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Article: How to maximize today's intelligent building technology.(Spotlight on: Construction and Building Services)
- Article from:
- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- July 15, 1998
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Incorporating new technology into a facility can vastly improve the performance of the building's occupants. But providing the latest in voice and data communi-cations, audio visual systems, building automation and security and climate controls can be problematic if a building's design isn't considered as a whole.
To maximize the investment in technology, building owners and occupants should consider such projects in the context of an integrated Intelligent Building (IB) matrix. This will ensure that the functionality of each system is enhanced by its relationship to other systems, and to the total built environment.
A conspicuous difference between the IB ...