Realcomm / IBcon Announces Its 2012 Digie Award Winners

    CARLSBAD, CA, July 02, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Realcomm Conference Group announced the winners of the 14th annual prestigious Digie Awards during the Realcomm / IBcon 2012 Conference last week in Las Vegas.

Since 1999, the Digie Awards have been presented to companies, real estate projects, technologies and people that have positively impacted the commercial, corporate, government and institutional real estate industry through the use of technology, automation and innovation. This year, with the launch of the inaugural IBcon 2012 - The Smart, Connected, High Performance, Intelligent Buildings Conference, separate award categories were created for Realcomm and IBcon to more clearly address the difference between automating real estate business processes and creating intelligent building systems, buildings, portfolios and cities.

Realcomm and IBcon 2012 are proud to announce this year's winners:

REALCOMM
Best Use of Automation
- Commercial Services - CBRE
- Owner / Developer - Granite Properties; Vornado Realty Trust
- Asset / Property Management - Boxer Property
- Facility Management - Jones Lang LaSalle
- Corporate Real Estate - Walmart
- Real Estate Investment Management - TIAA-CREF

Real Estate Technology Innovation
- Orion / Yardi

Digital Impact Awards

- Don Goldstein, CBRE
- Tama Huang, NOI StrategiesIBCON
Best Intelligent Building Projects
- Office Building - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission HQ
- Office Portfolio - Arden Realty / GE Capital Real Estate
- Corporate Headquarters - ESI / Gateway West
- Retail - Westfield
- Multifamily - Reve / Tridel
- Campus - IBM / Rochester; Microsoft
- City / State - New York City

Smart Building Technology Innovation
- M2M Wireless Technologies / Qualcomm Atheros

Digital Impact Awards
- Rob Murchison / Tom Shircliff, Intelligent Buildings
- Jim Sinopoli, Smart Buildings

"Each year, we are pleased to recognize individuals, organizations and projects that are collectively the best representation of innovation in our industry," commented Jim Young, CEO and Founder of Realcomm and IBcon. "They are the leaders and forward thinkers that propel the industry and its operations to the next level of technology, automation and innovation."

About Realcomm
Realcomm Conference Group, LLC (www.realcomm.com) is the leading research and educational institution that produces annual conferences and expositions on technology, automated business solutions and intelligent buildings for executives in commercial, corporate, institutional and government real estate. Realcomm was founded in 1999 with the goal of bringing industry leaders together each year to discuss, demonstrate and debate the latest innovations that impact the industry. Today, in addition to the annual conferences, Realcomm conducts webinars, workshops and other strategic services to educate industry professionals about the latest business solutions and technologies to improve commercial real estate development, leasing, management and operations.

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