Building management

About: Building management is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 744 publications have been published within this topic receiving 7573 citations.

Life-Cycle Environmental Effects of an Office Building

Abstract: This paper quantifies the significant environmental aspects of a new high-end office building over 50 years of service life A comprehensive environmental life-cycle assessment—including data quality assessment—was conducted to provide detailed information for establishing the causal connection between the different life-cycle elements and potential environmental impacts The results show that most of the impacts are associated with electricity use and building materials manufacturing—in particular, electricity used in lighting, HVAC systems, and outlets; heat conduction through the structures; manufacturing and maintenance of steel; manufacturing of concrete and paint; water use and wastewater generation; and office waste management Construction and demolition were found to have relatively insignificant impacts The identified most significant aspects are quite predominant; 7% of all counted aspects cover over 50% of the life-cycle impacts Practical applications of the study’s results could be in the e

Comfort control system incorporating weather forecast data and a method for operating such a system

Abstract: In a comfort controls system for multiple buildings (whether residential, commercial or industrial), a weather forecast unit sends weather forecast data over the Internet to a building management provider which handles building management services for a number of clients, each having a number of buildings and properties. At the provider's reception station, data on the external-building characteristics of all the buildings are compiled with the received data and then fed to the appropriate building management controls system.

Brick: Towards a Unified Metadata Schema For Buildings

Abstract: Commercial buildings have long since been a primary target for applications from a number of areas: from cyber-physical systems to building energy use to improved human interactions in built environments. While technological advances have been made in these areas, such solutions rarely experience widespread adoption due to the lack of a common descriptive schema which would reduce the now-prohibitive cost of porting these applications and systems to different buildings. Recent attempts have sought to address this issue through data standards and metadata schemes, but fail to capture the set of relationships and entities required by real applications. Building upon these works, this paper describes Brick, a uniform schema for representing metadata in buildings. Our schema defines a concrete ontology for sensors, subsystems and relationships among them, which enables portable applications. We demonstrate the completeness and effectiveness of Brick by using it to represent the entire vendor-specific sensor metadata of six diverse buildings across different campuses, comprising 17,700 data points, and running eight complex unmodified applications on these buildings.