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1. University English for Higher
Diploma Students I
Intelligent Buildings

2. Intelligent Buildings
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Features
Advantages
Drawbacks
Conclusion
Q&A

3. Intelligent Buildings
• Features
• Clements Coombe (2004)

4. Intelligent Buildings
Advantages
Energy Costs
Chan & Lam (2010)
Intelligent
Conventional

5. Intelligent Buildings
• Features
• Advantages
• Drawbacks
– construction costs
– careful management
– technical problems
• Conclusion
• Q and A

6. Intelligent Buildings
High Construction Costs
• Morrison and Roberts (2007)

7. Effective Presentations
Technical Problems
Preston (2008)
“The central computer system works perfectly
meaning an average wait of only 34 seconds
for an elevator passenger; until the central
computer system stops working perfectly….”

8. Intelligent Buildings
• Advantages
• Drawbacks
• Intelligent Buildings in Hong Kong
– high construction costs
– careful management

9. Intelligent Buildings
Reference List
Chan, S., & Lam, K. P. (2010). Intelligent and
conventional buildings. Architecture Today, 15(8).
Clements Coombe, K. P. (2004). Features of a building.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lam, J. K., & Preston, T. (2005). Environmental benefits
of intelligent buildings. Cambridge: Unicorn Press.
Morrison, B., & Roberts, M. (2007). Comparing buildings.
Hong Kong. Imperial Press.
Preston, P. (2008). Technical problems in the intelligent
building. Modern Buildings,24(4), 24- 32.

10. Intelligent Buildings
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