Harry Indig, PMP - Computers and Communications

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Harry Indig, PMP Presentation Communicating
the BIG PICTURE

• August 11, 2008

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Buildings
• Cars
• Computers
• Technology
• Conclusions

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The greatest achievements of the 20th century by
ASME
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1 Automobile
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2 Apollo
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3 Power Generation
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4 Agricultural Mechanization
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5 Airplane
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6 Integrated Circuit Mass Production
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7 Air Conditioning Refrigeration
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8 CAD/CAM and other Technology
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9 Bioengineering
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10 Codes and Standards
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Your Future
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Introduction

• If we in business compare the technology used in
  new cars with the technology used currently in
  new buildings, there are tremendous gaps in the
  application of technology in new buildings.
• Applying our knowledge to the current list of
  sensors, computers, controls and displays used in
  new cars, we can provide similar and significant
  opportunities in both efficiency of operation and
  additional cost savings in building performance.

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Cars

• With all this new technology, today's cars are
  much more reliable
• and have significantly reduced maintenance
  requirements.
• I would like to site several examples
• In the 1970s, an automobile needed a tune up
  every 10,000 miles.
• Today, a typical new car does not need a tune up
  for 100,000 miles.
• Older cars needed new brakes about every 20,000
  miles. Now it's every 50,000 miles.

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How did the Automotive Industry do this?

• Engineering Analysis and Design
• Overall Quality Control Programs
• Widespread Use of Microprocessors Computers
• System Modules
• Communication Buses
• Smart Sensors
• Wiring Harnesses and Standard Connectors
• Use of Skilled Assembly Workers

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Why does New Building Construction not have the
same features as new cars?

• Why doesn't New Building Construction include
  more new technology as Standard Equipment and
  Systems?
• Unlike new cars, most new buildings are site
  built, and are built to "cookie cutter"
  specifications that emphasize lowest first cost
  of construction.
• Cars are constructed in a factory assembly line
  by the millions before they are moved to their
  ultimate market and YOU the consumer.

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Common Circumstances

• More new cars are sold each year than new
  buildings, so there is a larger market for the
  technology and the price can be reduced due to
  volume sales.
• Cars have a shorter lifetime than buildings, so
  new technology can be introduced faster, and the
  customers can develop a faster appreciation for
  what the new options can do!
• Purchasers of new cars are influenced by features
  they have seen on other cars.
• Therefore, consumer demand is important in
  increasing the marketability of new technology
  options through the automotive industry.

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Buildings

• Function
• Comfort and convenience
• Seating
• Inside Lighting
• Windows
• Normal Operation
• Safety and Maintenance
• Pleasure Entertainment
• Advanced Systems
• Navigation Systems
• Collision Avoidance Systems
• Rain Sensing Wipers
• DewPoint Glass Temp Sensors
• Voice Commands

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What does the building construction industry need
to do?

• Build more modular buildings
• Impose standards on equipment and system
  suppliers
• Use equipment and system modules
• During early shuttle development there was great
  debate about the optimal shuttle design that best
  balanced capability, development cost and
  operating cost.
• Ultimately the current design was chosen, using a
  reusable winged orbiter, solid rocket boosters,
  and an expendable external tank.1
• 1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  (NASA)

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Features of Automobiles That We Could Use In
Buildings

• Features of cars That We Could Use In Buildings
• Display Systems
• Individual control systems
• Individually controllable air supplies
• Driver
• Front passenger or cubicle
• Heating or air conditioning are individually
  controllable
• Individual internal lighting

Johnson Controls developed individual cubicle
HVAC controls
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Computers

• Personal Computer (PC)
• PC may be a
• Home computer
• Found in an office
• Connected to a local area network
• Distinguishing characteristics of primarily used
• Interactively
• One person at a time
• PC contain a 32-bit, 500- to 1,000-MHz processor
• Emissions enacted the engine control unit (ECU)
• Contains microprocessors and onboard computers
• This an example for a Ford Ranger ECU
• Provides closed-loop control
• Fuel injectors
• Spark timing

