The retrofitting of an existing office building is the perfect moment to introduce smart building technology. While retrofitted buildings may not be as flashy or eye-catching as brand new ones, maintaining and improving older buildings is vital in creating more sustainable cities. Adding smart technology to older buildings can make them more energy efficient, more pleasant places to work, and better suited to 21st century flexible business practices.
This is something we at bGrid pride ourselves on, so when Alkmaar wanted to remodel their municipal office and use the opportunity to make their building smarter, they reached out to us for help. The aim was to transform the Alkmaar municipal building and make it a more unified and open workspace, both encouraging collaboration between employees and giving them a more modern and pleasant environment to work and socialise in.
bGrid worked with Alkmaar’s project team to implement a smart core in the building, used for climate & light control, space monitoring and optimization of the building. From this smart core came an end-user application that would make it easier to find their colleagues around the building or see which meeting rooms are available. Through this app, the facilities team could now also control the indoor climate (lighting, temperature, and more) and the use of space in the building.
Going forward, the bGrid technology would allow Alkmaar’s data science team to monitor temperature, humidity, lighting, and occupancy levels across the entire building. With bGrid’s help, they could then use this data to make the building even more energy efficient and save money. At the conclusion of the installation, Patrick Langendijk, project manager of the municipality of Alkmaar, said, “We now have a beautiful environment that our employees love working in. Over the next year, we will be collecting data and gaining insight on how we are using the building. This will help us to continuously improve the employee environment in terms of health and efficiency.”
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