B4 - Derek Zaccheo - Group A

For our project we are doing how office buildings will change in the future using Intelligent building technologies. We will look into this by looking into how  specific buildings utilize intelligent building technology in the first place and how we think they could utilize it within the next ten to fifteen years. We will also discuss how intelligent buildings can revolutionize the workplace and the construction industry leading us to design better buildings more efficiently. In the introduction to the paper we will discuss how we define office buildings and how we view their role in today's society. We will go into some recent history of office buildings by going into their construction history, their design history and their functionality. We will define intelligent systems and discuss what buildings we are choosing to analyze. The three office buildings we will be looking at are the Comcast Center, the One World Trade Center, and the Cira Center.

 For all three buildings mentioned above we will be looking at how they were constructed, what special, if any, techniques were used. Going more in depth for this process will be difficult as the information will likely be tough to find. We will describe current existing technologies that are being used in the buildings themselves. We will go through the current impact that these have on the occupants. Then we will go into what features we can expect to see that will improve these buildings and how these intelligent systems will affect the workplace, designers, and construction.

In our conclusion we will be discussing how other building information technologies that were not discussed earlier on in our paper could be used in other general office buildings. We will also reiterate and concisely summarize how the design and construction industries could be revolutionized by these changes as well as go into how patrons using these buildings will be impacted. We will then reiterate what technologies will be present and prevalent in the next 10-15 years.

The biggest challenge we will face by far is finding all of the information about the current buildings themselves. Sometimes these details can be tough to find and shrouded in secrecy. We chose this topic because it is very interesting and was something that this class got us thinking about. It directly ties into intelligent buildings since that's the focus of what we are talking about on the office buildings.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cira_Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Center_(Philadelphia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center

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