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Articles - April 2008
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ASHRAE, CSI & OPC at BuilConn The new face is strangely a combination of the past, the changing, the new, and a heavy dose of socially-driven subjects that together are turning the world of energy and buildings upside down. as ASHRAE, CSI & OPC meet at BuilConn. Anto Budiardjo, President, Clasma Events Inc.
Getting a Handle on Web 2.0 and the New Services Development Paradigm John R. Janowiak, President, International Engineering Consortium
Demand Response and the Energy Conservation Spirit Integrating Demand Response into Overall Energy Efficiency on a College Campus Steve Schaefer, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, EnergyConnect Inc.
Communicating To the Enterprise Isn’t Science Fiction Far from being science fiction, providing the ability to connect building automation systems to the enterprise using OPC is very much a reality today. Eric Murphy, BSc, PEng, MatrikonOPC
Total Facility Control We need a better way to upgrade, enhance, and control what we have. Facility managers need a plan, a partner, and an incentive. Ron Bernstein, Executive Director, LonMark International
End-to-end solutions for business automation A new site automation software development platform arrives on the market. Lydia Cobo, Marketing Europe, Elutions
Changing the Present Value (Or Why the Present Value doesn’t change) Peter Chipkin, Partner AGP Support Group.
Mega Video Solutions Systems are not just cheaper and more flexible they have opened up new opportunities. Barry Keepence, CTO, IndigoVision
The Future of Automated Buildings in North America As published Climatização & Refrigeração Magazine Brazil Ken Sinclair, Editor Owner AutomatedBuildings.com
Columns - April 2008
Typical Controllers in DDC Understand the differences in controller types and applications Part 1 of 3 Steven R. Calabrese, Automated Logic Chicago
Rent Seeking is Crippling Building System Markets Rent seeking is defined as when an individual, organization, or firm seeks to make money by manipulating control of the economic environment rather than by making a profit through trade and production of value. Toby Considine, Technology Officer, Facility Services, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Writing the Controls Specs…. One of life’s great challenges In reality the design of the controls system really starts with the selections made for the mechanical and electrical systems and a good understanding of how the building will be operated. Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt, Building Intelligence Group
Articles - March 2008
Pushing Green into the Black Self-powered Wireless Controls Build Financial Cases for Green Buildings Robert Eckery, Marcom Manager, EnOcean, Inc.
How Energy Revolution Affects You! As in previous revolutions, social change will be significant, impacting everything from our daily lives to commerce and politics. Anto Budiardjo, President, Clasma Events Inc.
The Number One Thing That Will Grow Your Business in 2008 The time for Energy Engineered Systems (EES) is now because the traditional construction process is broken and it is hard to deliver value without EES. Jack Mc Gowan, CEM, Energy Control Inc.
The Coming Flood of Energy Reporting, Building Sensors and System Meters In order to meet the challenge of energy management within buildings, maintain and increase the performance and asset value, buildings systems will need to dramatically increase devices that can sense, monitor, measure and manage energy loads and consumption, and weave that data into management reports that provide actionable information. Jim Sinopoli PE, RCDD, Managing Principal, Smart Buildings
Oops! I Missed a Point Use your existing Ethernet infrastructure and save money, time, and aggravation. Joe Stasiek, Sales Manager, Contemporary Controls
BACnet and Interoperability A coming of age Rocky Moore, Marketing Lead, American Auto-Matrix
Simply the Best User Interface The telephone continues to hold claim to the most convenient user interface. Ron Poskevich, General Manager, Lumisys
Innovative touch screen technology for BAS The graphics have to be a little bigger and links, like sequence of operations callouts, require larger navigation links. Dan McCarty, Quality Automation Graphics
An intelligent energy demand management system ....that automatically predicts, regulates, and lowers peak demand for industries without compromising the operation of connected equipment. John Reed, Media Relations, Powerit Solutions, Inc.
Build Green and Stay Green with OPC To fully achieve efficiency and stay Green for the long run, building systems need to be monitored and maintained. If it can be measured, it can be managed and OPC supplies the means to do both. Eric Murphy, BSc, PEng, MatrikonOPC
Helping China Grow a Greener Future China's Ministry of Construction (MOC) estimates that China will double its current building stock by 2020. The vast majority of these projects are large—commercial office buildings between 100,000 and 150,000 m2 and residential developments that span more than 500,000 m2 of construction area. Mike Williams C.Eng. FCMA, MCIBSE, MSyI, Managing Director, Founder CDC - Central Data Control
Design and Implementation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure This article provides an overview of the AutoDR field tests and implementation activities from 2003-2007 and focuses on the concept for and lessons from the development and field-testing of an open, interoperable communications infrastructure to support automating DR. Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar Demand Response Research Center – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Spokane International Airport Eliminates Paper Process Spokane International mainly had problems tracking maintenance information. The main concern in the maintenance department was tracking labor hours spent maintaining airport equipment. Eagle Technology, Inc.
LEED provides creditability to Smart Building Automation Smart building encompasses the integration of all of the systems in the building, this additional level of commissioning should be a requirement to ensure the benefits of integrated building technology systems, and in the process, pick up one LEED credit. Ken Sinclair, Editor Owner AutomatedBuildings.com
Columns - March 2008
SOB - the Service Oriented Building My passion is web services interfaces to the engineered world to let embedded systems be full participants in the enterprise. Toby Considine, Technology Officer, Facility Services, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
How Safety Devices (Should?) Affect System Components Simple, albeit important, rules of thumb regarding equipment failsafe modes. Steven R. Calabrese, Automated Logic Chicago
Green Intelligent Buildings – a Brief History The original concept of Energy Management, which later became Building Automation, started in earnest as a result of the OPEC oil embargo in 1973. Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt, Building Intelligence Group
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