Commercial

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The Challenge

We define the commercial, or urban campus as a real-estate portfolio, established over time and comprising a wide spectrum of different building types, located in one or many sites – all with varying building technology systems. It needs to provide an accessible, comfortable, flexible yet controlled and secure environment for its tenants, so controlling and monitoring security, life and safety systems, HVAC etc are key priorities. An urban campus is primarily a commercial operation that contains offices, but also retail units, public areas, distribution and storage areas, restaurants and catering and data centres and secure operational centres and often has a requirement to be operational 24/7.

The traditional method of managing and controlling these facilities, involves using both in-house staff and maintenance contractors dedicated to each building. This approach, where staff need to be experts in the individual systems and technologies in the buildings in which they work, is fraught with corporate risk and increases operational costs.

The challenge is to provide flexible, efficient and integrated campus management with adequate safety and security, whilst maintaining costs, across such disparate property types and functions.

CDC meets this challenge. We are experienced in providing intelligent solutions for the urban campus, powered by Integra™. We provide flexible, efficient, intelligent and integrated management of all building sub-systems across a campus, providing the unique capability to identify any property (or part of a property) as a managed ‘zone’.

CDC’s Intelligent Urban Campus Management Solution

Hardware-independent, open-centralised monitoring system, designed to control and inter-connect disparate and proprietary sub-systems found in campus operational control environments, from a single control centre.
Rules-based, centralised management system enabling ‘management by exception’, with ability to group separate sub-systems together for optimum performance management.
Can be extended to manage multiple campus sites.
Response plans and event management guidance for campus operators eg Major Incident Management and low carbon energy plans.
Complete audit trail of all sub-system performance for management reporting, service level monitoring and performance analysis.

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Benefits

Major operational cost savings through centralised monitoring and management, eliminating need for multiple control rooms or individual sub-system monitoring stations.
Existing legacy sub-systems inter-connect with new developments, extending operational life span and eliminating major costs associated with sub-system replacement.
New sub-systems eg enhanced digital video recording technologies or vehicle management systems, easily integrated into existing management solution.
Ability to operate across geographically dispersed locations, nationally and internationally.
Incorporates all communication systems eg IP telephony, cell, wireless networks, SMS, email messaging etc.
Access to campus operational information in real time with relevant information available from single source.
Audit trail for powerful, unbiased ‘forensic’ analysis. Contributes to future planning design and supports corporate governance and best practice methods.
Flexibility to respond to changing demands of the urban campus and its population.

Commercial

The Challenge

CDC’s Intelligent Urban Campus Management Solution

Benefits

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