The document summarizes an intelligent building project in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It describes how the building features [1] advanced climate control systems using frequency controlled ventilation and chilled beams to provide individual microclimate control in each office while reducing energy costs. [2] A comprehensive security and access control system integrating video surveillance, access control, and automation. [3] State-of-the-art IP telecommunications infrastructure. The project aims to reduce operating costs through remote monitoring and control of building systems.

1. TM
in partnership with Beckhoff
Saint-Petersburg, 2011

2. Business Center «Alpiisky»
the first Intelligent Building in Saint-Petersburg
and the best in Russia in 2011

3. Overview
In 2011, INTELVISION LLC launched one
of the first energy-efficient Intelligent Build-
ing projects in St. Petersburg – the multi-
purpose Business Center «Alpiisky».
The contract for the four-storey complex with an
underground parking lot with a total area of 4800
sq. m. included design and construction of MEP
systems, telecommunication infrastructure, an
automation, control and management system
(BMS), as well as implementation of measures
aimed at improvement of the building’s energy
efficiency.
As the general planner, INTELVISION LLC installed
the power supply, lighting, ventilation and air con-
ditioning systems, telecommunication infrastruc-
ture, safety systems, and ensured the integration of
all of these systems into the BMS.
The comprehensive solution was intended to make
it possible for all systems to function normally
under the 222 kVA limitation set by the munici-
pal electric company. In development of climate
systems, a reserve of heating power had to be
made, as additional resources will be required for
the heating of a mansard which is planned to be
added later.
The appearance of the building

4. Overview
Comfort and safety of the tenants of the
multi-purpose complex shall meet the require-
ments for “A” class business centers. To achieve
this, an individual microclimate was created in
each office zone, while safety of staff and visitors
is guaranteed by a comprehensive integrated
security system involving around the clock
monitoring.
Operation of the building should provide a funda-
mental reduction in operating costs, in part due
to remote monitoring by the operating organiza-
tion and automated control of the building.
The appearance of the building - the model in REVIT MEP

5. Microclimate
The building uses a frequency control
ventilation system, the most effective of its
kind to date, manufactured by a Swedish Motion, air-quality,
company Swegon. This allowed for more temperature,
than sevenfold decrease in consumption luminance sensors
of municipal electricity – from the allocat-
Chilled beam (Swegon)
ed 0.3 down to 0.04 Gc. Light (DALI)
The climatic equipment is installed in the technical
area on the first floor of the building and compris- Schneider Electric structured cabling
es a chiller by FAST, a hydro kit, and one central
input-extract ventilation unit (Swegon GOLD RX
80) with the capacity of 28.000 sq. m./h boasting
a highest performance factor due to the applica-
tion of the RECOnomiс rotary heat exchanger.
Office 3D model
Microclimate in 26 office zones is provided by 96
Swegon Biscay chilled beams.
Primary heat transfer agents in ejection systems
are water and air, while heating and cooling are
effected through ejection or forced convection.
Prepared inlet air is sent to rooms through the
ejection nozzles of chilled beams, carrying along
the air from the rooms and forcing it to move
through heating or cooling heat exchangers.
Finished office

6. Microclimate
Therefore, constant income of fresh air is monitoring, optimization and predicative (based
achieved without fans; this decreases the indoor on the data from the outside weather station)
noise level. control of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
functions, taking into account the current rate of
For the «Alpiisky» project, INTELVISION de- power consumption.
veloped a unique climate automation system, For instance, upon reaching the power consump-
featuring: tion limit on a particularly hot day, the minimal
value of a climate control setting will be increased
by 1-3 degrees Celsius, and manual adjustment
air consumption control individually for each of the sunblinds temporary blocked.
room, based on readings of the S+S Rege-
ltechnik RLQ air quality sensor and Belimo
electric-powered valves;
control of the thermo-electric flow valves
regulating water supply to ejection bars and
thermo-electric valves on radiators based on
climate-control settings of the room operation
mode of the whole building, or timer settings
Valves by Oventrop are controlled by a 0-10 V
signal;
automatic shutdown of the ventilation and
air-conditioning system when the windows are
opened;
control of the sunblinds (Somfy), taking into
account the outside air temperature and illu-
mination levels by different cardinal directions,
room occupancy, overall illumination, and the
current climate control mode;
Fishished office

