“Smart City” Lab: Buildings as Effective Habitat
In human activity at all times existed breakthrough trends that accumulate the most outstanding achievements in technology, science and creative work. It is quite fair to classify highrise structures and other unique facilities as the ones mentioned above. Their typical features are an extremely large abundance of complex technological equipment as well as urge of their designers to comply with the green standards, caused by the necessity of the enviromental impact mitigation.
The realization of such projects has clearly demonstrated the importance of modern building automation and control systems (BACS) that ensure stable steady operation of buildings’ engineering systems. They also maintain comfortable indoor environmental parameters and ensure energy-efficient equipment operating modes as well as reduce the level of polluting emissions. The information on BACS and their operation results is widely represented in the periodicals and web portals. However, to use modern BACS the personnel of the company responsible for the implementation of such projects needs to be highly-qualified.
In 2008 to be able to ensure the necessary level of staff training and to develop a building automation regulatory system the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MSUCE) founded the Educational Research Center of Information Systems and Structural Intelligent Automation or the “Smart City” Laboratory that was led by Doctor of Engineering, associate member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Professor Andrey Volkov. In December 2013 Professor Volkov was elected and appointed as the Principal of the MSUCE.
The “Smart City” lab runs 4 educational programs to train the students of the Department of Information Systems, Technologies and Structural Intelligent Automation (ISTSIA) and more than 150 specialists graduate from the lab every year. There are carried out 7 various 5-day advance training programs.
The laboratory has been very well assessed by the heads of the leading Russian and international Universities as well as the Moscow and state government attended the lab. President Vladimir Putin, who at that time was Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, during his visit to the MSUCE in 2011, highly praised the achievements of the lab.
If we do not consider the solid-cast framework, the building envelope and the roof, a modern building is a set of complex engineering systems that can only be developed by highly skilled professionals that skillfully put the acquired theoretical knowledge into practice. Energy- and resourceefficiency, environmental and integrated safety and security as well as the comfortable environment for both personal and professional lives are now design and construction priorities.
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Article by Vladimir Maksimenko,
Research Associate at the Educational Research Center (ERC) of Information Systems
and Structural Intelligent Automation with the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MSUCE)