Session Overview
Procuring Connected Intelligent Buildings
Track: Planning & Procuring Connected Buildings
Wednesday May/23/2007
15:15 - 16:30
While the world has been building buildings for the past centuries, the new opportunities surrounding Information technology for buildings are bringing about new ways to specify and procure buildings.
With a process that is geared to first understand the owner's needs, experts will present at this session a new way of looking at the procurement process of buildings; from the design, engineering, construction and eventually operation and refurbishment phase of the building.
Building owners frustrated or challenged with the ability to successfully building effective facilities should consider this session as a way to explore new ideas and ways to go about the construction process.
Lynette Ertel
Director of Technology Consulting Services
Mazzetti & Associates
Panelist
Presentation (pdf)
Convergence vs Collision: Lessons From the Field
Today’s hospital systems increasingly reside on either a proprietary network or the hospital’s own backbone. They are frequently interfaced with one another, passing ever-larger packets of data and generating not only a greater need for such things as security, bandwidth, storage and overall system management, but enhanced opportunities for documentation, reporting and, potentially, process re-engineering.
“But whose system is it?” In the case of building systems, the role traditionally played by facility engineers has begun to “bleed” into the realm of the IT department. And the IT department is experiencing a growing dependence upon engineers for routine revisions of cooling and power requirements as low voltage and IT systems merge into technology “super closets”.
This session will describe how one Sutter Health facility, located in Sacramento, California, is addressing the future through a re-analyis of their building system needs, including migration from an existing system during a complex phased renovation project. Discover how current functionalities are being expanded to include far broader hospital-wide system oversight, and how the addition of these capabilities has challenged the Master Project team, the PO&M department, the IT department and even the clinical leadership to establish new methods for collaborative planning and long-term support.