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Computers

• Widespread Use of Microprocessors and Computers
• System Modules
• Communication Buses
• Smart Sensors
• 1 billion personal computers (PC) had been sold
  worldwide since mid-1970s till this time
• 75 for professional or work related
• 25 for personal or home use
• 81.5 were desktops
• 16.4 were laptops
• 2.1 servers
• In the USA it is 38.8 of the 1B PCs

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Technology
Internal Opportunities in Buildings
Microthink If you can't measure it, then it
doesn't exist
At Microsoft, there is an obsession with
measurement. If you can't measure it, then it
doesn't exist. As a result, we set up data
collection mechanisms, and try to interpret that
data, even if the data isn't what we're really
interested in, but we act as if it is. Because
it's what they know how to do.
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Technology

• Building Performance Reviews
• Actual Energy Performance Metrics
• Actual Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
• Actual EUI compared to
• Building Design
• Building Baseline

• Energy Star Rating
• Occupant Functional Comfort
• Response Distributions
• Acoustics
• Air Quality
• Lighting
• Temperature

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Technology

• Visual representations of this level of energy
  use detail can provide a quick, simple, and
  intuitive look at building energy use.
• Here we can see equipment warm-up patterns,
  effect of different operating hours on weekend
  energy use.
• Data can also be compared over time with last
  seasons patterns, etc.
• This graph shows w/ft2 power consumption for a
  small restaurant (Hot Lips Pizza), but day of
  week and time of day.

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Technology

• The Potential for Information and Control Systems
  Technology in New Buildings
• Intelligent Buildings
• Smart Buildings
• New ASHRAE building codes
• Major Improvements
• Acoustics
• Air Quality
• Lighting
• Temperature

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Expert Opinion

• BARNEY L. CAPEHART, Ph.D., C.E.M., is a professor
  emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• University of Florida, Gainesville
• Broad experience in both commercial and
  industrial sector of Energy Analysis
• Director of the University of Florida Industrial
  Assessment Center from 1990 to 1999
• Conducted over 100 audits of industrial
  facilities
• Assisted students in conducting audits of
  thousands of office buildings and other
  nonindustrial facilities
• He has taught a wide variety of courses and
  seminars on systems analysis, simulation, and
  energy-related topics.

BARNEY L. CAPEHART, Ph.D., C.E.M., is a
professor emeritus
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Expert Opinion

• ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
• Sophistication of information technology exists
  and we can create Smarter Buildings
• It will require off the self technology extensive
  use of the basic building blocks of sensors,
  actuators and controllers
• Increased capabilities for customizing the
  workplace to the needs of the workers and their
  employers, because of the PCs in the work place
  and within our homes

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Conclusions

• Just the Facts
• New buildings have not kept up with technological
  advances, especially when compared to
  automobiles.
• All we need to do is to make one trip in a new
  car, and then make one visit to a new building to
  see this for ourselves.
• Comfort level, safety levels, reliability levels,
  quality control levels and automation levels are
  all much higher in new cars than in buildings.
• The imagination and creativity that goes into new
  car technology and manufacture should be
  harnessed for our new buildings as well.
• We really do need to start building our new
  buildings like we build our new cars.

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QUESTIONS

• Ask yourself the following questions
• Did I take or learn anything today?
• Do I understand what my next steps are?
• Do I have a commitment for my next step towards
  my personal deadline?
• Is my next step achievable and realistic?
• Towards the car I drive
• Buildings that you and I live in and work in!!!

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Expert Opinion

• ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
• Research opportunities
• Interface of how people work,
• Where people work,
• How they can be made more effective in buildings
• As they have become in their cars
• Much of the research agenda
• Quantitative evaluation of productivity gains
• By innovations in information
• Control technologies in new buildings
• New information technologies
• Including cable TV and computers
• Continued development and application of new
  sensors, actuators and controllers.

9/23/2019
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Are Codes, Standards or Legislation Required To
Increase the Use of New Technology in Buildings?

• Integrate new building technology with the
  desktop computers and
• Building Automation Systems (BAS) that are
  already being installed in new buildings
• Benefits of Standardized Commissioning of
  Buildings

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Buildings

• Monitoring 24 Hours and 7 Days a week
• All external conditions surrounding buildings
• Optimization of Performance
• Time based control and operation for Maximum
  Efficiency

External
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