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Press Release
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INTEGRATION EXPERTS AND VISIONARIES RECEIVE
BUILDY AWARD AT THE INDUSTRY’S ONLY EVENT FOR NETWORKED BUILDING SYSTEMS
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DALLAS, TEXAS—April 6, 2005—Chosen by more than 450 of their
peers, the four final Buildy Award winners representing the North
American organizations and individuals who best support the vision of
networked building systems emerged at the Industry Gala at BuilConn
2005, March 24, in Dallas, Texas. 2005 marks the second year for the
Buildy awards program that was designed to increase awareness of the
benefits of whole building integration and honor successful
implementation strategies.
Within the four award categories—Vision, Best New Product, Best
Integration Project, and Best Building—the winners are a dynamic
representation of all facets of the integration process and have all
demonstrated superior strategies for intelligent buildings.
"This year’s Buildy winners are an impressive representation of the
future of smart buildings, giving the industry a glimpse of the
technologies, products and strategies that will become a standard for
integrated and intelligent buildings," Anto Budiardjo, BuilConn
organizer, said.
Ken and Jane Sinclair, editors and owners of AutomatedBuildings.com,
were presented with the Vision award for their vision of whole
building integration and interoperability through advocacy, promotion,
educational and training endeavors. AutomatedBuildings.com is a
dedicated Web site with the most thorough, extensive and respected
source for information on integrated and interoperable building. With
help from Ken's wife, Jane, AutomatedBuildings.com is the "must visit"
site for all systems integrators that includes links to research,
interviews with industry leaders, vendors, and the most up-to-date
information in the industry. Ken is also the monthly building
automation columnist for Engineered Systems magazine. In addition, Ken
and Jane also find time each year to put on a series of free
information seminars at the AHR Expo for ASHRAE. During his Energy
Manager days for the British Columbia Buildings Association, Ken was a
founding member and a past president of both the local chapter of
Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) and the Vancouver Island Chapter
of ASHRAE. Ken has overseen 100+ computerized control conversions,
working closely with the building operators to insure acceptance of
this new technology.
The Best New Product award was presented to Tridium, Inc. in honor of
the Niagara Appliance, a complete device-to enterprise (M2M) solution
for manufacturers of equipment systems such as boilers, lighting
systems, refrigeration, air handlers, chillers, etc. Manufacturers are
under increasing pressure to provide customers with a wide range of
new capabilities – built-in Internet connectivity; integration with
building automation, factory automation, and other control systems;
the ability to remotely monitor installed products to provide better
customer service and new business opportunities; and the creation of
service bureau software applications to support their installed base,
etc. Niagara Appliance helps manufacturers achieve these goals,
quickly and easily with a custom-tailored solution built on the proven
Niagara Framework.
Presented to building consultant ControlNET for the Whirlpool
Corporation in Benton Harbor, Mich., is the Best Building award in
honor of the most progressive building technology supporting the
vision of whole building integration. The Whirlpool Corporation wanted
to upgrade its central data center from a mainframe environment to a
server environment and install redundant backup systems for power and
chilled water to make sure the mission-critical facility never failed.
With plans for integrated controls to ensure better maintenance and
rapid emergency response, they successfully overcame the challenge of
tying together 15 types of equipment from multiple manufacturers, each
of which used controls with multiple protocols.
Finally, the Best Integration Project award was presented to
MacDonald-Miller for the Tacoma Financial Center in Tacoma, WA, in
recognition of the successful integration of a wide array of building
systems and their operation over a corporate IT infrastructure.
Systems integrator MacDonald-Miller successfully unified the disparate
building systems at the Tacoma Financial Center into an IP-centric
platform all while maintaining the customer's existing investment in a
Barber-Colman NW 8000 system. Using the Richards-Zeta graphical
programming software, the new infrastructure normalizes all disparate
data from the existing system as well as all data for the RTUs,
chillers and AHUs and distributes data via a customized Web site. The
facility can now bring further value to the facility such as
measurable energy savings, verifiable ROI, improved indoor air
quality, increased system dependability, and decreased maintenance
costs.
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About BuilConn
BuilConn is a four-day forum uniting integrators, manufacturers,
distributors, consultants and technologists from the disparate
disciplines of the building systems industry to learn and discuss the
trends, technologies and their applications for tomorrow's intelligent
buildings. From Access Control and HVAC to Lighting, CCTV and IT,
BuilConn is the only network infrastructure and integration event
focusing on bridging the gaps between these sectors to deliver true
Networked Building Systems.
The third annual event was held in Dallas, Texas, March 21-24, 2005 at
the Adam’s Mark Hotel Dallas. For further information, please visit
www.builconn.com.
About Clasma, Inc.
Clasma, Inc. is a Dallas-based marketing, conference and media company
specializing in providing services for the building systems and device
connectivity industries. Clasma, Inc. is made up of marketing,
technical and communication professionals who have between them
decades of industry experience in product development and marketing.
Clasma works with a vast network of associates around the world to
provide its valuable services to the building systems industry. For
additional information, please visit www.clasma.com.
Contact:
Heather Deal
Clasma, Inc.
Office: 972-865-2233
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