Builconn, the preeminent forum for integrated and interoperable buildings, developed a new awards program to answer that question and highlight just those types of buildings. The Buildy Awards were designed to increase awareness of the benefits to whole building integration, and to honor North American facilities that demonstrate the vision of networked building systems and strategies. This means effectively integrating a wide array of building systems and enabling operations over corporate IT infrastructures.
The Buildy for Best Integration Project in North America went to system integrator Energy Control Inc. (ECI) for the Summit Office Building project in Albuquerque. Summit's integration features DDC to the zone level, access control, and a diverse set of integrated systems. Efficiency also played a role as systems were financed and paid for from energy and operational cost savings. This building leverages the power of systems, which were traditionally isolated from both exchanges of data and control sequences.