Intelligent Buildings is a dynamic, young Scottish company offering cutting edge building automation, multimedia networking solutions and distributed audio and video systems to commercial, public sector and residential clients throughout the UK.

So what is it exactly that we do? Basically we get the traditionally independant systems in a building to actually “talk” to each other. In this way we create what is termed a “smart” building, it’s a very simply concept, forxample - if your lighting, heating and burgular alarm system all communicate with each other and you throw in a bit of logic circuitry into the mix then you have a building that can figure out whether rooms are occupied and make adjustments accordingly. If there is nobody in a room then it’s ok to turn off the lights and the heating, ergo saving energy,  it’s not rocket science, it’s common sense.

Allright, we’ll be the first to admit that there is a bit more to it than that, but once you grasp the concept then you are more than halfway there. As you might have guessed we are passionate about the ability of intelligent automation systems to significantly reduce building energy consumption which is good not only for the environment but good for our clients pockets as well. One of the keys to our success lies in the fact that we are first and foremost a cable infrastructure led company, one of our guiding philosophies is “get the cable behind the walls right then it will cope with whatever is thrown at it” .

We use the very latest in proven copper cabling soloutions to ensure that not only are our installations are not only as futureproof as we can make them but they also reduce our consumption of the earth’s valuable resources -  for example our use of CAT8 cable is just one of the myriad of innovations we have helped to pioneer here in the UK spearheading the leap forward in single cable type Multimedia signal distribution being capable of carrying up to 1200Mhz (1.2Ghz) analogue signals and over 10Gbits of digital information thereby removing the need to install a plethora of different cable types with all the attendant cost implications.

Our decision to fully adopt KNX (konnex) as our principle building management protocol in 2005 has given us a degree of flexibility and adaptability over lighting and heating control that we never thought possible. Integrating seamlessly with other building systems like security, access control and blind and window control this generic control system is almost infinite in its application from a single bedroom flat in Leeds to controlling the lighting in a project like Terminal 5 at Heathrow nothing phases it. Lending itself to the most luxury of penthouse developments where every decadent whim and fancy is catered for to the exacting control of some of the most hallowed halls of learning in Europe where a 50% reduction in energy was delivered through use of this exiting technology.

Whatever your needs, whatever you are looking for feel with your project please feel free to get in touch with us for advice, information or pricing.