Intelligent Characteristics

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
Ehrlich is a well-known industry stakeholder and advocate of integrated and intelligent buildings. In 2004, he formed the Building Intelligence Group (www.buildingintelligencegroup.com), an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to help system suppliers, as well as building owners and man-agers, maneuver their operations through the vast changes prompted by open systems, convergence, and enterprise building management.

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