Level:	MSc(Eng)
Duration:	One semester
Contact Hours:	2.5 hours per week
Prerequisite:	None
Calendar Entry:	Basic concepts and principles of smart building technology; essential knowledge and skills in its applications; key success factors of adopting smart building technology; smart lighting solutions, HVAC systems, security systems and building management; smart cities and practical examples.
Assessment Methods:	Examination (60%), Continuous Assessment (40%)
Course Website:	http://ibse.hk/IDAT7219/
Course Co-ordinator:	Dr. Sam C. M. Hui (cmhui@hku.hk), http://ibse.hk/cmhui

A smart building is a structure based on advanced digital and control technologies that uses hardware, software, and connectivity to manage HVAC, lighting, security and other building services systems so as to create a comfortable and safe environment for occupants. Smart building technology can be used to monitor, analyse, and optimise the way buildings run in order to enhance productivity, efficiency, safety and sustainability. This course will introduce the basic concepts and principles of smart building technology with the aim to develop the essential knowledge and skills in its applications.

Educational Objectives:

• To introduce the basic concepts and principles of smart building technology
  
• To develop students with the essential knowledge and skills in its applications
  
• To appreciate the key success factors of adopting smart building technology

• To describe and apply the basic concepts and principles of smart building technology
  
• To understand the essential knowledge and skills in its applications
  
• To evaluate the key success factors of adopting smart building technology

• Bakker R., 2020. Smart Buildings: Technology and the Design of the Built Environment, RIBA Publishing. [HKALL]
• Casini M., 2016. Smart Buildings: Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology to Improve Energy-Efficiency and Environmental Performance, Woodhead Publishing, Duxford, UK. [HKALL]
  
• CIBSE, 2008. Building Control Systems, CIBSE Guide H, 2nd ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford. [HKALL]
  
• Clements-Croome D., 2014. Intelligent Buildings: An Introduction, Routledge, United Kingdom. [HKALL] https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203737712
  
• Habibi S., 2020. Building Automation and Digital Technologies, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, MA & Kidlington, UK. [HKALL] https://doi.org/10.1016/C2019-0-03708-9
• Hossain M. F., 2021. Global Sustainability in Energy, Building, Infrastructure, Transportation, and Water Technology, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. [HKALL] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62376-0
• Hu M., 2021. Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environments, Springer, Cham, Switzerland. [HKALL] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51292-7
• Jadhav N. Y., 2016. Green and Smart Buildings Advanced Technology Options, Springer, Singapore. [HKALL]
  
• Kumar T. M. V. (ed.), 2020. Smart Environment for Smart Cities, Springer, Singapore. [HKALL] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6822-6
• Litiu A. et al., (eds.), 2017. Introduction to Building Automation, Controls and Technical Building Management, REHVA Guidebook no. 22, REHVA, Brussels, Belgium. [HKALL]
  
• RIBA, 2024. Smart Building Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London. https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/smart-building-overlay-to-riba-plan-of-work
  
• Sinopoli J., 2016. Advanced Technology for Smart Buildings, Artech House, Boston. [HKALL]
  
• Steel C., 2019. Code of Practice: Building Automation and Control Systems, Institution of Engineering and Technology, London. [HKALL]
  
• Wang S., 2010. Intelligent Buildings and Building Automation, Spon Press, London and New York. [HKALL]
• Wen J. T. & Mishra S., 2018. Intelligent Building Control Systems A Survey of Modern Building Control and Sensing Strategies, Springer International Publishing, Cham. [HKALL]
  

Useful Websites:

• Asian Institute of Intelligent Buildings (AIIB) https://www.aiib.net/
• Asia-Pacific Smart Green Building Alliance (APIGBA) 亞太地區智慧綠建築聯盟 https://apigba.org/
  
• Association for Smarter Home & Buildings (ASHB)(previously Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)) https://www.ashb.com/
  
• Automated Buildings http://www.automatedbuildings.com/
• Become a Smart Building Specialist: A Promising Career in Construction Technology https://www.constructionplacements.com/smart-building-specialist-career-guide/
  
• Smart building jobs in Hong Kong https://hk.jobsdb.com/smart-building-jobs
• Smart Buildings Show https://smartbuildingsshow.com/