COVID has increased the need for intelligent building systems to improve the indoor air quality and display that in the building. Also ne Smart building rating programs discussed.

1. Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 -
Executive Summary and Module 1
(caba.org)
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2. CABA Vision, Mission, Goals
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3. Intelligent Building Rating Systems.
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4. CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19: Leverage Technology
for Safer and Healthier Environments Research Report
4 Source: CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 Report

5. Areas to Focus on to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread in Buildings
Federal, state, and local government
regulations
Top Eight Focus Areas for
Workforce
Re-Entry
Shared, transparent, and efficient
communication
Healthy Building Standards
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing
(MEP) Safe-Start Strategies
Facilities management
Standalone, equipment-level technologies and
services
Optimizing a building’s sensor network
Workforce Productivity
5 Source: CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 Report

6. Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19 in Buildings
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Elimination of exposure
Selective Activity
Engineering Controls
Administrative Controls
PPE
Low
High
Effectiveness
of
Mitigation
Strategies
Stringent work-from-home policies
Building access restricted to critical workforce
9 foundations of a healthy building
Social distancing and reducing workplace density
Masks and other protective gear

7. Agenda
7 Source: CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 Report
What is a smart building?
History of Smart Building rating systems and certification
Developing Standards and Specifications
Current and Developing ratings systems and tools
Smart Buildings contribution to Post COVID occupancy

8. Smart Buildings – Networked, Intelligent, Adaptable…
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9. What is a smart building?
There have been numerous ‘Smart Building’ definitions offered by institutes, committees,
academia and commercial organisations.
Examples:
• CABA – provides owner, operator and occupant an environment which is flexible,
effective, comfortable and secure through the use of integrated technological building
systems
• TIA – uses an integrated set of technology, systems and infrastructure to optimize
building performance and occupant experience
2021 focus
• Digital and AI Technologies that enable services to provide human experience, improved
efficiency and well-being have moved to the forefront.
• The investment demand has become value centricity, operational alignment,
sustainability and carbon performance.

10. Established Building Rating Systems and Certification.
There are many well established Green and Energy Rating and Certification
systems in North America.
These include:
• USBGC – LEED tool
• GBI – Green Globes tool
• iiSBE – SB tool
• USEPA & USEDOE Energy Star program
• ASHRAE Energy Quotient

11. History of Intelligent Building Rating Systems. 2007
A trio of volunteers — David Katz, prime consultant with Sustainable Resources
Management; Frank Spitzer, technical consultant with IBI Group; and Jiri Skopek,
program developer with ECD Energy & Environment — known as The Building
Intelligence Quotient Consortium developed BiQ. The Appraisal Institute was a
founding member of the BiQ Advisory Committee. Continental Automated
Buildings Association (CABA) administered BiQ for its members until 2013.
CABA's Intelligent Building Programs
David Katz, Building Intelligence Quotient Consortium
Thomas M. Keel, Georgia Institute of Technology submitted papers to:
2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

16. • TOPICS
• Communications Infrastructure
• Design Considerations for Building Systems
• Building and Facility Systems
• Lighting
• Electronic Safety and Security Systems
• Audio and Visual Systems
• Other Systems:
• Asset Tracking
• Vertical Transportation Interfaces in Intelligent Building
• Proximity Detection
• Global Positioning System
• System Integration
• Commissioning
ANSI/BICSI 007-2020
Information Communication Technology Design and Implementation Practices
for Intelligent Buildings and Premises
Recent Developing Standards and Specifications