7. Microclimate
Engineering systems design

8. Safety
The integrated security system of the Fire alarm and security system is based on the
building includes IP video monitoring wireless «Streletz» solution and is integrated
with the BMS in two ways: global data on the
based on 18 units of equipment supplied
condition of sections is tied to the OTIS eleva-
by AXIS: P3346-VE street cameras and tor controls and the automation system via dry
M3014 indoor cameras, connected via contacts, while the extended integration relies on
the PoE technology. All office and tech- the closed RS232 protocol, kindly provided by the
nical rooms are protected by the access Argus-Spektr company.
control system based on HID iClass
Certain parameters of the BMS, understandable
readers and integrated with the BMS via by the staff, are displayed on a 6-monitor video
the RS485 protocol. The comprehensive wall in the guard-room. The latter also houses an
access control system enables detailed automated workplace (a PC with three monitors),
staff work time logging, tracking of em- equipped with enhanced functions of video con-
trol, access control management and automation
ployee’s’ location and control of the
control systems.
access mode at the entrance/driveway.
The integrated security system also includes the
Thus, turning the lighting on in an office room evacuation control system, public address sys-
can be triggered either by a motion sensor or by tem, fire suppression system in the parking lot.
the signal from the access control system, while
ventilation can be switched off when a window is
opened, triggered by a sealed reed relay of the
security system.

9. Telecommunications
The building has a state-of-the-art IP infra-
structure installed, based on the Cisco and
Allied Telesis equipment. The infrastructure
provides all the necessary telecommuni-
cation services: VoIP, conferencing, IPTV,
IP video monitoring, as well as a Gigabit-
capable computer network, the capacity
of which can be significantly expanded in
the future thanks to the use of fiber optics
in the vertical cable routing.
The object also has its own information security
system employing such technologies as VLAN and
the SSL encryption.
All the software servers (ITV server, SCADA system
database, etc.) use energy-saving server-side
virtualization and are powered by UPS.
B
For the comprehensive automated system, a sep- M
arate industrial Ethernet network of ring topology
has been built. The core of the network is made up
S
of the managed MOXA EDS 400А series switches
installed in each automation cabinet.
Building’s unified data bus
based on Ethernet TCP / IP

10. Automation
The utility metering system allows for automatic
The «Alpiisky» project surely deserves to generation of reports on electricity consumption
be called unique, as it involved an for each tenant individually and on water con-
unprecedented number of modern auto- sumption for the entire building, as well as for
mation technologies. making forecasts for future periods based on
analysis of the data obtained.
The core of the system is composed of two
industrial С69xx series controllers with the hot The Modbus TCP standard is used for dispatch-
standby and more than 200 I/O and interface ing and control of the Swegon ventilation unit.
terminals by Beckhoff GmbH, distributed among The intelligent load management system allows
ten cabinets. for redistribution of power between major con-
sumers, such as the chiller, the ventilation ma-
The combined temperature, light and motion sen- chine, etc., thus eliminating the risk of electrical
sors (Thermokon MDS LON2), installed in each of overload and enabling the operating organization
the 26 offices use the LONworks bus. to influence the building’s energy consumption.
The KNX standard was used for the Merten Artec
room operation panels control signals to the
Beckhoff central controller for managing lighting,
folding shutters position and microclimate.
All 500 lighting fittings in the building are
equipped with in-built ballast DALI – OSRAM
quicktronic intelligent QTi DALI 3x24 with a dim-
mer function.
The monitoring system for more than 40 electrici-
ty meters Energomera CE303, mounted in all the
cabinets and the MDB, uses the Modbus RTU
protocol.
One of the 10 building control cabinets based
on Beckhoff technology

11. Automation
Overall, the building contains over 1.500 mon-
itoring and control points, with all the readings
processed in real time by the Beckhoff controllers
and entered into the SQL database. Necessary
data are displayed on the Samsung MD260X6
video wall in the guard room via the SmartUnity
BMS SCADA system developed by INTELVISION.
Such data include current general power con-
sumption, climate, lighting and signalization
parameters for individual facilities, accidents and
events log, the current mode of the entire building
operation (work hours, off-hours, days off), status
of the electric power installation sections, ATS and
UPS, status of the ventilation unit, chiller, hydro
kit, PA system, fire alarm status for each floor.
The BMS includes a unified SMS center that
categorizes messages by the degree of impor-
tance and distributes them between building
management services, security and the client
Service. Thus, the SMS center alarms the respec- Control room
tive operating organization about the necessity to
change filters or reminds of a scheduled mainte-
nance.
In addition to all the advantages listed above, this
building control system has virtually unlimited
possibilities for further scaling and modernization.

12. Automation
Service
Internet
BMS
Client / Top Management
Management Service
Remote monitoring and facility management

13. Software
For automation and control of the build-
ing, INTELVISION applied its own soft-
ware: SmartUnity BMS platform. Unlike
other automation systems, such as
Siemens, Schneider Electric, Honeywell
or, say, AMX, Crestron, Control4, the
SmartUnity product provides an innova-
tive solution for sites of any complexity
and does not require long and costly
commissioning and configuration pro-
cess.
Compared with other automation systems,
SmartUnity dramatically (up to several times)
reduces the time required for programming,
testing and commissioning.. This is achieved by
means of ProjectBuilder configuration manager
within the SmartUnity BMS, with the help of which
the behavior of all systems is configured without
programming by a commissioning engineer. SCADA system for monitoring the building
based on the INTELVISION’s SmartUnity BMS software
An in-built system operation manager also
doesn’t require involvement of professional pro-
grammers: configuration, testing and recovery
can be performed by staff with only engineering
training.

