Monday, February 4, 2013

Project Topic: Intelligent and/or Green Buildings


For the term project, I will be focusing on the topic of “Intelligent and/or Green” with Gabrielle Carpenter.  I chose this topic because green buildings a hot topic of today in the building industry and I thought it would be interesting to explore the relationship between green and intelligent buildings. I don’t much background in either subject but I figured this would be a great opportunity to learn more about green buildings and intelligent buildings.

Intelligent, energy-efficient buildings are expected to be an important part of future energy systems.
There are practically no limits to the number of functions that can be incorporated into intelligent buildings: lighting, heating/ventilation, climate control and energy management among others. I’m very interested in how these systems will contribute to the “green image” of the building.   

As G. Carpenter mentioned in her post, I think the biggest challenge with our project is going to be finding information of intelligent buildings because they are referenced in many different ways and there is not one single description of an intelligent building. Everyone has their own definition of what exactly an intelligent building is.

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