‘An Intelligent Building (IB) provides a sustainable, responsive, effective and supportive environment within which individuals and organisations can achieve their objectives.’
Intelligent Building Group
Furthermore, an IB is a dynamic and responsive architecture that provides every occupant with productive, cost effective and environmentally approved conditions through a continuous interaction among its four basic elements and the interrelation between them:
Places (fabric; structure; facilities):
Building fabric and structure have a profound impact on building performance, characterising how a building will react to airflow, heat loads, daylight and sound.
People (services; users; stakeholders):
Ultimately people are the vital ingredient of an Intelligent Building, particularly with respect to their interaction with the environment. Productivity issues for end users and other stakeholders are factors.
Processes (automation; BMS; controls; systems):
Building services, energy management and ICT systems designed to provide environmental control, mobility, communications, facilities, fire protection and security.
Management (maintenance; performance):
Intelligent Building demands intelligence applied at the concept, construction and operation stages of the project by clients, design consultants, contractors, manufacturers, Systems Integrators and facilities managers using best practice terms of design process and assessing building performance.
The potential benefits of Systems Integration
As well as the enhancement of self-automated ‘cause and effect scenarios’ the benefits that systems integration can enable are as follows:
- Capability to control more effectively the built environment.
- Enhanced occupant productivity/recovery levels.
- Enhanced Energy Efficiency Management/Metering.
- Increased energy-savings.
- Enhanced Building Services operation and FM procedures.
- Increased opportunity to pre-commission and test plant off-site.
- Reduction in the onsite commissioning programme.
- Increased accessibility and design flexibility of the building systems monitoring and Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- Minimisation of unplanned system downtime and increase in corporate resilience.
- Reduction in the level of supply-chain management, procurement and associated cost.
- Increased Interoperability of sub-systems through the utilisation of Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) .
- Increased ease of scalability.
- Provides a platform for an upper layer of ’IB applications’.
- Managed Communication of all data transfer across sub-systems and to assist audit trails for statutory compliance.
To discuss how systems integration and our Intelligent Building consultancy services can benefit your building or project contact us at mail@syntegra-epc.co.ukor on 08450091625.
