The DNA of Smart Buildings: Part 1
We spend over 90% of our time inside buildings 1 . This means that buildings today are expected to provide the same nurturing environment as the outdoors, as well as leveraging technology to aid productivity and comfort, all while minimising operating costs, reducing Cybersecurity risk and downtime. The fact that 40% of the current workforce is set to retire by 2020 2 only brings in the additional challenge of the expectations of the millennial generation, who are poised to be in leadership positions across industries in the next few years. The concept of Smart Buildings is certainly not new – in fact, buildings have been getting ‘smarter’ from the advent of Building Automation solutions some decades ago. However, today’s definition of a ‘Smart Building’ goes beyond automated operation, towards intuitive operation. There are several considerations of what makes truly ‘Smart’ today. From Net Zero Energy to Zero Carbon: A Net Zero Energy building generates as much energy as it consu...