Intelligent Characteristics
by Mr. Paul Ehrlich, P.E.
July 29, 2005
Process
Design:
- Flexibility – designed to change
- Energy efficient design (LEED®)
- Complete building modeling
- Focus on building circulation and Feng Shui and common spaces for networking
- Integration with transportation and surrounding community
- Construction:
- Sustainable construction practices
- Electronic project documentation
- Modeling extended into construction
Operations:
- Integration of all systems
- Remote operations and optimization
- Tenant portals:
- After-hours operation
- Maintenance management and dispatch
- Energy information and management systems
- Real-time energy response
- Continuous comfort monitoring and feedback
Technology
General:
- Tenant amenities:
- Concierge
- Shopping
- Restaurants
- Lodging
- Parking
- Restrooms
- Optimized vertical transport
- Personal comfort control:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- IAQ
- Lighting
- Acoustic
- Networking/Telecom:
- Common network infrastructure
- Structured – maintainable cabling
- WiFi
- VOIP
- Digital signage
- Security/Life safety:
- Digital video monitoring
- Access control and monitoring
- Automatic fire suppression
- Fire detection and alarm
- Egress support (lighting, signage, etc.)
- Contaminant monitoring and containment
- Proximate security/guard services
- Mechanical:
- Energy efficient equipment
- Thermal storage
- Combined heat and power
- Controls optimization
- Extensive sensing
- Energy efficiency
- IAQ
- Comfort monitoring
- Internet-enabled controls
- Enterprise integration
- Water and gas metering/submetering
- Electrical:
- Energy efficient lighting
- Lighting control
- Distributed generation
- Dual power feeds/emergency power
- Power quality monitoring
- Submetering/billing
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Mr. Paul Ehrlich, P.E.
Ehrlich has established the Building Intelligence Group, an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to help system suppliers as well as building owners and managers, maneuver their operations through the vast changes prompted by enterprise building management. The main focus will be in the areas of facility and IT integration, convergence, and intelligent buildings, with additional plans of exploring options related to next-generation real estate and technology development. For more information, please visit http://www.buildingintelligencegroup.com
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