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Net-zero energy buildings are necessary and technically possible. But, because of cost and the technical sophistication required, few buildings have received this exalted status. So, how do architects, engineers and building designers improve their understanding of the issues and technologies necessary to get to zero? By attending this year’s Innovation Conference. We’re bringing attendees more advanced systems and materials, more stimulating real and hypothetical case studies, and speakers with unique, provocative points of view.
The Big Picture
Smart Cities of the Future, Where No Building is An Island
Although some buildings can collect and store information about how they are using the energy that is delivered to them, most cannot use that data to be more efficient in the present or future, nor can these buildings share such intelligence with each other. With little data and no means of analyzing or acting upon it, it is extremely difficult to balance the supply and demand of resources necessary to operate cities. Taken together these inefficiencies cause system-wide energy losses on a massive scale. Under these conditions it is difficult to put surplus power into the grid in a useful way, even if we do go to the trouble of giving buildings the capacity to generate it.
IBM Director of Corporate Strategy Dr. Colin Harrison¹s keynote address will help us imagine a time in the near future when intelligent buildings will collect and share critical data across networks in real time. Such systems will use building-integrated devices to create data on energy loads, help us understand user behavior, even the effects of microclimate on energy consumption. This will enable us to cut peak-demand loads, distribute resources where they are most needed, and to operate the grid efficiently, so we can live within an energy budget that is sustainable by our global society.
IBM’s Director of Corporate Strategy Dr. Colin Harrison’s keynote address will help us imagine a time in the near future when intelligent buildings will collect and share critical data in real time to make cities they’re in vastly more energy efficient.
The Case Studies
- Merck Serono, Geneva, Switzerland
- IDeAs Z² Net Zero Office Building, San Jose, California
- The Okhta Tower in St. Petersburg, Russia
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