ABSTRACT
The broadest new market is likely to be in multi-tenant office buildings, where on-site telecommunications, data-communications and office-automation services can be offered to tenants on a shared basis. One of these intelligent buildings is the $640 million headquarters for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. completed in 1986. Its 5,000 sensor point electronic building management system is one of the most comprehensive of its type. The boxes stacked on either side of the building that contain toilets, water storage and a local air conditioning plant. The building management system played a part in commissioning these decentralized mechanical service modules. The energy management system will drop off pertinent data such as total running time of equipment, and the maintenance system will be programmed to print out preventive maintenance work orders. In 1984 a fiber optic network cost about 50 cents per ft.
