Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas integrated a building automation system (BAS) with a lighting control system with the construction of a 76,000-square-foot, 72-bed, three-story expansion, according to an article on the Consulting-Specifying Engineer website.
The design integrated a BAS with a lighting control system using a BACnet interface between the two systems. While the building was awarded U.S. Green Building Council LEED Platinum and many factors made this possible, the lighting and HVAC controls played a large role in accomplishing this goal, the article said.
Patient rooms have a variety of control sequences depending on occupancy. Each patient room is equipped with a low-voltage manual switch that allows for the rooms to be put in occupied or unoccupied mode.
The system also includes the ability for future integration of the occupied or unoccupied mode automatically with the hospital’s billing software system, the article said.
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