Research Paper 2010

This report was put together as part of a class wide Green Building Resource Guide that our professor self publishes each year. This years guide is focused on direct energy production and control. I decided to focus on the building automation because a green building cannot exist without intelligence, which is the component BAS brings to a building. The future will be a connection of these intelligent buildings working together within a smart grid that is capable of maintaining equilibrium between energy production and consumption.

Building Automation Systems (BAS) are energy management system that controls and monitors energy use throughout a building at real-time and allows owners and tenants to make better decisions about the building's energy use. Unlike simple building controls, an automation system computes, controls, manages, communicates, programs and processes a variety of functions throughout a building from a single light to an entire ventilation system.