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Intelligent Buildings

INTERNATIONAL TOWERS SYDNEY,

BARANGAROO SOUTH:

A NEW BENCHMARK FOR SMART BUILDINGS

JAMES PETERSON
Head of Asset Management & Operations The result is that the International Towers Sydney has set
Lendlease a new benchmark for smart building management and
innovation in tenant services. What makes this possible
DEVELOPED AND BUILT BY LENDLEASE, Barangaroo is an Open Building System Integration (OBSI) platform
South is Australia’s largest urban renewal development
project since the 2000 Olympics and one of the most
significant waterfront transformations currently underway
anywhere in the world. From the outset, Lendlease had
a vision to make Barangaroo South one of the most con-
verged, connected smart building projects in the world,
proving that intelligent building design can enhance the
tenant experience, mitigate energy costs, reduce oper-
ations and maintenance expenses while setting new
benchmarks for sustainability and overall financial perfor-
mance.

Comprising three iconic commercial office towers
and a total built-up area of three million square feet in
Australia’s first carbon-neutral community, International
Towers Sydney forms the core of the Barangaroo South based on the iviva software, which provides an unprece-
development. This mixed use, commercial, residential and dented level of integration between systems and business
retail development had the following project goals: processes across the three towers. Because it is an open
data platform, OBSI serves multiple stakeholders includ-
• Tenant empowerment ing tenants, building management teams, engineering and
• Operational efficiency commissioning teams and contractors. User interfaces
• Management by exception and operational dashboards are optimized for different
• Sustainability users, based on their role, thereby simplifying interactions
• Energy efficiency and allowing for efficient management by exception.
• Comparing actual to designed and modeled More importantly, there is easy access to data and con-
performance trol by tenants in real-time in one location with one log-in
• Capturing building data for current and future analysis and one graphics interface.

Its main challenges were typical for a development that With OBSI, tenants in International Towers Sydney can
was on a quest for the highest levels of sustainability and manage selected services themselves within their ten-
operational efficiency. These included integrating multiple ancies, such as after-hours air conditioning, access card
building systems from separate vendors using a variety management and comfort control as well as view key
of protocols into a cohesive whole. Change management information about the floors they occupy such as thermo-
had to be facilitated to ensure continuity of operations. graphs, lighting, security, utility consumption, waste and
Evolving systems had to deliver real efficiencies for each recycling, occupancy levels and alarms. There are over 200
stakeholder’s business requirements. daily users of the OBSI from the precinct’s key stakeholders

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