The building is an innovative office center in Amsterdam that delivers the name of the world’s most intelligent building. Its architectural goal is to create an intuitive, comfortable environment for employees who want to inspire sustainable building design in the world. The building with 40,000 square meters of office space opened in 2015 and received the highest score (98/63) from the BREEAM (Building Quality and Building Quality Standards).
The key to the sustainable design of this building is the design of the Philips Corp. lighting system, which allows employees to adjust the light and temperature of their work environment with the help of their smartphones. The system can also provide information on activities in the workspace that will help reduce the CO2 impact.
How smart is the edge?
The building is made smart, which knows where you live, what your car is, who you meet today and how much sugar you pour in your coffee. You’ll be connected to your mobile app from the very minute you wake up to check your daily routine; the world’s most intelligent building will guide you to your car park and find a table for you because no one in the work desk It does not matter. Your workspace is based on your schedule: a sitting table, an outpatient table, a work booth, a meeting room, a table in the balcony or a room. Wherever you go, the program knows what kind of light and temperature you prefer, and it prepares the environment as you like.
But what is the sense of sustainability, which today is an important element in building architecture? Sustainability is, in fact, the efficiency and comfort that the entire building provides to its users so that they can easily work in a healthy and constructive environment. A healthy and inspiring environment attracts talent and leads to more employee satisfaction. An environment such as an old building reduces maintenance and energy costs, reduces illness and increases creativity, and ultimately all of this has the same meaning: better financial performance.
Key features of the world’s most intelligent building
As the world’s most intelligent building, it consumes 70% less power than other office buildings. The ceiling and south facade are the largest photovoltaic panels in all of Europe. Its energy-saving thermal energy system provides all the energy needed for cooling and heating, and its thermal efficiency increases dramatically by connecting a heat pump to this source, but this is not all that is possible. Motion, occupied space, lighting levels, humidity, and continuous temperature are measured using intelligent technology-including LED lighting through Ethernet-building systems to maximize productivity.
Some of the key features of this building are as follows:
Rotation
The rotation of the building is based on the direction of the sun. Atrium, the north light of the day is being built for the building, and the solar panels on the southern side are shielded from the sun and protect the workspace.
Façade
Each view is designed in a unique way according to its rotation and purpose:
- Load bearing walls in the south, east, and west have smaller entrances to provide thermal and shading capacity, and fixed opening panels for air conditioning.
- The winders are designed in the southern view of the sun’s sunlight, providing a shadow for office spaces and reducing the heat of the sun’s rays.
- The solar panels in the southern view provide a stable and sufficient power supply to illuminate all smartphones, laptops and electric cars.
- The northern views are largely transparent and use thicker glasses to reduce the sound of the street.
- The atrium is quite transparent and provides a view of a river and allows the sustained light to enter the interior.
Smart lighting
An LED lighting system powered by Ethernet, with more than 30,000 integrated sensors for continuous motion, space occupancy, brightness, humidity, and temperature, to automatically adjust energy consumption.
Sunroof
A 65-thousand-pound solar panel in the views and roof of the building, as well as at the ceiling of the buildings of the University of Amsterdam, has been used to provide remote district energy.
Energy recovery
The atrium is considered to be an area between workspace and outdoors. The excess air ventilation of the offices is again used to ventilate the air of the atrium space; then the ventilated air goes back to the atrium, that is, from where it passes through a heat exchanger to use any kind of heat.
Rainwater Recovery
Rainwater is collected in the roofs, and for greenhouse flushing, the balconies are used in the corridors and other gardens of the building.
Thermal energy source
The two deep wells reach 129 m into an aquifer, which allows thermal energy differentials to be stored deep inside the basement.
Brightness through Ethernet
Philips has launched the LED lighting system in the world’s most intelligent building. The LED lighting system (LOE) is powered by Ethernet and is 100% IP based. This makes it possible to control the lighting system with the computer so that changes can be made quickly and quickly without opening suspended ceilings. The system employs approximately 6500 LEDs connected to create a “digital ceiling” in this 15-story building. Using the integrated sensors at 3,000 of these bright lights, powered by Philips Lighting Management software, the system will make it possible to receive, store, share and distribute information throughout the space. Using this software, these data can be viewed and analyzed, and energy management and maintenance operations are managed with the help of it.
Mobile Phone Application; Workspace Personalization
Each employee will be connected to the building with a program installed on their smartphone. They use this program to find park space, empty desks or colleagues, report problems to the facility team or even move inside the building. They can adjust the light and temperature of each place they choose to work with. The program knows what kind of brown they like and observes their energy consumption to be alert to it.
