Ashrae Journal - November 2008 - (Page B4)

Photo 1: The City Centre complex in the Toronto greater metropolitan area uses a Web-based BAS. BACnet Goes Green ® By Steve Tom, Ph.D., P Member ASHRAE .E., W hat do you do if you’re one of Canada’s largest integrated real estate firms, you own an 18 acre (7.3 ha) signature site with 800,000 ft2 (74 322 m2) of leasable area in one of the strongest office markets in Canada, and you want to provide existing tenants (including your own headquarters) and prospective clients with the most efficient, comfortable, and desirable work environment possible? You “Go Green,” of course. And you do it with BACnet®. The Go Green program was developed by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada (BOMA Canada) to recognize existing commercial buildings, which are using the best environmental practices in five key areas: • Resource consumption (energy and water use); • Waste reduction and recycling; • Building materials; B4 • Interior environment; and • Tenant awareness. Within these five areas 10 minimum requirements exist, and a building must meet or exceed all 10 requirements to be certified as a Go Green building. With its emphasis on energy audits and best practices in existing buildings the Go Green program is roughly equivalent to LEED®-EB certification. An additional requirement of the Go Green program is that the certification process includes an on-site visitation by BOMA. Morguard Investments wanted to Go Green with their City Centre complex. Located in Mississauga, Ontario, part of the greater Toronto metropolitan area, the complex consisted of four major office buildings with planned future construction of retail, office, and amphitheatre buildings. When it came to building automation, they realized that having multiple disconnected stand-alone systems would hardly qualify as best practice. Their goal was to integrate control of the HVAC, lighting, fire, access control, and security systems. “I’ve always had a dream of driving into a parking lot, swiping my security card, and having it automatiAbout the Author Steve Tom, Ph.D., P .E., is director of technical information at Automated Logic in Kennesaw, Ga. B A C n e t ® To d a y | A S u p p l e m e n t t o A S H R A E J o u r n a l November 2008

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Ashrae Journal - November 2008 Contents Commentary Industry News Meetings and Shows Feature Articles Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Building Sciences Feature Articles Sustainable Nature Center Emerging Technologies Special Products Washington Report Special Supplement: BACnet® Today BACnet® Goes Green Seeing the Light with BACnet® BACnet® on Campus BACnet® for Net Zero Analyzing BACnet® BACnet® at Xerox Campus BACnet® in Europe BACnet® for Green Library BACnet® at the University of Minnesota: Flexibility, Interoperability InfoCenter Product Showplace Classified Advertising Advertising Index

Ashrae Journal - November 2008

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