New technology and developments have created significant opportunities for financial savings and operational benefits. The revolution of mobile technology has played a dramatic role in the way we operate on a daily basis. Cloud technology has especially impacted the potential for greater efficiency within the management of building infrastructure and systems.
For example, Awtad FM team use the cloud to store their records and as-builts, instead of having to wade through messy, disorganized, inaccurate or incomplete paper records. Cloud technology is also used to make these records accessible from anywhere in real time to our engineers to focus on higher priorities such as preventive maintenance and reducing response times for problems and service requests.
Tech driven energy management
On average, buildings consume about 30% of the world’s energy. Improving energy management in those buildings will go a long way toward conserving energy and saving money across the planet and sustainability. In our smart buildings use a combination of technologies to automate building management.
First, user interface controls the different variables of a building’s operation. Second, sensors are used to detect changes, such as the rise and fall of temperature or motion in a room, and feed that information to the application. Improving energy management by real-time data analysis and energy benchmarks to identify saving opportunities.
Building Envelope Technologies, Light Pipe Technologies, Cogeneration & Trigeneration, etc are some of emerging technologies. 70% of energy consumption is used in air-conditioning. Therefore, it is advised to adopt waste heat recovery technologies to recover the heat and an energy of 50 to 80% is recovered. The energy recovered can be further used for the heating or the cooling of the ventilation air that is being supplied to the building.