14. Software
The «Alpiisky» project also pioneered the
INTELVISION - developed cloud management
system — SmartUnity BMS cloud, which allows to
retrieve the complete information on the build-
ing’s operation, generate reports and diagrams,
analyze event history and present data in the .xml
format for the integration with the client’s ERP
systems – all via the Internet, from any location on
the globe.
Monitoring parameters
of the ventilation unit Swegon Gold

15. BIM
Works on the project involved the use of BIM is also easily integrated with all necessary
Building Information Modeling, or BIM, documentation, which effectively solves the
problem of updating the project documents and
which INTELVISION was one of the first in simplifies access to source materials. BIM is also
Russia to adopt. The information model integrated with the SmartUnity SCADA system for
of an object is five-dimensional: besides quick access to the database of building’s engi-
dynamic 3D-visualization, it also includes neering systems.
parameters such as time and cost.
Information model enables fast creation of
This holistic approach enables to accurately high-quality 3D video and interactive presenta-
calculate operating costs throughout the entire tions for effective and intuitive visual demonstra-
lifecycle of a building already at the design stage tion of the entire object or individual solutions to
and make corresponding adjustments before customers or investors.
construction is completed. For instance, mathe-
matical modeling of thermotechnical properties
of a building makes it possible to develop the
optimal solution for heating, ventilation and air
conditioning systems, taking into account the
allocated capacities.
The use of the BIM technologies also allows for
simultaneous and coordinated development of
architectural, engineering and design solutions
in the framework of one model. Updates change
the entire model automatically, which improves
the quality of design works dozens of times and
shortens the design period by around 500%,
while reducing overall project costs by 50%.

16. BIM
REVIT MEP model of «Alpiisky»

17. BIM
The multi-purpose complex «Alpiisky» is one of
the first objects in the Russian Federation to be
entirely designed using Autodesk REVIT MEP and
REVIT Architecture, both currently being among
the world’s most powerful information modeling
tools.
The process of designing the ventilation system and cooling
The process of installation of ventilation and cooling

18. Cost efficiency
During the design stage alone, the use Let the usable floor area of the building be equal Operating costs have also been reduced
to 3000 m2. With the standard solution of significantly. Thus, the installation of water-saving
of state of the art technical solutions plumbing equipment with an automated water
30 W/m2, power consumption would amount to
allowed to reduce the amount of invest- 3000 m2 х 0.03 = 90 kW, and connection costs flow control and thermostatic temperature con-
ments into the project by more than USD would amount to 90 kW х 50000 =USD 0,15 trol, reduced water supply costs by approximately
0,7 m. m. Low energy lighting required only 3000 m2 х 25%.
0.011 = 33 kW, with connection costs reduced to
The use of the compact ventilation unit by Swe- USD 0,06 m. Economy of operating costs for electric lighting
gon allowed to free up additional 120 sq. m of system is about 60%, for heating — up to 40%,
leasable area, which was initially intended for The use of energy-saving cooling machines in and up to 50% for cooling. In monetary terms,
technical purposes in the architectural project. conjunction with the automation system enabled overall operating costs economy exceeded USD
As a result, the capitalization of the object to reduce power consumption down to P0 = 35 0,09 m per year.
increased by more than USD 0,4 m. kW. Under rated cooling capacity Q0 = 210 kW
at = 2.87, power consumption would amount
The use of DALI-controlled low energy LED and to Р0 = 210/2, 87 = 73 kW, with the connection
fluorescent office lamps resulted in reduction of costs (calculated on the basis of kW = USD 1500
energy consumption for night time lighting from fee) would reach approximately USD 0,12 m. The comprehensive automation
the standard 30 W/sq. m to 11 W/sq. m. LED use of energy-saving solutions allowed for about
lights are used in staircase landings, WCs and in USD 0.06 m economy, another USD 0.02 m. have
the outside entrance zone, while other rooms are been spared in a similar manner by the design of partial automation
equipped with DALI fluorescent lighting fixtures the ventilation system.
using low energy OSRAM T5 HIGH Efficiency
standard automation
lamps with increased luminous efficiency.
without control

19. Cost efficiency
kW/m 2
Heating
(up to 50% savings)
Lighting
(up to 60% savings)
Cooling
(up to 40% savings)
Water supply
(up to 25% savings)
Ordinary building «Green building»
Building energy efficiency class “A”

