Hello, my name is Steve, I am the owner of a small company of 95 people. Since 1 year we have built a new office building fully automated: it’s great! I mean, both the working comfort and energy efficiency issues.
Intelligent building : 100% building controls
Draft for a new IEC standard
At an hour when advices for energy efficiency are to be written, the challenge is to aim at completed general installations rules for electrical installations of buildings, in the way to obtain the highest possible service for the lowest energy consumption. This shall be true in new and also in existing buildings.
electrical energy efficiency, IEC standard draft
About Websites referencing Energy Efficiency tools, I have identified 3 websites that reference Energy efficiency tools for Buildings. These tools are software applications, excel sheets and others…most of them are free or shareware.
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BIM and IFC: an opportunity for new innovative players (open source type) to enter the Building design software environment market OR a strengthening of the major players position? (closed source type?)
BIM, Building Information Modeling: the concept
IFC, Industry Foundation Classes: the standard
High Performance Buildings
above picture from US National Institute of Building Science
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I am sure you have appreciated right away this video that explains what it is about …
Cost efficient W.A.G.E.S management: energy meter is key !
(Water Air Gas Electricity Steam)
From my point of view, I think that Energy management is a major action in all Energy Efficiency programs.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!
The first thing to do if we want to optimize the consumption of a building is to know, ie to measure and record in a database, all the consumptions for making analysis and having a clear vision on the division of consumptions in the building.
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The increase in energy costs has raised awareness to all stakeholders of buildings that operating expenses could be a source of economy. If the approach has been taken into account in the design, it remains improvable in the exploitation phase. It is necessary to consider the building as a process, analyze the flow and can be interesting to look at the automation experience of manufacturers in order to copy their methods and analysis tools. We also call this field, Building Management System. We propose here to address the subject from this angle.
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Information Technology and Communication = a lever for value creation in energy efficiency
Relevant information can be turned into action to improve energy performance and cost reductions associated.
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