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Intelligent building: from dream to nightmare!

August 25th, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Energy Efficiency - building
Tags: Energy Efficiency, intelligent building

I wrote this article to react to the previous post called “My office: a 100% intelligent building!” where Mr Steve Tettoc describes how great his new intelligent building is. His building, where everything is fully automatic and occupants have no control on their environment, seems really crazy to me.

And honestly I wonder if Mr Tettoc, and the visitors who commented that they thought it is a bright idea, have a real field experience of how things evolve in such buildings after a few years, and what their occupants really think about it.

angry occupant in intelligent building

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Energy management: enable every occupant to tailor his own dashboards

June 18th, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Energy Efficiency - building
Tags: Building Facility Manager, energy dashboards, energy management, energy management system

Tailored energy dashboard on your iPad

Energy bill and carbon footprint are becoming increasingly important topics for commercial buildings. This trend started with large buildings but nowadays also small and medium size buildings occupants and owners are eager to reduce their energy bill and carbon footprint… and to show it to all their stakeholders.

Devices and solutions providers are developing new features and new offers to enable that efficient management of the various energies, so that facility managers both for new and existing buildings can contribute to a sustainable development: meters, wireless communication systems, etc.

But the most dramatic change will come from the way the occupant and facility manager interact with that energy management systems to make it an actual tool for them to make things happen, in his specific situation.

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Building Facility Manager : web community ?

May 1st, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Energy Efficiency - building
Tags: Building Facility Manager, energy management system

An energy management web community for commercial building facility manager s : myth or reality?

Social networks are booming whether they are personal, such as Facebook or Myspace, or professional such as Linked-in or Viadeo. This momentum demonstrates deep changes in our behaviour and shows the need for people to communicate and share their experience, through new tools and technologies.

My vision is that we could gather building facility manager s within dedicated web communities for sharing experience and getting tangible benefits from interacting with peers …
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Remote energy management

March 23rd, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Energy Efficiency - building
Tags: building energy management, online energy management, remote energy management

Energy monitoring as a “hosted” service: this is my choice!

Building energy management

Yesterday, very few commercial buildings had a building energy management system implemented, even less a system actually used regularly by the facility manager. Tomorrow this will become common place, if not mandatory, even for small size buildings.

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My office: a 100% intelligent building !

February 24th, 2010 | 12 Comments | Posted in Energy Efficiency - building
Tags: building controls, Energy Efficiency, intelligent building

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.