Smart and Intelligent Buildings Achieving Architectural Concepts

Abstract

With ongoing status of energy crisis in today’s world now it’s important for architects, engineers, and construction managers to create buildings that are energy efficient and intelligent by its functions and usage. The new technologies should be applied in intelligent buildings shall improve the building environment and functionality for occupants, and on the same time reduce operational costs. The Smart and intelligent building systems concept distinguishes the true cost of the building is not only the cost of construction, but also the operating and maintenance costs over the structure’s life span. Cost reductions over all these areas is achieved by optimizing energy use and guard against repair costs, time, productivity loss, revenue loss and loss of customers to competitors. It must be smart enough to vary the environment to suit the users and provide various means of networking internal or external. At more major level intelligent buildings can cope with social and technological change and adapt to human needs. Smart buildings focus on control systems, but intelligent buildings go far beyond this. An Intelligent building is defined as the one use both technology and process to create a safe facility, healthy and comfortable and enables productivity, well-being of its occupants. An intelligent building has an implied logic effectively evolves with changing user requirements and technology, to ensure continues improved intelligent operation, maintenance, and optimization. It revels key features of environmental sustainability to value present and future generations. This thesis provides research in the area of Intelligent Building with supportive case studies. This thesis consists of six parts and ends with the conclusions and recommendations.