05.2019 Cover Story
Smart Architecture Lights the City
Far Eastern Magazine / Editorial Room
In recent years, the mainland of China has played an important role in the global competition. As an important financial, trade and shipping center, Shanghai has also shown abundant vitality, and numerous high-rise buildings have repeatedly refreshed the city's skyline. However, with the rise of Internet of things (IoT), the competition of cities is not only in the height of buildings, but also in the degree of wisdom, in which wisdom architecture is the core of wisdom city. This issue of "Cover Story" will introduce you to a new architectural star that will appear in Shanghai at the end of this year.
Brilliant Turn to Achieve "Story" Business Building
At a building site on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, construction workers are busy shuttling inside and outside for the renovation of the building to be completed this year. Under the sunshine, the glass curtain wall just completed last month is shining. The concave curve design on the riverside elevation skillfully intersperses and reflects the magnificent sky and river scenery. It attracts many passers-by to stop and discuss. It also makes people curious about its interior design and future use.
Speaking of the new building, there is actually a special story. Fifteen years ago, this is the site of the "Yali Ready Mixed Concrete Factory" owned by Far Eastern Group. Because the concrete produced has been listed as "Shanghai Quality Building Material Brand", many builders are queuing for it every day. In preparation for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the site was requisitioned and converted into a Japanese Pavilion by the government; after the Expo, the land was released again, because it is located directly in front of Bailian Jing Wharf on the Huangpu River, and can communicate with Shanghai Disney by water. In addition, it is adjacent to the Expo Axis, the China Pavilion of the World Expo and the Mercedes-Benz Cultural Center Pavilion. It has an advantageous geographical position and can be regarded as a collection of commerce, culture and entertainment. Transportation as a whole, is a hot area for the headquarters of internationally renowned enterprises. In order to buy the land, Douglas Hsu not only participated in the bidding in person in 2012, but also participated in the planning and design in the early stage of construction, the selection of materials in the construction process and the progress of the project. We hope to build Far Eastern Group's first headquarters building in the mainland on this meaningful base.
The new building covers an area of 40,126 square meters, and is under the responsibility of Yuan-Ding Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. of the Group. Far Eastern Group provides design, Far Eastern Construction Co., Ltd. supervises construction, and Far EasTone Telecommunication layouts intelligent buildings. Under the guidance of the group Douglas Hsu and Yuan-Ding Zheng Chairman, the companies have worked together to bring into full play. During the construction process, there were also some unexpected episodes: temporary office, dormitory and other facilities suddenly appeared along the river pier, which destroyed the overall landscape style. After Shao Ruihui Presidents and Douglas Hsu actively coordinated with government units, they rebuilt the 21 kilometers Golden Coast Walkway of the World Expo, which now stretches along the East Bank of Huangpu River, so as to enhance the location advantages, and also allow passers-by to enjoy a broader view along the river. Wild. In addition, Shao Presidents is personally leading the team, strictly controlling the quality, time limit and budget cost of the three objectives, so that every detail of this 14-storey, underground three-storey modern top-level business office building exudes the unique diligence, prudence and innovation of Far Eastern Group. Among them, B1 is an employee restaurant, B2 and B3 are planned as parking lots. In view of the fact that there is only one Expo Avenue between the building and the Huangpu River, in order to strengthen the link between the building and the natural environment, the project team specifically refers to the concept of Suzhou gardens, and designs a transparent winter garden along the entrance of the river bank, and uses spray and lighting techniques to create the morning and evening riverside atmosphere. Walking in the meantime, you can see the waterfall jumping in the forest, with the evergreen vertical green wall, which enriches the sense of spatial hierarchy.
The progressive bamboo forests on both sides of escalators make people feel like entering a dense forest. Take the escalator to the reception area and group exhibition area on the 2nd floor. Apart from having a rest and conversation among the green treetops, you can also enjoy the excellent Huangpu River view. Employees and visitors can then go to the relevant floors through the intelligent reception and management process. As far as the third floor is the meeting room and staff fitness center shared by the group, the fourth to fourteenth floors belong to the office floor. It is worth mentioning that the roof garden of the building is also interwoven with hedgerows and lawns composed of various shrubs, creating a concise and layered landscape space and two recreational platforms.
In the exterior style of the building, the whole building is elegant and bright with silver as its keynote, like a diamond shining on the Bank of Huangpu River. In the morning, the first ray of sunshine of Far Eastern Group is reflected through the glass curtain; at night, the brilliant lights are reflected on the river surface, which is another scene. Its concise lines and transparent colors also set off the rich colors in winter garden. The full greenness not only provides rich sensory experience for the garden to stop inside, but also becomes the focus of external lingering viewing and appreciation.
Make "smarter" energy-saving buildings by careful calculation
Apart from the architectural style and the harmony with the surrounding natural landscape, Far Eastern Group Continental Headquarters also has the connotation of low-carbon green. Starting from the concept of Sustainability Development, the project team takes the "Samsung Green Building Evaluation" in Mainland China as the benchmark. In the construction process, advanced energy-saving and environmental protection equipment is used. At the same time, considering the variability of the use function, the interior space partition is also selected as many as possible to reuse partitions or low walls, so as to avoid unnecessary demolition and waste of materials. Moreover, the whole building has introduced advanced curtain walls and mechanical and electrical systems to meet the requirements of green building design.
