Integrated Building Systems Engineering and Automation

Abstract

With influx of smart grids and smart apps, the building automation systems landscape has developed much faster than MEP products over the last few decades. It is the driving force for optimum operations, improved reliability, and energy savings through the integration of building systems critical to the functionality of a facility. Through the years, occupancy, comfort, safety, reliability, and efficiency have been key factors in the development of the technologies. However, as the global conscious has changed in regard to the impact of humans on our own environment, and global demand and access to energy has risen, a new driving imperative has been placed on facility professionals, engineers, and humanity alike regardless of energy cost: Our goal globally is to reduce our energy consumption in a manner that significantly decreases the negative impacts our consumption has on our environment and thereby on all of nature (including us) alike.