When looking at a building, how good its internet is, is probably not one?s first thought. But for the tenants and companies inside it, it?s a key building service that they rely on daily.

Wired Certified Platinum - Willis Tower, Chicago, US

When looking at a building, how good its internet is, is probably not one?s first thought. But for the tenants and companies inside it, it?s a key building service that they rely on daily.As Arie Barendrecht explains, ?it?s vital to tenants of buildings and critical to attracting and maintain new tenants ? it?s a non-negotiable design component."Barendrecht is the co-founder and CEO of WiredScore, a company that ranks commercial buildings on their connectivity. Beginning in New York, the company has provided wired certification to over 300 buildings in the city, with further operations across several other US cities as well as London and Manchester in the UK. The company?s work is instrumental in showing architects how their designs need to prepare for the 21st century and acknowledging those that already do.An interesting lesson from analysing connectivity across international cities is that the biggest variations aren?t found from city to city, but between buildings on the same street. While neighbouring buildings may appear physically similar on the outside, ?under the hood," they can be completely different. It?s this difficulty in gauging connective performance by the average tenant or broker that wired cer...