IQ Building Certification

Intelligent building?

It’s a standard now, but only in theory …
Having BMS automation alone is not enough. I analyzed dozen or even several hundred buildings in Poland. From the top and the largest ones to the small and worn-out ones, where only 1 building had a really refined box automation – a building built by Skanska, Of course, there were a few things that could be improved there, but this is what development is all about. Based on many years of experience, I present a condensed concept of areas for improving and measuring the intelligence of buildings. I invite you to cooperate in specific areas of building intelligence.

Determining the level of building intelligence – IQ Building Certification

BREEAM, LEED, WELL etc. certifications rightly reward the use of energy-efficient solutions and high-quality ecological / low-emission materials. However, the mere application of energy-efficient solutions is not enough. It is necessary to rationally select and configure these solutions, especially in the field of automation. Current certification markets are not focused on building automation.

Disadvantages of BREEAM, LEED etc. Certification Concerning automation and energy efficiency during operation. In fact, these are the main disadvantages along with the many advantages of these certification systems

No details on the automation of impact on automation, IT, data analysis, etc.
Lack of real control over the level of automation use of energy-efficient devices.
The areas of determining and developing the level of building intelligence:
Each of the following points is planned to be covered in the “IQ Building” series of articles on building intelligence.

The areas of determining and developing the level of building intelligence:

Each of the following points is planned to be covered in the “IQ Building” series of articles on building intelligence.

potential of HVAC equipment

• Control algorithms
• Configuration of device settings
• Functionalities for the end user

Cooperation of installations and devices with each other

Algorithms eliminate the negative impact of individual installations on each other and increase the cooperation of individual devices in order to rationalize energy consumption.

Tools supporting operation and energy efficiency

• Monitoring of energy consumption and processing of this data into a readable form
• Real-time data export for future applications from internal energy monitors
• Benchmarking
• Dashboarding / gameplay in office buildings, etc. encouraging saving

BIM friendly and standardization of data recording

• Uniform data recording template, e.g.
• Archiving of measurement data
• Exporting data for additional analysis
• Sample data recording standard for building automation https://www.project-haystack.org/

IOT Ready

• the possibility of displaying any input and output data (packages) for cooperation with the building IOT.
• the possibility of issuing data for external applications, e.g. remote control of fan coil units for selected tenants, e.g. for an additional fee, so that the tenant can set any temperature for a given hour before entering the office.

Security

• Procedures and availability – making backups and the possibility of simple recovery after a system failure (uploading a backup after a failure).
• Protection against the possibility of unauthorized access to the BMS system
• Protection / warnings against actuation that can cause significant damage. Eg. Correctly performed. Protection against humidifiers, gas / electric heaters when the air handling unit is turned off.
• Failure monitoring assessment
• Failure prediction
• Protection against unauthorized access to BMS and IOT

Lighting

• Controls minimizing energy consumption
• Lighting selection – lighting comfort

Comfort support

• comfort control algorithms
• available control options
• comfort monitoring

Facility Management support

• Readability of the interface and monitoring of the operating status of devices
• Possibility of introducing and implementing maintenance orders
• Prediction of failure detection
• Rational building metering with analytical tools of automatic drawing conclusions.

Power engineering

• Management of the use of renewable sources
• SZR, Reactive Energy Compensation
• Network monitoring and automatic notification of irregularities.
• Power guard
• DSR ready
• Use of metering

E-mobility ready

• Possibility to integrate the system with the vehicle charging system and visibility of the charging stations in the BMS
• Building control in case of increased demand for chargers. Concept, design and execution (applies to new and modernized buildings) – http://driv2e.pl/

IT facilities and expansion possibilities

• Scoring for the availability of specialists at the time of certification and prognosis for the future
• Assessment of future costs and possibilities of modifying and expanding the system
• Possibility to provide the user with source codes / algorithms. If necessary, an external company could make corrections, restore the system after a failure. This is to become independent from specific suppliers / companies and increase the speed of response to a failure.

Intelligence of elevators

• Energy recovery
• Intelligence in managing the movement of elevators
• Cooperation with other installations:

Interaction with users

• positive influence on user behavior
• User influence on the building
• Switching on heating / air conditioning depending on AC (e.g. entrance to the building I switch on air conditioning)
• Teaching user behavior

The use of artificial intelligence / machine learning. Quality of the automation design

• Applications of self-learning algorithms

Design of a new building

• The quality of the automation design
• Cross-industry cooperation of designers
• Adaptation of the project to customer requirements
• Application of IQ Building certification recommendations
• Zoning, i.e. the possibility of cutting out the zones of the building from the ventilation, operation of devices.
• Intelligence used in building and installation design

For new uildings

the activity in many points is convergent with commissioning and partly with BIM, but focuses on the issues of automation and rational use of infrastructure as well as data collected in building systems. In view of the data, of course, we consider the building as a whole, instead of focusing on individual parts of the installation without considering the cooperation of existence with each other. Score based on the specified criteria.

For existing buildings

First of all, it is important to assess the use of the potential of the existing infrastructure. Consideration of the recommendation to make minor corrections and improvements mainly in the area of ​​algorithms. For example, thanks to the Enabler DSR of the VPPLant company, which I am a co-creator, you can introduce many improvements in the operation of BMS automation without the need for the participation of BMS programmers with whom there is often a problem.