence Solutions: Data Services and Location Intelligence, for occupancy analytics, Real Time Location Services (RTLS), and energy reporting to boost productivity and sustainability outcomes
• Launch of Ruggedized Micro Sensor, the first in the market for outdoor and high-humidity spaces such as parking garages
• Partner ecosystem addition with Siemens J2 Innovations, collaborating on Smart Building systems
• Consolidation under a single Siemens brand of Enlighted for IoT and workplace technology solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#digitaltransformation–Today Enlighted, a leading proptech company, released a curated portfolio of smart IoT building solutions to create customer value and further enable sustainable enterprises across industries and geographies. According to analyst firm Verdantix¹, 75% of firms will use IoT data for space utilization monitoring. The solutions announced today, part of Siemens’ open business platform Xcelerator, elevate the use of IoT building data to a new level of functionality for leaders seeking to improve productivity of their operations and to reach carbon neutrality.

“We anticipate our new solutions and alignment with Siemens Xcelerator business platform will enable our customers to leverage their building’s IoT and activity data to vastly improve processes and decisions around the interactions of people and their spaces,” said Stefan Schwab, CEO, Enlighted. “Additionally, we will help them further transform their real estate portfolios with a focus on long-term sustainability to meet ESG goals.”

Space Intelligence Solutions – Revolutionizing the Use of IoT Building Data

The new portfolio includes two offerings that help enterprise companies understand activities within their spaces, gain access to deep analytics and leverage visualizations and application software to improve workflows and space utilization. The offerings include:

• Data Services: A set of data APIs and visualizations around three primary areas of value:
  • Occupancy Insights, including new people-counting capabilities to help understand how space is being used and inform decisions around portfolio sizing and space design
  • Efficiency Insights to capture and report on energy savings for ESG reporting towards carbon net zero
  • Location Insights to capture asset and people movements for use with third party location tracking applications
• Location Intelligence: A complete Real Time Location System (RTLS) that includes patented smart sensors embedded in light fixtures, long-life tags and badges combined with a SaaS cloud application for establishing new workflows, events and triggers associated with the movement of assets and people. With multiple standard business platform integrations, Location Intelligence will initially focus on outcomes for healthcare, education, office, and manufacturing industries.

“The Enlighted solution enables us to rapidly adjust our lighting controls via a smart software interface. During the last California heat emergency, we did exactly that, enabling us to dim our lights in the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco while maintaining office functions,” said Alex Ruggeberg, Global Real Estate Engineering, Salesforce. “We easily measured the energy savings via Enlighted’s data reporting. This is exactly the kind of intelligent, smart IoT building management that is part of a sustainable future for Salesforce.”

Ruggedized Micro Sensor

First to market, a low bay Ruggedized Micro Sensor delivering all the functionality of current IoT sensors in a minimally sized package. The sensor is designed for outdoor applications, parking structures, and damp or wet locations.

Speed Digital Transformation with partner J2 Innovations

Strengthening its technology ecosystem, Enlighted also announced a new partnership with J2 Innovations, a Siemens company and provider of open software systems for smart buildings to speed digital transformation around building management.

“J2 Innovations is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Enlighted. With J2’s FIN Framework combined with Enlighted’s IoT offerings, we are excited to deliver a powerful set of IoT solutions to the market,” said Alex Rohweder, CEO of J2 Innovations. “We’re looking forward to leveraging Enlighted’s robust data capabilities integrated with our IoT enabling framework.”

Enlighted is a leading proptech provider of IoT solutions at the intersection of people, space, and work. We offer a unique combination of cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls that connect to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a singular, scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs. Our customers leverage these solutions to enable occupant well-being, greater business efficiencies and momentum toward their sustainability goals. Enlighted is part of Building Robotics, Inc., a Siemens company. For more information, please visit us at www.enlightedinc.com.

¹ Verdantix, Green Quadrant: IoT Platforms for Smart Buildings, 2022

Contacts

Ellen Gustafson
Enlighted
Ellen.gustafson@siemens.com
+1.415.505.6783