B4: Week 5 Blog Post - Kevin Saldivar

There are many similarities between green building and intelligent building, but it is important to realize that both of these things are processes, and not just speaking about the structure itself.  Green building is defined by the US Green Building Council saying “…it is generally accepted as the planning, design, construction, and operations of buildings with several central, foremost considerations: energy use, water use, indoor environmental quality, material section and the building's effects on its site.”  This differs slightly from an automated buildings article which states an intelligent building “…starts with early planning in the design stage. In many ways, this mirrors the design and fulfillment of many green or LEED projects today, but it uses technology to provide for a superior space.”  Both of these processes begin with planning of construction and also consider the completed structure.  The green building process puts its focus into making the project sustainable and not creating a large carbon footprint.  The intelligent building process is mostly focused on being efficient in the early design stages.  This can also be incorporated into the green building early stages, where they seem to differ is the end product.  While green building has an end product that is sustainable, intelligent building is more open ended and can just be very efficient for a certain set of tasks.  Most of the time these tasks incorporate being green and LEED certification but are not limited to a “green” end product and is much more open ended.
Throughout the project the specifics of each process will be researched in more depth as well as targeting intelligent buildings that are not necessarily green.  The stages of each process will be investigated in more depth making sure to point out differences that may occur.   Research will be conducted in order to find projects that employ intelligent building technologies, but do not in conventional “green” ways such as sensors for lighting/hvac controls.  The overall product of each procedure will be discussed, focusing on the benefits of applying both intelligent and green building processes.


Comments:

Group B (Grig Rikki and Taylor):  Very detailed breakdown of your project.  I am interested in the results of your research on 3d printing concrete because this process seems almost the same as pouring concrete into molds.


Schwakoff:  Nice details and preliminary research done.  I am most interested to see about the logical faults that have occurred and the damage that may have occurred due to errors.  Also it will be interesting to see the way these flaws are being dealt with (other than just improving code).

Stephens:  I like your choice to explore drone usage, because when this class started I still did not see drones being very practical.  I think it is a smart idea to have drones used for maintenance and detecting problems.