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Research Title: An Intelligent Building Classification System for Commercial Buildings in Singapore
The project aims to evaluate and classify commercial buildings using the Total Building Performance (TBP) approach. Energy and Intelligent Building (IB) performance are the two initial areas of performance pursued by the research team. Reconciliation of user interpretation and empirical assessment data is the final procedure in the evaluation of building intelligence and the appropriate classification of IB according to their characteristics. The reconciled output serves to produce the final rating for IB, and also for identification of strengths and areas for improvements.
In this way, building users, owners and other interested parties would be able to utilize the rating of a building per se, and understand the basis for such claims. In this regards, three categories of building classification are suggested, namely, (i) Preferred Standard Building, (ii) Intelligent Building, (iii) Advanced Intelligent Building. With the aid of this classification system, the match between the capacity of the building and the actual needs of users can also be more effectively determined. This can help the developers to provide a building that is desired and meet the actual requirements of users at a more reasonable cost. The potential overall construction cost was also examined to identify percentage saving for the three building classes as shown below in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Percentage Potential Cost Saving for the Three Building Classes
It clearly shows that cost saving decreases from about 6.5% to 4 % as the construction cost increases as the building becomes more intelligent and sophisticated. This is understandable because of the premium that has to be paid in order to achieve a building with better performance to cater to the demands and needs of the users.
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