What makes a building intelligent? Let's go through these two examples to know those features better. One is the world's most tallest building and the other conceived of latest automations.

1. BURJ KHALIFA
Services in High rise Buildings- Intelligent
Buildings
Grace Henry (68017)

2. Project Profile
Location- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Blvd - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Category- Skyscrapers
Area- 454249.0 m2
Project Year- 2010
Architects and structural engineering and
services planning- Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill LLP, Chicago, USA
Client- EMAAR Properties PJSC, Dubai, VAE
Project management- Turner Construction
International
Contractors- BeSix / Samsung /Arabtec

3. Hymenocallis, a
type of lily, is native
to tropical Central
America. Its flower
structure is said to
have provided the
idea for the shape
of the Burj Khalifa's
ground plan.

4. SERVICES BY VOLTAS
Specialized Systems
•Building Automation
•Power Monitoring and Control
•SCADA
•Lighting and Dimming Control
•Central Battery
•Lightning Protection and Earthing
•Fire Alarm System
•Steam and Condensate
•Propane Gas Distribution
•Solar Powered Hot water supply
Electrical
•74 Nos. 11kv/400 volt transformers
•5 Nos. 11kv, 2.1 MVA Generators
•22km HV Cables
•250km LV Cables
•5300km LSF Cables
•65km Fire Rated Cables
•2.8km Bus Duct
HVAC
•Total Cooling Load 13000 tons
•34km of Chilled Water Piping
•5000 Nos. Fan Coil Units
Fire Fighting
•213km Fire Fighting Pipes
Plumbing and Drainage
•100km Water Supply Pipes
•48km Drainage Pipes

5. The Burj Khalifa was open on January 4th 2010
It’s the world’s tallest tower at the moment more over that the height is 828 Meters
The building is previously known as the Burj Dubai.
The tower consist of several special features such as most number of the elevators
and fastest as well 64km/hr, the highest outdoor observation desk.
It consist of 162 floors which is been cladded with 28,261glass panel outside the
tower, The concrete used for paving is 2,065 Km long .
PRODUCTIVE
Vertical city due to multiple typologies
catered
5 stations of amenity services
Centralized at basement and then
distributed (building management room)
Supplementary power supply 360000
bulbs of 100 watts at a time

6. Condensation
collection system.
This unique system was designed to irrigate the gardens and
water features surrounding the building. Condensation created
when the hot and humid air outside combines with the cooling
equipment throughout the building. Both the cooling equipment
and the condensation collected is monitored around the clock.
The resulting condensation is collected and drained into a
holding tank beneath the structure. This water is then pumped
into the irrigation system for use on the Burj Khalifa park.
An estimated 15 million gallons of water are collected in this
fashion every year, enough to fill twenty Olympic-sized swimming
pools.

7. Concrete Buttressed
Core
A concrete hexagonal core with an innovative system
of Y-shaped buttresses was utilized to give the
building a unique and stable “tripod like” stance.
The main safety advantage of this “three winged”
core design is that it gives the building torsional
resistance and reduces the vortex effect of high
winds.
A large reinforced concrete mat likewise supported
by bored reinforced concrete piles—each pile is 1.5
meters in diameter and 43 meters long—supports
the structural core of the building.

8. Glazing
The Structure is highly durable and capable so that the glazing
installed silicones are the unrivalled technology to provide
protection from Ultraviolet light, temperature and the weather
resistance so they are specially manufactured form the Zurich of
triple glazing which gives the maximum protection.
The high performance structural silicone sealants ensure lowest
possible gas loss rates from the glazing and these are
manufactured in European standards EN 1279.

9. Interiors
The interior of the wall is mainly based on the
Gypsum wall rather than the main walls in order to
reduce the whole building weight. The Thermal
insulation is done at such a way that between the
two boards in the cavity they have placed the rock
wool to protect the cold loss more over that the
screws are specially manufactured and all the
accessories are provide by the company with fully
furnished including all the sockets and points to
avoid the drilling further.
Good loft insulation is also provided with a rock
wool and false ceiling with central cooling system.

10. Earthquake
Resistance
The Burj Khalifa building has the capacity to
withstand earthquakes up to a 7.0 magnitude. This far
surpasses the 5.9 magnitude earthquake standard
that regulations require for tall buildings in Dubai.
In addition, a system of motion sensors located
throughout the building is designed to detect and
report unusual structural movement.
The Burj Khalifa has also recently joined with a
number of tall buildings in the area to adopt the
Online Alerting of Structural Integrity and Safety
(Oasis) earthquake detection system to help
determine when to evacuate highly populated areas
in an effort to reduce casualties.

11. The World’s Fastest
Elevators
Boasting an “Intelligent elevator installation” that is the highest in
any building to date, the Burj Dubai has a total of 57 elevators and
8 escalators. With an average capacity of 12-14 passengers per
cabin, the elevators are capable of travelling at 10 meters per
second, which makes them among the fastest in the world. The
elevators are located within the building’s central reinforced fire-
resistant concrete core.

