Imagine if a building could function like an iPhone. That idea struck Rudin Management’s John Gilbert III when he waited at Joe’s Pizza on 14th Street in 2009. With Rudin building operations head Gene Boniberger at his side, Gilbert, the firm’s COO and technology chief, recalled that he pulled out his early model iPhone and said, “That stupid phone’s got an operating system. Why don’t our buildings have [one]?” The two Rudin executives had emerged […]