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Helping You to Achieve Building Intelligence

Intelligent Buildings provide more satisfied occupants while reducing energy, maintenance, and operating expenses. We are your independent consultant, with a mission to help you gain the benefits of Intelligent Buildings. Our clients include leading building owners and managers as well as systems manufacturers and integrators.

Technical and Strategic Consulting Services

We provide a variety of services designed around your needs. These include:

Systems evaluation and planning
Market research, occupant surveys and benchmark evaluations
Evaluation and selection of technologies, suppliers, and options
Financial analysis and justification
System design and specification
Project management and validation

Industry Education and Advocacy

We work to educate professionals involved in building design, engineering, and operations as well as suppliers that provide HVAC, controls, building automation, and related products and services.

Furthermore, we are working with leading organizations and companies on the High Performance Commercial Green Building Partnership, a broad-based public/private consortium that will work across all aspects of the building community to further the development of high-performance commercial buildings.

Building Operations Survey

If you are involved with the day-to-day operations or management of commercial or institutional facilities, we need your input. As part of a National Science Foundation program focused on education in technology fields, we are seeking your participation in an online survey to help us better understand the current structure, organization, and challenges faced by facility operations. Your input will inform efforts to improve education and training and support an industry transition to energy efficient high performance green buildings. To learn more, please download the survey invitation. Or, to go directly to the survey, click here.

Publications

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Intelligent Building Dictionary:
terminology for smart, integrated, green building design, construction, and management
Intelligent Buildings require cooperation between traditional building trades; building automation; Green Building specialists; experts in new technologies like lighting control, digital signage, and intelligent bathrooms; and Information Technology specialists to integrate building systems and enterprise information systems.

This convergence of disciplines has resulted in an explosion of specialized terms, acronyms, and jargon. Building Intelligence Group created this dictionary to help novices and experts cut through the confusion and understand the vocabulary of this fast growing field.

This dictionary features:

Concise definitions for more than 2,500 terms, cross referenced for fast easy access.
Links to sources of additional information.
Summary tables and diagrams.

Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9796408-3-4 Buy now from Amazon.com
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