BUILDING SERVICES

INTEGRATION OF BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

 
 
1. WHAT IS A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM? 
A building management system is a computer system designed to keep track of, and control, the 
various systems in a building. These systems include: 
➢ Power - This includes usage monitoring and flow control to various parts of the building. 
➢ Climate control - Heat, air conditioning, and air circulation, are provided to the various parts of 
the building. 
➢ Building entry/exit - Door monitoring and access, intrusion sensor monitoring, and alarms within 
the various parts of the building are included. 
➢ Water (pumps) - This amounts to getting the water to the various floors within the building. 
➢ Elevators - Control, surveillance, and access to the cars in the building are included. 
➢ Lights - This provides automated activation/deactivation and power conservation of the many 
fixtures in the building. 
 
2. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO BE INTEGRATED? 
➢ What integrated means, in terms of a building management system, is that the building's system 
management capabilities were part of the building's initial design. 
➢ for example, an extension to a house, like another bedroom. This is something a lot of 
families consider when their needs change with time. If the bedroom were integrated, it 
would have been designed and built when the rest of the house was. It would exist when you 
moved in. 
 
3. Many benefits exist when a BMS is installed in a building, some of them are: 
➢ Possibility of individual room control 
➢ Increased staff productivity 
➢ Effective monitoring and targeting of energy consumption 
➢ Improved plant reliability and life 
➢ Effective response to HVAC-related complaints 
➢ Save time and money during the maintenance 
➢ Occupancy sensors allow automatic setback override during unoccupied periods as well 
as adaptive occupancy scheduling. 
➢ Lighting controls reduce unnecessary artificial lighting via motion sensors and schedules as 
well as by controlling daylight harvesting louvers 
➢ Controllers save water and energy by controlling rainwater harvesting and 
landscape irrigation 
INTEGRATION OF HVAC SYSTEMS 
Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for nearly 40% of the energy 
used in commercial buildings in the United States. Consequently, almost any business or 
government agency has the potential to realize significant savings by improving its control of 
HVAC operations and improving the efficiency of the system it uses. There are also considerable 
opportunities for significant energy savings through efficient, integrated design, especially at the 
building envelope. 
An integrated and efficient building envelope with appropriate window and glazing design can 
not only reduce the energy and operating costs of a facility, but can also reduce the size and 
cost of the HVAC system needed to maintain adequate building pressurization, good indoor air 
quality and a comfortable thermal environment for building occupants. 
An often overlooked component of the building envelope is the relationship of the roofing system 
with the large HVAC equipment that is often mounted on the roof. The integrated design process 
can provide the means to facilitate early consideration of wind loading, vibration, blast and 
seismic considerations pertaining to rooftop HVAC equipment. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
VIPUL SOLANKI 
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