INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS Optimizing Building Neurology to Maximize Human + Building Performance
BUSINESS CASE FOR INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS Energy savings approaching 20% per Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Energy Efficiency
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Operational Efficiency
User Experience
Increased operational benefits of adding significant square footage and improving key performance indicators while maintaining same staff. Energy Star notes that owner can achieve a 20-30% ROI with minimal risk with the use of energy and technology systems. Operational Efficiency
User Experience
Improved productivity through enhanced user experience. Per U.S. Green Building Council office worker productivity increases between 2-18% on average in bright green buildings. User Experience
THE AEI VALUE AEI was founded in 1978 as a global engineering firm with a focus on building systems: mechanical, electrical, piping, fire protection and commissioning. As we grew, information technology and sustainability became part of the core. Our engineering concentration and knowledge base lends itself to a holistic approach to Intelligent Buildings critical to your building stock. Why? Whether a new or existing building, how air and fluid moves through a building – similar to the human body – isn’t dependent on command central alone. In reality, sensors go out of calibration, actuators that open or close a damper fail, flow meters get clogged – all requiring field intelligence to solve. Additionally, adeptly engineering those systems in the first place is crucial. There is no
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AEI’s Intelligent Buildings team works with you to create living, breathing, intelligent buildings that increase productivity, reduce operating costs, minimize the use of natural resources, attract and retain top talent. intelligent building software or technology that will unleash high performance of a building that wasn’t engineered to do so in the first place. Building materials need to be evaluated, HVAC systems designed for peak performance and with preventative maintenance in mind. And that’s where we begin.
Researchers say that humans only use 20% or less of their brain’s capacity. The same is true for Building’s brain in most cases.
20% of our brain capacity
20% of our building data
Harness 100% of building data with intelligent systems
BUILDING BLOCK APPROACH We begin by helping you define what is Intelligent for your organization. What is your vision for an Intelligent Campus and how does that vision help you reach your business objectives? From there, we establish Key Performance Indicators to measure outcomes so you can report back to your stakeholders that human + building performance has been transformed! Adopting an IB approach to facilities operations can appear daunting in size and complexity. AEI has developed an incremental process that allows owners to begin with small steps that build in generating value.
Analytics / Diagnostics
Data Visualization
Data Analytics
BAS Optimization
Intelligent Building Design
Ideation Workshops
Work Process Optimization
Building System Integration
Business System Integration
Data Historian
Fault Detection and Diagnostics
Dashboards
Advance Trending Reporting Graphics
Data Planning
Control Standards
Metering Strategies
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Training
Performance Measurement Instrumentation
Ideation Workshops
Work Process Optimization
Organization Skill Set Evaluation
Point Naming Open Protocols
Measurement and Verification Plan
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION Determining Change Questions
Implementing Change Answers
Actions
PROJECT • Do operations need to be corrected/improved/introduced? • What are the current conditions? • Is historical data sufficient to establish an accurate starting point? • Can a reasonable timeline be developed?
• If the information is quantifiable and complete, conduct analysis. • Execute completion of assigned measures. • Support operations staff implementation. • Track staff response and impact. • Provide trending and reports to document success of initiative.
PEOPLE • What spectrum of job functions will determine necessary changes? • Which facilities operations staff will be affected?
• If all functions and operations representatives are engaged, develop recommendations for change.
With the goals of using fewer people to use less energy, verify tasks, and quantify outcomes, an IB initiative will almost certainly introduce change to a culture of habits, practices, and preferences. Intelligent buildings require intelligent practices, aggressive training programs, and personally invested staff members. Through listening and engagement, AEI enlists staff as agents of change rather than making them subject to it. The benefits aren’t just successful adoption but continuity, as these individuals know the owner’s needs and processes possibly better than owner does. Through a directed program of change management, leveraging new technologies to accomplish more creates opportunities throughout an organization.