12. The Burj fire safety system mainly
consist of 3 components
As the water is sprinkled the fire
gets extinguished and the high
power fans supplies fresh air by
pushing the smoke out
These are all tied in with the
aforementioned home
automation system featuring
smart multi-alarm smoke, heat
and optical sensors found in all
rooms throughout the building.
The Burj is also equipped with 38
fire and smoke resistant
evacuation lifts.
As an added safety precaution in
the event of a fire, sandstorm or
earthquake, a highly trained team
of emergency specialists will
remain onsite at the Burj building
24 hours a day, seven days a
week.

13. • Reinforced Stairways and Refuge Areas – In the aftermath of unthinkable events
such as the 2001 terrorist attacks that brought down the Twin Towers at the World
Trade Center, architects and engineers have had to rethink safety measures designed
to protect the occupants of extremely tall buildings.
• Among these special types of safety features found at the Burj Khalifa building are
stairways reinforced with fireproof concrete.
• Recognizing that it’s unreasonable for building occupants to walk down 160 flights of
steps in the event of a major emergency, specially constructed refuge areas are found
on roughly every 25 floors. (9 in total)
• Separated from the building’s main structure by a “two-hour fire-resistant
construction”, the refuge areas are air-conditioned and pressurized to mitigate the
migration of smoke. The refuge areas are designed on a “defend-in-place” strategy,
wherein occupants are isolated and protected from danger nearby, or allowed to
stop and catch their breath in a protected environment on the way down in the event
of a full building evacuation.

14. Environment Friendly
Water heating
The Burj utilizes solar power 378 panels each with an area of 2.7sq.m were installed. These panels have
the ability to heat 140,000 lit of water when supplied with just 7hrs of day light. This is equal to 32,000KW
of energy provided .
Air ventilation provided at the top reduces the energy consumption. Air at the top of the building is
cooler, has low density and relatively humid. Its ideal for ventilation. Less energy is required to maintain
the comfortable condition

15. • The Burj Khalifa team partnered with Honeywell Building HVAC
system.
• The OBS software as a service solution involves collating real-time
field data, pushing this data to the Honeywell Sentience IoT
Platform, identifying anomalies, and running smart algorithms for
predictive and prescriptive maintenance of the building’s
mechanical assets.
• This service has enabled Burj Khalifa’s maintenance team to
transform from a traditional planned and preventative
maintenance regime to a predictive maintenance program for
mechanical systems, which is also known as a Reliability Centered
Maintenance (RCM) approach.
• At the core of OBS is Honeywell Sentience, a cloud-based IoT
platform that delivers secure big data capabilities for all of
Honeywell’s connected solutions. The platform allows Burj Khalifa’s
facility managers to use building data analytics for predictive and
prescriptive maintenance.
• Honeywell highlighted that the pilot has resulted in a significant
reduction in preventative mechanical maintenance tasks and an
overall 40% reduction in total maintenance hours for mechanical
assets, while improving the availability to 99.95%, enabling a
significant reduction of unplanned reactive maintenance.
• Burj Khalifa also uses Honeywell’s EBI system, a technology that
provides a unified view of building systems and increases the
connectivity of smart devices to improve efficiency, increase
responsiveness and maximize operational control. With access to
real-time facility data, Burj Khalifa’s facility management team is
now able to detect incidents faster, respond more quickly and
mitigate any impact, more cost effectively

16. OCCUPANT SAFETY
To further ensure safety, the Burj is equipped with a sophisticated home
automation system. Featuring multi-alarm sensors in all rooms that are tied into
LCD displays located in refuge areas and residential units throughout the building,
the automated system can monitor and display emergency information to all
occupants if needed. In addition, an Arabic/English voice alarm communications
system is in place to alert all building occupants of emergency events.
Technology enhances comfort of Burj building occupants
In addition to the security management solution, Johnson Controls installed low-
voltage systems that enable many of the high-end amenities enjoyed by tenants
and residents. The nearly 900 residences of the Burj feature E-Home, a smart home
technology installed by Johnson Controls. Each residence is equipped with a single
control system that interfaces with lighting, curtains, HVAC, home theater and
security management. Similar controls are installed in the hotel’s 324 guest rooms.

17. If an unauthorized person accesses a secure area, the building sub-systems,
including cameras and intercoms, are immediately activated. If a fire is detected,
the airflow system will automatically deactivate to confine or smother a fire.
Audio/visual systems, including project screens and video displays, and
conferencing systems are installed throughout the tower.
A two-way radio system allows facility and hotel management to communicate
with maintenance and security personnel throughout the building.

