Intelligent Building Top 5 Smart Buildings Ebook
Intelligent Building Top 5 Smart Buildings Ebook
CASE STUDIES
FIVE OF THE WORLD’S
MOST INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS
An Intelligent Building Europe 2020 eBook
www.intelligentbuildingeurope.com
INTRODUCTION
S mart building technology is transforming the built environment. It offers huge efficiency
savings, and helps business reduce their carbon footprint and energy bills. Buildings
equipped with smart technology can also create a healthier, more comfortable experience
for occupants, with the ability to control lighting, temperature and air quality to deliver the
optimum conditions for good working and healthy living.
This eBook runs down five of the world’s most innovative and dynamic smart buildings from
Singapore to the United States. These offices, conference centres and skyscrapers all feature
systems designed to reduce their environmental impact and improve occupant experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Capital Tower, Singapore 2
This stylish, high-tech corporate centre was built WHAT MAKES IT SMART?
to display the state of Victoria’s technological and ■ A series of underfloor thermal chambers, a
ecological credentials. ventilation system and an earth pipe heat
Nhill—one of the first towns in Australia to receive exchange system draw in fresh air from the
electricity—has always been ahead of the curve, and exterior, delivering a fresh air supply to the building
this building is designed to enhance the office envi- ■ LED lighting systems lower energy consumption
ronment for its employees and promote development and require less maintenance than alternatives
in a modern and ecologically sustainable way.
■ Solar panels on the rooftop harvest energy from
the sun, providing clean, green power to the
building
Year
2014 ■ Crossflow ventilation and zoned motion-detecting
lighting improves energy efficiency by ensuring
Architect
k20 Architecture usage matches occupancy
Owner
Hindmarsh Shire Council ■ Vertical green walls enhance indoor air quality
Tenant
Hindmarsh Shire Council by removing carbon dioxide from the air and
replacing it with fresh oxygen
Key numbers 60%, the reduction in
energy usage compared ■ An electronic control and monitoring system
to the previous building measures the effectiveness of the design to
minimise energy consumption, controlling
maintenance and energy usage