Defining smart residential

'Improving customer quality of life through enabled and connected communities, using SMART thinking to improve customer wellbeing and their environment. Responding and predicting new ways in which people live.'

A smart apartment steering committee worked together to identify five smart themes, which need to be addressed to deliver smart residential. Work is now underway to create a roadmap towards smart apartments, which will be broken down into various propositions–each of which will be tested through methodologies such as customer scanning, research to recruit and pilot.

Defining smart commercial

The commercial team recognised we are already blessed with the perfect pilot smart building, our new head office at 200 George Street. This building has already started us on the journey towards smart, with the first Closed Cavity Façade, the first full LED lighting system and nine innovations credits as part of the Green Star process.

Mirvac then engaged Philip Ross to help define the office of the future. This work focused on technology and confirmed that a key focus must be on infrastructure and ensuring we have intelligent building management systems (iBMS) in place.

With this in mind, Mirvac has written a new intelligent building management platform guide, which all new developments must comply with. It is understood that by creating the right iBMS, we lay the foundation for all the future initiatives which may occur. Mirvac has also piloted a new intelligent building backbone at three shopping centres and plans to roll this out across the portfolio. The review then examined 21 different technology themes from a Landlord and Tenant perspective.

We're also trialling...

• SkySpark, a diagnostic and analytics package that ‘plugs in’ to our existing Building Management Systems
• A new telemetry system to monitor energy use on cooling towers
• The BOSSA (Building Occupants Survey System Australia)