The gap between finding an energy inefficiency and fixing it has cost building owners for over a decade. Agentic AI is the first technology that can close it.
Cara Eckholm is the founder of AKA Urban, an advisory firm working on public and private sector building projects. She has worked with the Department of Defense on modular projects, Sidewalk Labs, and at Nabr, a startup with Bjarke Ingels Group.
The U.S. modular construction industry has struggled for decades without a large-scale institutional buyer. The Department of Defense may be changing that.
