Intelligent Buildings was founded in 2004 by Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison. What started over a lunchtime conversation at Panera Bread over how frustrating this industry has become led to our founders creating a service to sustainably impact the world’s built environment. Bringing together aspects of building technology design, engineering, and consulting, we started our business at a time there were no methodologies—we had to create them.
We paved the way in creating impactful, innovative solutions for building owners based on the belief that technology inside a building should work for you, not the other way around. Over the past 20 years, we’ve partnered with some of the world’s top building owners and investors to create, meet, and exceed their outcomes, helping reduce risk, optimize operations, and enhance building technology performance.
Paying it forward is a massive component of our value of teamwork. As such, we have
established three key pillars to give back to our employees, communities, and the building
technology industry.
IB matches each employee’s financial or time commitment to charity with a corresponding
donation. If an employee cannot or chooses not to give money, they can still direct a donation from the company that corresponds to their way of giving.
We programmatically share our knowledge through school programs, guest lecturing, pro-bono consulting work, and mentoring services. We have long-standing relationships with
academia and not-for-profit groups, as well as mentor- protégé arrangements.
We offer organized activities, such as Habitat for Humanity, food banks, homeless shelters, and other categories aimed at those in need. We avoid politics and advocacy to focus on the most basic human needs of hunger, shelter, health, and hope.