Using Technology to Create Sustainable Green Buildings

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Using Technology to Create Sustainable Green
Buildings

• Jim Sinopoli Principal Smart Buildings
  Contributing Editor AutomatedBuildings.com
• Ken Sinclair, Editor/Owner
• Online Industry Magazine www.AutomatedBuildings.co
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Using Technology to Create Sustainable Green
Buildings

• We and International Exposition, the producer of
  AHR Expo 2008, welcome you to Chicago.
• It has been a stormy year of politics, economics
  and radical changes that cries for more change
  and reinvention of almost everything.
• Our buildings must be green while presenting a
  financial blue bottom line of sustainable
  connected real estate.
• Our existing stock of large buildings inNorth
  America, which uses 50 more energy than they
  should, presents a huge opportunity.

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Who are we and why are we here?

• My name Ken Sinclair, Editor/Owner
• My 10th year doing these sessions.
• Jim Sinopoli, Principal, Smart Buildings
• Contributing Editor AutomatedBuildings.com

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Building Automation Sustainability

• Whether you view the word Building as a noun or
  a verb the real goal we must achieve is
  Sustainability.
• Reinvention of our Building Automation BA
  Industry is necessary.
• For us to start Building Sustainability with
  Automation we must understand the opportunity
  upon us in smart grid and the Energy Independence
  and Security Act of 2007.

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Buildings on the Grid

• For Smart Grid to be effective, it must include
  deep integration with consuming systems such as
  controlled systems of HVAC and lighting in
  buildings.

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You need to understand GridWise

• 1100 1200  GridWise and the Nations Carbon
  Footprint  GWAC
• 130-230pm B2G - Building to Grid - and the Next
  Frontier for BACnet  Tuesday, January 27
• The second B2G (Building-to-Grid) Summit will
  explore opportunities for HVAC/BAS industry from
  the work underway to develop a smart electric
  grid (Smart Grid). Date Wednesday January 28,
  2009 Time Noon - 500, with networking reception
  from 500 - 600 pm

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As well as Energy Economics and Evolving Energy
Standards

• 130 230 Energy Economics in your
  Buildings Dave Branson, Compliance Services
  Group, Inc. and Ken
• 930 1030 Green Buildings, BIM and Evolving
  Energy Standards Dave Branson and Ken
• 1100 1200 Building to Grid Enabling
  Buildings to Trade Their Energy Toby
  Considine, Systems Specialist, UNC and Ken

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• a full day educational seminar, and the focus
  will be on Advanced Integrated Lighting Controls
  
• January 27, 2009 900AM TuesdayBuilding
  Intelligence Tour at AHR Expo 2009
• New developments in technologies, products, and
  systems combined with advancements in control
  strategies and greater potential for integration
  and cross-optimization with building systems make
  lighting controls more practical and effective
  than ever before.

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The new measured variable Carbon
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Jim Sinopoli Principal, Smart Buildings

• Author of Smart Buildings available on line
  atwww.bn.com
• An International Smart Buildings Consultant
• Is going to tell us about
• - 22billion Carbon free City
• - Dynamic Towers Dubai
• - Googles Floating Cloud Data Center

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MASDAR

• Funded by Mubadala Development Company
• Designed by Foster Partners
• Powered entirely on solar energy and other
  renewable energy sources
• Zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology
• Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC)
• Projected to cost US22 billion
• Started in 2006, eight year construction
  schedule.
• First phase 2009
• 2.3 sq mi
• 50,000 people
• 1,500 businesses

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MASDAR

• Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
• Automobiles will be banned within the city
• Public mass transit and personal rapid transit
  systems
• City will be walled, to keep out the hot desert
  wind
• Narrow, shaded streets that will also funnel
  breezes
• Partners include through the Clean Tech Fund, GE,
  BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce,
  Total S.A., Mitsui and Fiat

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MASDAR

• Power Sources
• 40 to 60 megawatt solar power plant, built by the
  German firm Conergy (construction activity)
• Larger facility and additional photovoltaic
  modules will be placed on rooftops to provide
  supplemental solar energy totaling 130 megawatts
• Wind farms will be established outside the city's
  perimeter capable of producing up to 20 megawatts
• Geothermal power
• Hydrogen power plant
• The city will not produce enough energy to power
  itself at night
• Import gas-fired power from Abu Dhabis grid
• Carbon accounting by exporting excess solar power
  to the grid during the day

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MASDAR

• Water
• Solar-powered desalination plant
• 60 percent lower water needs than similarly sized
  communities
• 80 percent of the water used will be recycled
• Attempt to reduce waste to zero
• Biological waste will be used to create
  nutrient-rich soil and fertilizer
• Waste incineration as an additional power source
• Recycle