Since more than 75% of the main space of the new building has been introduced into natural lighting and the supplementary lighting part, the LED light source is fully used, and the central monitoring system is used to control the lighting status of each floor. The staircase is also equipped with personnel sensing elements to control the lighting. At the same time, according to the sunshine time and brightness sensor, the lighting brightness and opening time are adjusted according to the time schedule of each area. In case of lamp failure, the system can also actively notify, save manpower to inspect and report the operation, and shorten the repair time, so as to achieve the best use and management of electricity. Even on the ground floor, the project team is not sloppy, delicately using light conduit facilities to introduce natural light and improve comfort.
According to statistics, the power consumption of air-conditioning equipment accounts for the top of the main energy consumption of commercial buildings. In order to prevent the new building from becoming a power-eating monster, the project team specially designed a central monitoring system, which can intelligently adjust the indoor temperature, air quality, and the start-up and operation time of the mainframe of each system to reduce unnecessary energy consumption. In addition, energy consumption can be counted by energy meters installed in cold and hot water pipelines, and cold and heat sources can be controlled to save energy consumption and operating costs.
In the use of water resources, besides setting up domestic sewage drainage system and rainwater drainage system, selecting water-saving equipment such as faucets and toilets that meet the requirements of green buildings, renewable energy is also effectively utilized. Solar hot water system is used to provide office toilet and gymnasium shower water. At the same time, waste heat generated by summer air conditioning is recovered as preheating of return water. In order to reduce the energy consumption of the initial heating water temperature. Not only that, the building also recycles the roof rainwater and air conditioning condensate of the skirt building. After treatment, it can be used for cleaning parking lot floor, first floor outdoor greening, road cleaning, water supplement and other purposes. In view of large area greening environment, such as winter garden and roof garden flora, rain sensor is set up, automatic sprinkler irrigation is controlled by timing, and micro-sprinkler irrigation with high efficiency and water saving is adopted to reduce water consumption.
Science and Technology Supports Intelligent Buildings with Temperature
The biggest difference between smart buildings and traditional buildings is that they can connect and communicate structures, systems and services in a unified way according to the needs of users, and then reduce costs and improve efficiency. Thanks to the technical support of Far EasTone Telecommunication under the Group, the new building will plan a complete integrated network and security defense, and build IBMS (Intelligent Building Management System) to build a higher-level building integrated management system for intelligent integration and linkage.
"Safety management" is absolutely one of the strengths of intelligent buildings. Far EasTone Telecommunication team plans to build electronic fences, especially in the periphery of buildings, top buildings and winter gardens. When abnormal persons are detected, the system will directly transmit the image to the property management unit for warning, and managers can receive notifications through mobile phones. Far EasTone Telecommunication also designs lost and remains detection beside Winter Gardens with high throughput, which can also transmit images to property managers.
In addition, access control is also an important part of safety management. In mainland China, mobile payment by mobile phone is very popular. Therefore, the two-dimensional code access control system of the new building is also based on mobile phone to replace the physical access control card, so as to achieve the function of smart sensing scanning code to open the door. If there are foreign visitors, employees can also log in and make appointments through APP. The system will provide two-dimensional code to visitors, reduce the need for manual registration and card exchange at the counter, while retaining visitors'visiting records, and realize the concept of e-counter. When the red face recognition system will not be absent, it will be gradually imported in the future to provide more secure and convenient access management, so as to upgrade intelligent applications.
In the part of parking management, the Far EasTone Telecommunication team also plans intelligent functions such as license plate recognition and reserved parking. Employees can identify the license plate in and out of the parking lot without applying for a parking permit. If VIPs come to visit, they can also make reservations through APP. On the other hand, considering the popularity of electric vehicles, the parking lot will also provide charging services in the future. After users make charging reservations through mobile phone APP, the system automatically gives the reservation number. When the owner drives the vehicle to the charging area, he can start charging and enjoy the most convenient parking and charging services.
In view of the fact that the use of conference rooms in general office buildings often results in inadequate or wasted resources, in order to achieve the proper use of resources, Far EasTone Telecommunication team will introduce a conference room reservation system with mobile APP interface to facilitate people to view conference room resources at any time and make reservations. At the same time, it will integrate with Outlook, and automatically with the list of participants. Reservation conference room system is combined with calendar updating to enhance employee productivity and establish a space and platform for effective collaboration with global offices. In addition to the reminder function, the system will automatically cancel the reservation and reserve resources for those who need it if they do not arrive in the conference room after the time limit.
The restaurant in the building is also very smart. It can not only calculate the flow of people in the restaurant by monitoring cameras, but also provide instant messages about the current number of people who eat, so as to avoid overcrowding when colleagues arrive at the restaurant. What is more dazzling is that the meal management system will automatically calculate the number of times a variety of dishes to let the restaurant know which dishes are popular. As a reference for future dishes, it will be more ready to cooperate with the dietitian to mark the calorie content of each dish, so as to facilitate colleagues to grasp the calorie intake of each meal, and to check their stature and health.
It is worth mentioning that in general, when discussing the integration scheme of intelligent buildings, the emphasis is often placed on the construction technology between systems and equipment, ignoring the new demands of personnel after their arrival. This Far EasTone Telecommunication team breaks the tradition and takes "people" as the starting point. After the first stage of online, it will continue to use data analysis and demand interviews to improve its efficiency. With planning, create sustainable use value of buildings.
Seeing this, can't you wait to see the true face of Lushan Mountain? Under the guidance of Chairman of the Group and the leaders at all levels and the joint efforts of the project team, the first headquarters building of Far Eastern Group in mainland China will be built brilliantly at the end of this year. I believe that this "temperature" intelligent building will not only provide efficient and comfortable office environment for colleagues, but also become the most elegant and dazzling gem on the east coast of the Expo Park, reflecting the Far Eastern Group. The glory of the past also foretells the glory of the future!