The intersect of technology and sustainability – the convergence of energy, information and building technologies – is the launch point for the successful implementation and measurement of physical spaces that contribute to an optimized people + building interface. Sustainable Goals
Intelligent Methods
• Integrated Systems • Simplified Operations
• Data Analytics
• Water Conservation
•Energy, Water and Air Quality Management
• Machine Learning
• Air Quality Improvement
• Space Optimization
• Waste Reduction
• Automatic Measurement and Verification
• Energy Conservation
Profitable Outcomes • Reduced Operating Costs • Increased Productivity • Minimized Consumption of Natural Resources • Attract & Retain Top Talent • Enhanced Security
• Augmented Reality • Predictive Operations • IT Infrastructure
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EXISTING FACILITY OPTIMIZATION
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Automatic Work Orders
Data Connectivity & Historian
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Key Performance Indicators
Project Services
Instrumentation & Controls
SIMPLIFYING COMPLEX OPERATIONS OF NEW BUILDINGS High performance design alone doesn’t guarantee high performance buildings in operation Economic sense, environmental stewardship, and new codes, standards, and rating systems continue to raise the bar for building performance, prompting complicated engineered systems design and complex operational strategies. Reductions in operations staff and skills compound the challenge of successfully operating buildings at peak performance. Technology is available to correct energy and operational anomalies, and provides the means to predict failure or deficiencies before they occur, yet few high performance designs function as high performance buildings in their first months or even years of operation. Many never do, fully, leaving what amounts to a revenue stream on the table, indefinitely. Enterprise building management systems and services – the basis of “intelligent buildings” – allow owners to orchestrate the disparate data produced by a building’s engineered systems and leverage it to improve energy and operational efficiency, and enhance user experience. Embracing building automation system enhancements and intelligent building strategies as part of the building design process translates high performance design concepts into high performance operations, achieving greater value than would otherwise have been possible.
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At the core of any Intelligent Building are high performance MEP systems. Vendor-neutral AEI has an award-winning record of system design employing a portfolio of modeling tools, a collection of benchmark building performance data, and a sophisticated understanding to leverage the value of these calculations.
QR Codes
Smart Devices to Access Building Information
Giving Occupants Control of their environment
The third layer is user experience. We make the end user part of the building environment by giving them control through their data walls and smart devices. User experience can be further enhanced through the use of QR codes.
Integrate Building Management Systems
Define
Measure
Reduce Alarms
Analyze
Improve
Control
Central to AEI’s achievements in high performance design is a philosophy to “design for operation.” This includes providing efficient operator interfaces offering as much in a glance as possible. And AEI uses a six sigma-type process to automate or optimize facility management work processes – for example, systems integration utilizing such advanced building automation strategies as alarm management.
UF SHANDS HEALTH KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:
80% Reduction in Alarms
MAPPING BUILDING DNA FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
18% Energy Savings Patient Comfort in the Past Four Improving Years - $2.8M
DATA ANALYTICS
3,000,000 SF OF HEALTHCARE SPACE
The intelligent buildings approach has been wildly successful at UF health, it has allowed us, in some instances, to switch from a reactive to a pro-active mode of operation. DON GLASER DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS (RETIRED)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY Network Architecture Standards that define connectivity and integration protocols.
Developed over 20 specification sections in the CSI 04 Division 25 Format.
Control Sequence Requirements
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Defined requirements for Direct Digital Controls (DDC) and SCADA system.
Enterprise front end specifications for graphical user interface based on open licensing standards.
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER FEDERALLY MANDATED ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS
34 BUILDINGS 3,300,000 SF
3 30,000
DISPARATE CONTROL SYSTEMS
POINTS
OUTDATED SYSTEMS & REPORTING
REQUIRED MITIGATION STRATEGY & MASTER PLAN
DELIVERABLES: • Integration Specifications (Div 25) • Detailed System Architecture • Instrumental Location Plans (Floor) • Network, Power, Panel Coordination
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Parallels “Internet of Things”
2010
1,500 points per building
SO LET’S USE IT. By the sheer volume of data they now generate, buildings are among the leaders in the “Internet of Things.” The value proposition of Intelligent Buildings is to use technology better and leverage data more fully, to improve energy and operational efficiency, and to enhance the user experience.
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