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MASDAR SYSTEMS

• Building operation
• Electrical generation and distribution
• Electrical energy meters
• Water meters
• Mechanical systems
• Public health systems
• Lighting control system
• Automated shading system
• Automated atrium roof lights
• Vertical transportation
• Public address system
• Digital signage system
• Sun tracking system
• Irrigation system
• Water features
• Information portal system
• Freight tracking RFID system
• Personnel RFID system
• MASDAR RFID tracking system

• Life Safety and Security
• Seismic monitoring
• Structural anti-corrosion monitoring
• Fire detection/alarm system
• Fire Suppression systems
• Intruder detection system
• Closed circuit television system
• Access control system
• Emergency lighting system
• Oxygen depletion monitoring system
• Refrigerant leak detection system
• Water leak detection system
• Disabled refuge telephone system
• Fire fighters telephone system
• Smoke extract system
• Fire pump
• Sump pumps
• Transportation

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MASDAR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
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DYNAMIC TOWER

• 80 floors, 1,380 feet tall,
• First 20 floors will be an offices
• Floors 21 to 35 will be a luxury hotel
• Floor 36 through 70 will be residential
  apartments
• Top 10 floors will be luxury villas
• Constantly changing shape of the tower
• Rotation takes up to 3 hours
• Power from photovoltaic solar cells and 79 wind
  turbines
• Only part of the tower built on site will be the
  skinny center core.
• Each floor will be prefabricated.
• Require 600 people in the assembly facility and
  80 technicians on the construction site.

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DYNAMIC TOWER

• Construction schedule 18 months
• Photovoltaic cells placed on the roof of each
  rotating floor - 20 of each roof will be exposed
  to the sun
• Bosch Rexroth of Bosch Group, World leader of
  drive and control system is in charge of the
  engineering and manufacturing of all systems
  related to the
• Mechanics of the revolving floors and interface
  between the floor (Plumbing, Electricity, etc) as
  well as the computerized control system.

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DYNAMIC TOWER

• Draw electricity from a circular "third rail" in
  the core
• Water supply and sewer consist of local tanks for
  each unit like a mobile home or RV.
• Kitchen/bathrooms within the core to avoid any
  issues with plumbing connectivity
• Pipes will connect to the core via attachments
  similar to the ones used by military aircraft for
  in-flight refueling.
• Create enough energy to power to the entire tower

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Googles Floating Data Center

• Uses the ocean to provide power and cooling
• Container-based data center (crane-removable
  modules)
• Computers inside standard shipping containers to
  make them more portable
• Quickly displaced and in service
• Modularization also makes maintenance simpler
• Located 3 to 7 miles from shore, in 500 to 700
  feet of water.
• 40 megawatt data centers
• Dont require real estate or property taxes.
• Pelamis Wave Energy Converter units (roughly one
  unit per megawatt)
• Wave farms
• A side-view concept drawing taken from Google's
  patent filing for a "water-based data center," a
  floating facility that would be powered by
  wave-generated electricity. 

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Googles Floating Data Center

• Data center containers could be stacked two or
  more high, so that each data barge could hold 12
  or more containers.
• Undersea cables
• Google partnering with five other companies in
  building an undersea communications cable across
  the Pacific, which could provide high-speed
  connectivity to new Google data centers in Asia.
• Signaling mechanisms such as strobe lights,
  flags, and horns to alert other ships of the
  existence and location of its data centers.
• Questions about jurisdiction and which laws would
  govern
• US territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles
  other nation from 3 to 200 miles

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Chicago AHR Expo Surpasses 2008 New York Show

• Over 1,900 exhibiting companies will display
  products across 395,000 square feet of space at
  Chicagos McCormick Place.
• A wealth of new products and technologies for
  the first time, as well as attend 70 educational
  sessions and workshops presented by the
  industrys leading trade associations on a
  variety of topics ranging from achieving
  sustainability and energy reduction to best
  practices and the latest trends and techniques
  in the HVAC/R industry.

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2009 AHR Expo Innovation Award Winner
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BUILDING AUTOMATION Honorable Mentions 2009

• American Auto-MatrixProduct BBC-SD (BACnet
  Building Controller Small Display)
• Company Delta ControlsProduct Delta Controls
  Touchscreen - HMI, BACnet Operator Display
• Company Lynxspring, Inc.Product JENEsys snap!
  energy management system
• Company FieldServer TechnologiesProduct
  ProtoCessor OEM industrial protocol module
• Company Reliable Controls CorporationProduct
  SMART-Space Controller

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Building Automation Showcase