Buildy 2007 Finalists

ConnectivityWeek 2007 hosts the 4th annual Buildy Awards. The Buildy Awards is a unique opportunity to promote your peers, your company, or even yourself, as a leader in whole building integration and interoperability.

Whether the primary specialty is Access Control, HVAC, Lighting, Security, IT, the Buildy Awards recognize the individuals and organizations who have stepped up to the challenge of integrating a system into the entire scheme of a building. These individuals and organizations support the vision of networked building systems in which all the facility’s disparate systems are seamlessly integrated together to provide the building owner and manager greater value from their investment.

What does it mean to win a Buildy Award?

• The opportunity to promote your peers, your company, or yourself as a leader in whole building integration and interoperability
• Recognition as a leader in the building systems industry and an expert in true systems integration
• Promotion in all BuilConn communication efforts
• Announcements and exposure in all BuilConn media sponsor publications and Web sites
• The prestigious and recognizable Buildy Award for public display
• Use of the Buildy Award logo on company Web site or printed material

2007 Buildy Winners

Vision Award

David Mosby, Director of the Division of Facilities Management and Design and Construction (DFMDC) for the State of Missouri was presented the Vision award for implementing the following five initiatives:

David Mosby initiated a statewide integration project of 28 million square feet. The largest integration project of its kind involves creating 24/7 real-time connectivity to the multiple legacy control systems, power generation assets, power distribution systems, metering, chiller and steam plants that keep 1,000 facilities safe, productive and comfortable for the citizens and employees of the State.

Initiative Award

The ZigBee Alliance was presented the Initiative award for their promotion of the ZigBee wireless technology. As a global open standard, ZigBee is paving the way for dramatically different devices to communicate for the first time, while offering more control and convenience options than ever before. This year, the ZigBee Alliance began a new initiative to provide solutions for energy management and efficiency by addressing growing concern around the environment and predicted energy shortages. Numerous states and countries are pushing ultra-efficient new homes and buildings, and only ZigBee addresses such a broad challenge.

Best Integration Project

Constellation Energy was presented the Best Integration Project for their Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) project. WSSC serves as an industry model of how competitive markets can help customers lower their energy costs, reduce their overall electrical load requirements, and increase their use of renewable power through long-term green power agreements. It also represents the intrinsic value a competitive energy company like Constellation Energy can bring to retail customers and the kind of innovation that is possible in today’s market

In this project, Constellation serves as both systems integrator and energy supplier to provide total integration of WSSC’s energy portfolio through fully integrated demand side and supply side technologies.

For the past six years, WSSC has partnered with Constellation to reduce its energy and operational costs while increasing energy and operations efficiencies to meet the challenges of future demand. Structured as a Energy Procurement and Risk Management Contract, Constellation Energy is able to assist WSSC in managing their energy expense budget and reduce the variability of their energy spending every year. This is principally accomplished through the strategic purchasing of future blocks of power, which reduces electrical price risk and better manage the roller coaster of energy wholesale markets.

Best New Infrastructure Product

Gridlogix was presented the Best New Infrastructure Product for their Automated Enterprise Management (AEM) product. AEM is a Services Oriented Architecture that delivers specific real-time data to multiple departments within an organization and the supply chain that enables informed, fact based business decisions to be made.

AEM is a Web based application that delivers business metrics. In other words, AEM represents the data fusion platform that merges the real-time enterprise with an organization’s balance sheet, EPA compliance and social leadership initiatives. Maximizing the value from huge amounts of time sensitive data generated by the operations of facilities can only be realized if the underlying systems can deliver relative and specific actionable solutions to the right departments and people that can make a difference

Best New Wireless Product

Ember was presented the Best New Wireless Product award for their ZigBee wireless technology platform. Ember’s ZigBee wireless technology is being used in building automation, integrated home automation and advanced metering initiatives to help make our living and working environments safer, smarter, more comfortable and energy efficient. In the building automation market, Ember’s ZigBee system is the platform of choice for innovative and leading companies. Ember’s low-power ZigBee networking system is the comprehensive solution for all of building automation needs - reliability, easy installation of network nodes, low system costs and long battery life.

Best Intelligent Building

The Best Intelligent Award was presented to Pacific Control Systems LLC for their headquarters building in Dubai, UAE. This building is the Middle East's First Platinum Rated Green Building to promote the concept of environmentally friendly buildings in the region. Pacific Control Systems is also showcasing to the world its practical use of Solar Energy for producing 90 Tons of cooling. Today this project is the one and only certified Green Building in the Middle East and is truly pioneering the cause of Sustainable buildings and the Practical use of Solar Energy.

 

Listen to Podcast from the Buildy Awards Gala

 

How were the Winners selected?

Winners were voted on by BuilConn attendees on the first day of BuilConn, on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Announcement of the winners took place during the Industry Gala, Thursday, May 24, 2007 at BuilConn in Chicago, Illinois.

If you have any questions, please contact Frank Capuano at 505-301-5166 or via email at buildy@clasma.com.