17. • 14. Facilities VOIP Telephones
• 15. Facilities WAP Wireless Access Points
• 16. Facilities Ethernet Jacks
• 17. IP Signage
• 18. AV System Panels
• 19. Water Management Systems
• 20. Elevator Control System Panels or Interface
Points
• 21. Fire Alarm Network Interface
• 22. Firewall Interface
• 23. Cloud Hosted Data Storage Systems
• 24. Cloud Hosted Automated Fault Detection
and Diagnostic Systems
• 25. IT Network SNMP Monitoring Host
• 26. Shades and Blinds
SECTION [25 00 10][13800] INTELLIGENT BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(iBMS)
1. Intercoms
2. Security Server(s) (Access Control, Video
Management)
3. iBMS Control Panels
4. iBMS Server(s)
5. iBMS Workstation(s)
6. Electric Meters
7. Power Monitoring Server(s)
8. Electrical Distribution Panels
9. Lighting / Shade Control Panels
10. Lighting / Shade Control Server
11. Work Order System Workstation(s)
12. Work Order System Server
13. Workplace Efficiency System Server
Recent Developing Standards and Specifications

18. A number of organizations and independent companies are offering a smart
building rating system. They have spent time and money on developing them
with their focus on the features they consider smart for their members and
clients. Generally the questions are to explain the technology and indicate the
value of the smart feature with a score. All the programs provide consulting
and assessments to verify the answers and to increase the purchase of smart
building technologies and the communications infrastructure they require to
make the building smart.
The recent smart building programs offered include:
• Wiredscore- relaunching as SmartScored
• Spire
• Smart Building Certification
• IB Index
• Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI)
• Building Intelligence Quotient 2.0 incorporating Model-IB
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

19. WiredScore (relaunching as SmartScore) designed their scorecard to ensure
your building is Functional, Flexible, and Future Ready for whatever comes into
the technology landscape. They formed a council consisting of the world’s most
advanced landlords, developers and businesses to define a global standard for
smart buildings and build a certification to serve both the owners and users of
buildings.
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools
.
Their guide has the following range of things that need to be considered and
properly planned for in order to build a modern connected office building.
1. Point of Entry(POE) Planning
2. Telecommunication Room Design and Security
3. Riser Planning
4. Electrical Resiliency
5. Mobile Planning and Optimization
6. Readiness and Access for Providers and Carriers
7. Tech Readiness
8. Innovation

20. Spire developed by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and now offered by UL
claims to be a holistic assessment that considers all the major aspects of what now constitutes
a smart building. It is based on input from real estate, architecture, engineering, construction
and ICT professionals, thought leaders and subject matter experts. TIA defined the following six
core criteria as the basis of an advanced smart building assessment program: It considers six
core criteria
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

21. University Collaboration. Smart Building Certification exists to make the world a better
place through scientific research to improve buildings to be more efficient, healthy,
smart, sustainable, and useful.
Smart Building Certification
Building a team of highly professional assessors
across the industry to support the process of
certifying buildings.
The assessment will cover:
Building Usage , Building Performance
Building Environment, Health, Safety,
and Security, User Behavior and
Collaboration
Integrative Design and Connectivity
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

22. IB Index
The International Intelligent Buildings Organisation in Australia is leading an industry
consortium to create an Intelligent Buildings Index (IB Index). It uses qualitative and
quantitative IB performance measures to rate a building’s relative intelligence, and
adopts literature review, stakeholder engagement and calibration against a global
spectrum of “smart” buildings.
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

23. Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI)
The smart readiness indicator is part of the revised Energy Performance
of Buildings Directive3 (EPBD) by the European Commission. A Smart
Readiness Indicator (SRI) for buildings shall provide information on the
technological readiness of buildings to interact with their occupants and the
energy grids, and their capabilities for more efficient operation and better
performance through ICT technologies. The SRI is expected to become a
cost effective measure which can effectively assist in creating more healthy
and comfortable buildings with a lower energy use and carbon impact and
can facilitate the integration of Renewable Energy Sources
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

24. Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

25. In 2012 CABA gave out 3 BiQ Awards at AHR expo event. In 2013 BiQ
Advisory Board Chairs, Tom Lohner and Chris Larry of TENG (now EXP)
suggested the following market, federal and socio-economic issues,
trends and requirements be addressed in the next version of the BiQ.
In 2019 the China Academy for Building Research that was developing
the China Smart Building Evaluation Standard asked the BiQ Group to
contribute to their Standard and agreed to collaborate with the BiQ Group
to update the BiQ 2.0 and to offer both programs for use in China.
In 2020 the BiQ Group began collaboration to adopt the use of Model-IB,
Smart Building Specification Development platform into BiQ 2.0.
Current and Developing Rating Systems and Tools

