Integrated Building Services

Abstract

To cater for increasingly sophisticated and discerning major businesses and corporations, modern office buildings have become more complex and their many services integrated. Integrated Building Services (IBS) can be defined generally as an array of facilities and services (sub-systems) which are provided for an office complex, a telecommunications centre, a data processing centre etc. and which are connected to, controlled, monitored and managed by a computerised system. In the last ten years, Telecom Australia has provided and installed several computer controlled building Automation systems for a number of large telecommunications centres in Australia. The systems are given the name of Local Monitoring and Control Systems (LMCS) and provide primary control and monitoring services in a localised area. The basic purpose of the LMCS is to monitor and control air conditioning systems, power supply and distribution including emergency generating systems, fire detection, security and other systems in the building complex. Telecom Australia has taken steps to meet the challenge of the new trend in this field and is particularly interested in the design of and innovation in intelligent buildings. A system specification to serve as functional briefing for building developers has been developed for use in deliberations on requirements for Telecom Australia's proposed corporate Head Office complex in Melbourne and other major office accommodation complexes.