PARA OS Wins Digitalisation Initiative of the Year at the 2025 Big 5 Global Impact Awards
PARA OS has been named the Digitalization Initiative of the Year at the 2025 Big 5 Global Impact Awards, an industry-leading recognition for organizations that demonstrate measurable, sustainable digital transformation across the built environment.
This award celebrates initiatives that go beyond technology adoption to deliver real operational change: fixing long-standing pain points, strengthening team collaboration, boosting productivity, and creating a culture where innovation becomes part of everyday decision-making. PARA OS earned the top honour for proving all of this not just in theory, but in buildings where performance, comfort, and resilience are measured every single day.
The experiment began in two extremely different climates, 150 Holborn in London (BREEAM Outstanding, LEED Platinum, SmartScore Platinum) and Dar’s Cairo headquarters (LEED Gold). Both buildings were state-of-the-art and yet, like many high-performance facilities, they still hid inefficiencies once fully operational.
By transforming both offices into full-scale living labs, PARA OS ingested more than 60,000 live data feeds from 650+ sensors, unified previously separated building systems, and turned manual, reactive operations into predictive, data-driven workflows.
Across two contrasting climates, PARA OS delivered measurable improvements in building performance. In London, the platform supported targeted energy and comfort optimisation, including a 22% reduction in energy use across key meeting-room zones. In Cairo, PARA OS reduced whole-building energy use by 28%, decreased unplanned work orders by one-third, shortened repair times, and improved the LEED O&M comfort score from 12 to 16 out of 20. PARA OS continues to strengthen both sites’ readiness for advanced smart-building certifications, including UL’s SPIRE Smart Building rating.
Lessons learned from these living labs became the foundation for Digital Ready Design — a set of design-phase rules that ensure every new project leaves the drawing board digitally ready, with converged networks, open protocols, and the infrastructure needed for PARA OS or any future smart-building platform. What started as troubleshooting inside two buildings has now become a repeatable model that strengthens design quality, reduces retrofit costs, and sets a new standard for how data should move through the built environment.
With living labs proving measurable results, PARA OS has shifted from internal experiment to global solution, now operating in offices, towers, campuses, hotels, and mixed-use developments across multiple regions.
The platform is helping clients reduce energy, improve comfort, cut downtime, and meet rising sustainability and smart-building requirements, demonstrating that digital transformation is not about technology alone, but about delivering performance that people can measure and deploy for better outcomes.
