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Intelligent Buildings

Intelligent Buildings

• Features• Advantages• Drawbacks• Conclusion• Q & A

Intelligent Buildings

• Features• Clements Coombe (2004)

Intelligent Buildings

AdvantagesChan & Lam (2010)

Intelligent Conventional

Energy Costs

Intelligent Buildings

• Features• Advantages• Drawbacks

– construction costs– careful management– technical problems

• Conclusion• Q and A

Intelligent Buildings

High Construction Costs• Morrison and Roberts (2007)

Effective Presentations

Technical Problems

Preston (2008)

“The central computer system works perfectly meaning an average wait of only 34 seconds for an elevator passenger; until the central computer system stops working perfectly….”

Intelligent Buildings

• Advantages• Drawbacks• Intelligent Buildings in Hong Kong

– high construction costs– careful management

Intelligent Buildings

Reference List

Chan, S., & Lam, K. P. (2010). Intelligent and conventional buildings. Architecture Today, 15(8).

Clements Coombe, K. P. (2004). Features of a building. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lam, J. K., & Preston, T. (2005). Environmental benefits of intelligent buildings. Cambridge: Unicorn Press.

Morrison, B., & Roberts, M. (2007). Comparing buildings. Hong Kong. Imperial Press.

Preston, P. (2008). Technical problems in the intelligent building. Modern Buildings,24(4), 24- 32.

Intelligent Buildings

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