18. Architects- J. J. Pan & Partners
Location- No. 27, Wende Road, Guishan District,
Taoyuan City, Taiwan 333
Area- 36600.0 sqm
Project Year- 2013
Building Contractor- Chung-Lin General Contractors,
Ltd. Hao Chih Construction & Engineering Co., Ltd
Structural Consultant- Far Exp Engineering
Consultants
MEP Consultant- Yuan Heng Electrical Engineers
Office
Interior Consultant- JJPan, Shaper Park Interior
Design
Landscape Consultant- JJPan
Advantech Linkou Campus Phase 1

19. Phase I: Office
Building and
Intelligent
Greenhouse
Phase II:
Manufacturing
and Distribution
Center
Phase III:
Innovative R&D
Department and
Employee
Recreational
Center.

22. 1
2
3
4
5
• BEMS
• INTELLIGENT AGRICULTURE
• HR AND VIDEO MONITORING
• TAILORED SERVICES

23. PARKING GUIDANCE
LIGHT
MANAGEMENT
CAR SEARCHING
SYSTEM
Starting with the intelligent parking application, after an employee books a meeting
room and inputs visitor information (license plate number, cell phone or e-mail
address), the system will automatically send a confirmation message, including a
building photograph and route map to the visitor.
The car license plate number will be sent to the car park’s recognition system to
allow it to identify and permit the visitor’s vehicle to enter.
Meanwhile, digital signs, integrated with the car park’s lights, will lead the visitor to
their assigned parking space.
Arrival information will be synchronously sent to employees so they can prepare to
greet their guest.
In addition to the car park entrance, the license plate recognition system is also
placed in front of the digital signs and at the parking spaces. The former is used to
check the vehicle identification in order to correctly display the direction information;
the latter helps the system rearrange empty parking spaces if the driver parks in the
wrong place.
These intelligent parking systems also implement energy efficient air quality
monitoring by installing many sensors and tying them in with the control program to
schedule the lighting and air extraction system. For example, vehicles come and go
frequently during rush hour; so at these times, the lighting will be kept on instead of
repeatedly switching on and off with each vehicle. Once rush hour is over the system
will return to normal operation and use sensors to detect cars entering and leaving
the lot, and provide enough light to illuminate the road ahead. This saves a lot of
energy as well as optimizing parking management.
MAIN MENU

24. SCENARIO CONTROL
LIGHTING
ROOM TEMPERATURE
AV SETTINGS
The meeting room also integrates digital signs to show the daily conference
schedule and adds scenario control to offer different modes such as video
conferencing, presentation, and whiteboard discussions for a range of needs.
HUMAN SENSING CONTROL
• Air conditioning and Lighting
• Human sensing controls and Intelligent HVAC utilise wireless sensing
devices detect the no. of people in a given area.
• By zoning and scheduling- 30% energy consumption SAVED!
MAIN MENU

25. DIGITAL SIGNAGE
SELF- SERVICE
SYSTEM
In the reception area, the interactive digital sign
display information such as: surrounding
introduction, conference room guide and QR code for
the product catalog so visitors can learn more about
Advantech’s corporate philosophy and product ranges
MAIN MENU

26. Through rainwater recycling and green
energy utilization (solar and wind),
Advantech introduces renewable
energy into the building.
Solar panels are installed on the roof
to block the sunlight and test energy
efficiency.
Rainwater will be stored and recycled
so it can be used for such functions as
flushing toilets and watering the
garden, and the elevated terraced
terrain near Linkou campus is a terrific
location to install wind turbines to
demonstrate Advantech’s wind power
solution.
MAIN MENU

27. Building materials used include brick cavity
wall, exposed concrete, steel truss, low-E
insulated glass and vertical shading panel.
Together they relate the interior functions
to the exterior and therefore enhance the
liveliness of the façade. Furthermore, an
intelligent greenhouse with sun-tracking
solar panels installed creates a space
enriched with natural lighting through its
environmental control system.
MAIN MENU

29. MAIN MENU

30. BEMS- The central control room- brain of the
iBuilding.
This service ready package includes hardware and
software such as SCADA and DDC control,
industrial PC and energy management system and
networks
Raw data- graphical information
Its statistical analysis function help customers to
find an optimised energy saving strategy and
allows management of multiple buildings along
regions (iLinkage) enhancing energy efficiency.
Apart from automated systems, solutions must
have the ability to monitor and carefully control a
building’s energy consumption. So, Advantech
applied a Web-based Building Energy
Management System (BEMS) in both campuses to
help the building management staff, even without
professional HVAC backgrounds, to effortlessly
analyze and improve the energy management via
an easy to operate Graphical User Interface (GUI).
MAIN MENU

31. INTELLIGENT
AGRICULTURE
• Automatic control systems are used
• Highly efficient resource management to
produce high value agricultural products
MAIN MENU

32. SMART
CARD
Access to parking, attendance, catering and
accommodation - HR system
INTELLIGENT
VIDEO
SYSTEM
Video system and high quality image analysis
It allows automated prompting in an emergency situation to
minimize risk and maintain safety in workspace
MAIN MENU

33. TAILORED SERVICES- CONSULTATION SERVICE
MAIN MENU

34. The End