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Building Automation
CITY OF THE FUTURE
Toyota is building a 175-acre smart city at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji, about 62 miles from Tokyo.
Called the “Woven City,” the development is expected to be fully sustainable, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Construction of the city will begin in 2021.
Toyota said the smart city will be a testing ground for technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence and smart homes.
Initially, it will be home to a starting population of 2,000 Toyota employees and their families, retired couples, retailers, and scientists, who will test and develop the technologies.
Residents of the city will live in smart homes with in-home robotics systems to assist with daily living and sensor-based artificial intelligence to monitor health and take care of other basic needs.
To be designed by famed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, the city’s roads will be dedicated to self-driving, zero-emissions vehicles.
LEFT: 60 Martin Place, Sydney
BELOW: Microsoft’s Redmond campus, Washington
and/ or services that are utilised in the delivery of a smart building,” she said.
“Because of the high levels of innovation in smart building technologies, or what is com- monly known as proptech, we have avoided de- fining the IB Index’s measures via propriety tech specifications.
“Instead we have focused on descriptors of the functional capabilities that the IT enables and how this translates to different levels of building intelligence.”
The functional capabilities currently being tested in the Index cover three main input pil- lars: (1) Smart Project Delivery, (2) Smart Infra- structure, Devices and Applications, and (3) Smart Controls, Monitoring and Management.
“Across these three pillars we are currently cali- brating around 190 indicators, with a hierarchical approach to scoring each capability,” Jupp said.
“Smart building technology should deliver benefits and value for tenants and the wider community, which is inherently linked to the tri- ple bottom line of sustainability.”
Jupp said the question the delivery team must solve is how to ensure that the smart building will provide the right combination of economic and fiscal, social and behavioural, and environ- mental benefits.
“I think property developers have realised that smart buildings can and should be able to deliver on all three areas of sustainability. ‘Smart’ must therefore also encompass the un- derlying drivers and constraints of the business case, property market and regional tech-related infrastructure.
“Navigating how to specify and deliver a smart building according to these drivers and con- straints - and then continue to support ongoing tech investment throughout the life of a smart building - is a complex undertaking.”
Jupp said another big driver is energy perfor- mance, as it is the common thread used to measure benefits according to the triple bot- tom line.
She said other important capabilities in- clude building analytics and occupant feed- back apps.
In a presentation to the Smart Building Sum- mit, Jupp said the IB Index provides property developers and owners with a technical frame- work to reference when deciding what intelli- gent capabilities to include in a building with a set project budget.
“It creates more operating profit for building / facilities managers and can assist financial insti- tutions and valuers to more accurately place a
value on technologically intelligent buildings,” she said.
“Building and facility managers will have a roadmap to reduce operational costs and in- crease revenue.
“It will also benefit leasing agents as they will be able to share ROI in marketing communica- tion, enabling tenants to make informed deci- sions about technology enabled benefits within their workspace.”
Jupp said designers, contractors and suppliers can also use the tool during project delivery to better understand their role and ability to offer value when partnering, procuring and imple- menting technology solutions to meet their cli- ent’s objectives.
She said the IB Index can also objectively as- sess value for financial institutions and property valuers in their assessment of smart buildings and funds management.
“We’re wrapping up the case studies at the end of March and will have our first beta release by the end of April,” Jupp said.
“Then we can produce our technical guidelines as we plan to develop an online tool by the end of 2020. “As an open standard we’re excited to be deliv-
ering such a potentially transformational open standard to industry.”
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