Building Automation News Feeds

Helps Buildings Reduce Energy Use with Internet Intelligence Michael Bordenaro, BIM Education Co-op

NIST Seeks Comments on Smart Grid Report

After each year's event I try to list my takeaways of the things that significantly impacted, impressed me and are likely to change my future. - Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner

Real-time visualization of sensor data in Excel-generated BIM on Google Earth is a world premier. - Kimon Onuma, FAIA, ONUMA, Inc. and Michael Bordenaro, BIM Education Co-op

The perfect storm produced a perfect event; a combination of rich subjects discussed, enormous business opportunities for vendors and integrators alike, on a backdrop of solving climate change problems and interestingly an awareness of social changes permeating our world. - Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.

Object Automation Model will enable us to have programming and documentation done in one standard format and location. - Alper Uzmezler, BAS Services & Graphics, LLC.

Replaceable control valve cartridges allow the preservation of your original labor and embodied energy investment while reducing the total generated waste in facilitating upgrades and maintenance. - Paul Balazovjech, President, Spartan Peripheral Devices

As buildings move to incorporate more sensors and metering to generate data about usage and performance, metering and monitoring the electrical distribution and plug load will be integral. - Jim Sinopoli PE, RCDD, LEED AP, Smart Buildings

Regular dust-ups between Engineering and IT on the shop floor reveal characteristics and approaches that are strikingly dissimilar on both career and personal levels. - Randy Kondor, President, OPC Training Institute

Smart and Green Parking Garages - Jim Sinopoli PE, RCDD, LEED AP, Smart Buildings

Prophet Gives You Wings! - Andy McMahon, CSI3

Convergence of Green and Intelligent Buildings - Rawlson O'Neil King Communications Director, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)

Do you know how much energy your building is using? - David Helliwell, Co-Founder and CEO, Pulse Energy

The power of the people lies not just in how we innovate, but also how we are able to share knowledge with others through that innovation. - Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner www.AutomatedBuildings.com

Take a virtual tour of your building's mechanical systems - Steven R. Calabrese, Control Engineering Corp.

Strategies that should be considered to optimize the operations of these systems using the control system to dramatically reduce energy usage. - Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt, Building Intelligence Group

Companies that are successful in this day and age (of this global economy) are successful because they partner and collaborate with other companies that also are successful. No one company, or consortium, can truly afford to stand alone. - Manny Mandrusiak, Vice President of OPC Marketing, OPC Foundation

Another Commentary on BAS-IT Convergence - Andy McMillan, President and CEO, Teletrol Systems Inc. & President BACnet International

Last month, the National Institute for standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled the Interim Smart Grid Interoperability Roadmap. (http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/) The roadmap defines the smart grid and how it interacts with is smart end nodes. - Toby Considine, Technology Officer, Facility Services, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Continental Automated Buildings Association has launched a study that will assist industry in determining the size and potential of the North American intelligent and integrated building technologies marketplace. - Ron Zimmer, President & CEO, CABA