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The UAE has been a vortex of amazing construction and buildings for some time. As the UAE continues to build and grow, CABA President & CEO Ron Zimmer has been invited, as a keynote speaker, to share CABA research on intelligent buildings at two conferences. The first event is entitled: 6th Ajman International Urban Planning Conference, which takes place from March 11 - 13 in Ajman, UAE. More details on this event can be found at: http://www.aupc.ae/EN/Pages/default.aspx. Ron's presentation will be: "Intelligent Buildings - Security Comes First". The second event is EnergySavers UAE, which will take place on March 17 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Ron's presentation is entitled "Public - Private Partnerships in Reducing Energy through Intelligent Buildings". More details on this event can be found at: http://tpsworldevents.com/. If there are CABA members or other industry stakeholders that would like to schedule meetings with the CABA President & CEO, please email: zimmer@caba.org.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) announced today that Melissa Simpler, CEO of Affinegy, has been appointed Vice-Chair of CABA’s Connected Home Council. Learn more.

The Board of Directors of the Continental Automated Buildings Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Hélène Vaillancourt, Executive Vice President, Science & Engineering, CSA Group to the Board. Read more.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association recently entered into an agreement with MultiView, Inc. for the creation of a new set of association publications.  Read more.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association recently completed its collaborative “Intelligent Buildings and the Bid Specification Process” research study. Learn more.

The latest edition of CABA's iHomes & Buildings magazine examines using building management systems to monitor lifts and escalators, the development of home automation operating systems and provides highlights about CABA's Digital Home Forum and recently completed research.  Read more.

The Board of Directors of the Continental Automated Buildings Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Starek of Diebold, Incorporated to the Board. The appointment was ratified at the latest CABA Board meeting, hosted by IBM, on November 9, 2012.  Learn more.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association is pleased to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Association of Energy Engineers. The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) is an organization dedicated to the dynamic fields of energy engineering and energy management, renewable and alternative energy, power generation, energy services, and sustainability. Learn more.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association has completed a collaborative research study that examined the impact of smart grids on connected homes. Overall, the study found that only 39 percent of consumers had some level of understanding of the smart grid. However, only 34 percent of consumers, who have general smart grid awareness, attribute this awareness to their local utility company, and marketing campaigns concerning smart and green home technologies. Read now.

The Continental Automated Buildings Association is pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the China Smart Home Industry Alliance. CABA was able to negotiate the terms of the agreement through face-to-face meetings with the China Smart Home Industry Alliance during Messe Frankfurt's Shanghai Intelligent Building Technology 2012 event in September. Learn more.