26. • Measurement and verification of building and sub-system performance
compared to original high-performance building specifications and/or optimized.
performance following retro or re-commissioning of systems
• Enable continuous commissioning by extracting real-time system data,
analyzing data and developing system metrics to assess on-going performance.
• Enable predictive maintenance management.
• Ability to participate in the Smart Grid.
• Employ wireless technologies in a cost-effective fashion to improve the
occupied environment and optimize energy consumption (HVAC and lighting).
• Enable sustainability reporting (Global Reporting Initiative)
• Provide a energy and performance metrics that enable continuous
improvements and energy reduction goals to be achieved
• Provide a foundation for the Net Zero energy building objective

27. Effective delivery and certification of Smart Buildings
• A successful Smart Building investment relies on a mixture of diverse skills,
risk understanding, effective design and communications.
• It is essential to engage a specialist consultant at the earliest stage and to
develop the smart champion that will establish their smart building
operations team.
• The consultant will ensure the building rating scheme selection is
appropriate, and that the certification aspiration, is realistic and achieved
(new build and refurb).
• Now with the POST COVID occupancy of buildings, concern for Indoor Air
Quality is paramount and the smart building will have the sensors for real
time measurement and a display of the IAQ showing it meets the new
ASHRAE guidelines
• The smart building expert will provide the engineering to minimize the
energy use and will structure the financial, environmental and well-being

28. Ventilation
Indoor Air
Quality (IAQ)
Thermal
Health
Moisture
Dust &
Pests
Safety&
Security
Water
Quality
Acoustics
Lighting &
Views
• The American Industrial Hygiene
Association (AIHA) emphasize the
importance of relative humidity
control.
• AIHA advises building managers
to hire a certified industrial
hygienist and other occupational
health and safety professionals to
review and assess the risks.
• Building owners must adopt
technology-based building
controls involving AI-driven
buildings, cloud-based remote
services and IoT-enabled sensor
networks to develop MEP safe-
start strategies
Foundations of a Healthy
Building
Along with basic mitigation measures it is critical for building owners to adopt and develop technology-based
MEP safe-start strategies prioritizing nice foundations of healthy buildings.
Implications for Technology and Resource Planning
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29. Optimizing HVAC Systems to Reduce COVID-19
Transmission and Improve Effectiveness
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30. Facility Managers’ Technology and Service Requirements
During the Pandemic
• Building health assessment
• Indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions
• Data driven services
• Health and wellness standards
30 Source: CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 Report

31. Intelligent Buildings Dictated by the “New Normal”
Retuning, recalibration and augmentation of
systems for reentry
Incremental checks, including re-certs
Frequent cleaning with enhanced standards
Space usage measurement technology for
occupant management and optimizing cleaning
with pathogen detection capability offsite
Retrofitting to no-touch systems, including entry
and access
Foot activated elevators (Toe-to-Go)®
Touch less fixtures and controls, faucets
Non-thermal, plasma technology to reduce cross-
contaminant risks (AirPHX) ®
Quality ventilation to reduce pathogens
Anti-microbial paints
Non-contact infrared sensors with integration on
mobile platforms
Clients delaying payments, projects, with wage
liabilities
Existing pool of FM workers under-prepared
Impeded supplies against greater demand
Buildings & Systems Recalibration
Reversing Open Offices Deep cleaning and sanitation of facilities
Touch-free & Contact-free Infrastructure Air Management, Health and IEQ Working Capital Shortage
Redesigning with adequate occupant distancing
Refurbishing office setups
Supporting hybrid workforce, WFH
31 Source: CABA Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19 Report

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33. Thank you for listening
Q&A
Contact Information
David Katz
Sustainable Resources Management Inc.
dkatz@sustainable.on.ca
Building Intelligence Quotient Group
dkatz@building-iq.com
Tel: 416-493-9232 Cell: 416-618-4651