20. Comfort
Exclusively demand-based consump-
tion of resources resulted not only in
increased cost efficiency, but also in
improved comfort of tenants and higher
efficiency of maintenance companies.
Controlled blinds
Lighting can be controlled both automatically
and manually. Operator has full access to the
system, while employees in the offices only can
switch on/off the local lights, which are also
triggered by motion sensors or access control
system readers. The overall illumination level is
maintained automatically, depending on the over-
all indoor illumination level. Office control panel
Control of lighting in the rooms is divided into
two groups: near to and away from the windows.
Under good natural lighting conditions, the “near
window” group’s luminance is automatically de-
creased by 10-30%.
Servodrive
If during work hours no motion has been detect-
ed in the room for 15 minutes, lighting is dimmed
by 50% and then turned off completely if no mo-
tion occurs in the subsequent 15 minutes. During
off-hours and days off the timers are set to 10
and 5 minutes respectively.
Office control

21. Comfort
The system automatically cools or heats the All parameters of the climate system can also be
building for the scheduled time at the beginning controlled by the operator. Outside maintenance
of a working day, yet employees in the office services have full access to all control functions and
rooms are not deprived of the capability to adjust monitoring of the building, including all backup infor-
temperature manually. The microclimate control mation, history of accidents and errors, etc., via web
in a room can change dynamically, depending browser.
on the outside air temperature and the current
power load of the building. With the help of SmartUnity system, control and
monitoring of the building’s systems can be executed
When a window is opened, ventilation automati- both from desktop applications and from mobile apps
cally switches off and then starts again when the for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile platforms via
window is closed. In case the system runs in the GSM/3G/WiFi networks.
cooling mode, penetration of direct sunlight into
the room will automatically cause the sunblinds to
be lowered.
Air exchange parameters are dynamically adjust-
ed taking into account the number of persons in
the room and the types of their current activities
based on readings of air quality sensor. During
nighttime, the system automatically maintains
minimal air exchange.
At the end of a working day, at 8 pm, the tem-
perature is automatically reset to the base value
(appropriately set for the time of year), provided
that no motion has occurred within a room for
more than 30 minutes.

22. Energy efficiency and environmental friendliness
street lighting
Despite the fact that environment-
6,3°C
friendly construction is a fairly new trend
on the Russian market, today the object’s 5
“green” status constitutes an undeniable
competitive advantage affecting overall
0
value of the building and tenant appeal.
In order to guarantee high levels of heat insulation,
-5
new-generation environment-friendly materials
were used in construction, such as ROCKWOOL
and Beltep mineral (basalt) wool, Penoplex 35
-8,7°C
polystyrene foam sheets.
The use of modern heat insulation materials in
combination with ceramic-granite lining upon
metallic façade mounting system ALUCOM
extends the lifecycle of the façade while
ensuring a high level of heat insulation.
For the roof coating, a high-tech material Izoplast
was used, which, in addition to extended durability
and good heat insulation properties, is significantly
less toxic than traditional roofing materials.

23. Environmentally friendly
Certification according to one of the LEED criteria:
internationally recognized certification
location
systems (LEED, DGNB, BREEAM) water consumption efficiency
obviates the need to prove for cost effi- energy efficiency
ciency of building operation and tenant environmental friendliness of construction materials
comfort, acting as an effective marketing health and comfort of tenants
message. This is why the investor into innovations and multi-faceted approach to design
the “Alpiisky” complex contemplates the
possibility of the certification according LEED Certificates:
to the US LEED system, currently the Basic
most widespread in the world. Silver
Gold
The multi-purpose complex “Alpiisky” can score Platinum
51 points in the LEED system, which will enable it
to qualify for the LEED Silver Certificate.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design) is a Certificate issued by US Green Build-
ing Council since 1998.

24. About the company
INTELVISION Group of companies offers a wide In 2010, INTELVISION entered into strategic
range of services in the domains of energy- partnership agreement on joint development and
efficient buildings construction, engineering implementation of Intelligent Building projects with
design and building automation. COMSTAR (MTS).
Among the solutions offered are: INTELVISION was an award winner at Innovation
of the Year– Baltic Build 2008 and won the
Energy-efficient/Intelligent Buildings Russian HiTechBuilding Award 2010 and 2011 for
the Best Comprehensive Automation Solutions.
Clean-rooms
Data centers
Smart House systems and solutions for private
clients
In 2007, INTELVISION received the status of an
“authorized system integrator in building automa-
tion field” from BECKHOFF GmbH (Germany).
In 2010, INTELVISION became Microsoft Silver
Certified Partner in software development for
BMS systems.