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Princess Noura University
Princess Noura University, Saudi Arabia

Princess Noura University is the world's largest women's university. Located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the university is composed of 32 campuses in a self-contained higher education city, which can accommodate 40,000 students and 12,000 employees. The total built up area is around 3 million square metres. The university includes administration buildings, 13 faculties, a 700-bed student hospital, an 11.5 km automated metro and a residential area that includes accommodation for students and staff.

Not only was the sheer size of this site impressive with 30,000 BACnet controllers from various manufacturers, but the hectic schedule to beat the 25-month deadline of construction was equally challenging. The installation required 18,000 Neptronic BACnet fan coil controllers, which were pre-configured to control 4 pipes of cooling and heating with a 3-speed fan. The Neptronic fan coil controllers were also fully integrated with a Johnson Controls system. With so many controllers one of the biggest challenges was to save time and reduce costs. Neptronic provided pre-configured controllers for the required applications, which saved time and reduced costs related to system configuration. Neptronic also offered the solution of using RJ45 connectors on the thermostats and controllers, which saved time and reduced the cost of installation related to the wiring between the thermostats and controllers.

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BACnet Manufacturers: Neptronic, Johnson Controls

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Greenbuild International Conference and Expo

November 20-22, 2013

Philadelphia, PA

Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. The ideals and passion of the green building community come alive at Greenbuild. The buzz is contagious.

Greenbuild brings together industry leaders, experts and frontline professionals dedicated to sustainable building in their everyday work, and a unique energy is sparked. Participants are invigorated. Inspired. They find themselves equipped to return to their jobs with a renewed passion and purpose. Click here for more information and to reserve your spot.

For free expo passes to Greenbuild please contact David Nardone, david@bacnetinternational.org.
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Advertising Opportunity: BACnet International Journal January 2014

SMART Buildings is the theme of the upcoming BACnet International Journal No. 7, being published in January 2014.

Distributed to over 8,000 members of the BACnet International community globally, it will also be distributed at the AHR Expo 2014 in New York City.

Position your company as a key player in the cross-functional building automation sector by advertising in the BACnet International Journal.

With an advertisement in the BACnet International Journal you benefit from:

Increased visibility in the continuously growing market of HVAC
Position yourself as part of the global market growth of BACnet
Present the products and services of your company to over 8,000 members of our community
Reach your target audience: end-users, integrators, site managers, decision-makers, developers of the building automation industry

Space is limited; please confirm your spot by completing the order form. Deadline for materials is November 21, 2013.

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Foundations December 2013 Call For Proposals

BACnet International is now accepting proposals for the December 2013 Foundations. All content must be BACnet related. The target audience for this publication is integrators/installers/appliers and specifiers/consultants. Authors are not restricted to only one article. Click here, to submit your proposal. Proposals need to be submitted as soon as possible

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Click here for more information on BIG-EU.

The Future of Reliable Building Operations Lies with BACnet

There are generally consequential damages or losses when the power supply to a building fails. These may be production outages in manufacturing processes, the disconnection of data centres or shortfalls in medical care. Even the productivity of basic office buildings can be affected. For this reason, the key objective of technical facilities management is reliable building operation. The user's business and the production processes are sacred and "avoid faults at all costs!" has become the mantra of the building operator.

The BACnet communication standard (ISO 16484-5) makes a fundamental contribution to the uninterrupted availability of essential processes. It integrates heterogeneous disciplines within a homogenous environment, thereby creating transparency and security. Even during the system concept and design phase, BACnet is valued as a safe and reliable link in fault management. And practice has also shown that BACnet can guarantee the transparency which is so essential to building control systems. Thus the standard can make a significant difference to safe and secure operations. For entire release, please click here.

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To learn more about The S4 Group, please click here.

The S4 Group Has New Digs

Steve Jones, Managing Partner, is happy to announce that the company has outgrown its current location and has moved into a new location that offers lots more elbow room. The larger space is around the corner from the existing location, right in the heart of downtown Ogden, Utah across the street from the historic Egyptian Theatre. The new location has a large conference room that will be used for customer seminars and our new "S4 integration boot camp" that we will begin offering in January 2014 (just in time for Sundance!). A larger test lab will make testing all of the S4 Open products more efficient, will more easily facilitate joint activities with other BAS manufacturers, and will allow us to expand our support for integrations to additional legacy BAS products. Steve believes the most critical attribute of the space is that it will accommodate staff expansion to enable us to continue delivering the quality products and high level of customer service that we are known for in the industry.

The move is complete and our new address is 2444 Washington Blvd Suite 100 Ogden, Utah. For more information, please click here.

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Click here for more information on Automated Logic.

The Newest Release of Automated Logic's WebCTRL� Offers Customer Control from the Convenience of a Tablet

Automated Logic Corporation (ALC), a leading provider of

innovative building automation systems that maximize energy efficiency while ensuring occupant comfort, announced today the latest release of WebCTRL� software. In addition to its proven desktop support, version 6 now offers customers the ability to control their WebCTRL systems from the convenience of iOS�-, Android™- and Windows�-based tablets. Automated Logic is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

"We understand our customers need to have complete control of their buildings at all times," said Mead Rusert, president, Automated Logic. "This latest version is our first to provide full access to all the powerful features WebCTRL has to offer from a tablet, without additional browser or device downloads."

In addition to multi-browser compatibility, this new release provides many other innovative features and engineering enhancements. The user interface has been completely redesigned and includes larger buttons, user-friendly icons and simplified alarm management. A new multi-trend display renders historical data to the screen in seconds and provides innovative new controls to help diagnose building system performance. Please click here to continue reading about Automated Logic's WebCTRL�.

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Please click here for more information about Carrier

Carrier Announces Latest i-Vu� 6 Building Automation System

Great news! Carrier's latest i-Vu web-based, BACnet� Building Automation System (version 6), will be available on October 15th!

Features will include the following:

* Full bridging capabilities between Carrier Comfort Network� (CCN) and Carrier Open (BACnet) control systems. This means that customers can keep their existing CCN investment while expanding their control system with Carrier's Open (BACnet�) controls now or in the future, AND they can use a single i-Vu user interface to manage their entire Carrier control system going forward.

* Support for multiple browsers on desktop and mobile devices. Customers will now be able to use Microsoft� Surface™, Apple� iPad�, and Google Nexus (v7 & 10) Tablets, along with mobile phones to access and manage their i-Vu system.

* A new software-only version of i-Vu (i-Vu Pro), has been added to the existing i-Vu line-up. The existing i-Vu versions (Standard and Plus), come with i-Vu software pre-installed on a compact web server. The new i-Vu Pro offering can be installed on the customer's PC of choice. i-Vu Pro has also been certified by the BACnet Testing Laboratory (BTL) as Advanced Operator Workstation Software (B-AWS). This advanced certification is the highest level of the three types of BACnet certification available for an operator workstation.

If you have any questions about the latest version of i-Vu, please contact your local Carrier office.

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To learn more about The S4 Group, please click here.

S4 Open Device Type Template Generator Released to Integrator Partners

The S4 Open Device Type Template Generator is now available on the Customer Support CD, which is shipped with every S4 Open: BACnet-N2 Router or S4 Open: OPC-N2 Router. By adding this utility to the support CD S4 continues empowering our Integrator Partners and Distributors to be self-sufficient in adding value during the integration process.

By providing Integration Partner access to the program:

Metasys� Resource Files can be converted to S4 Open Device Type Templates.
Points associated with single side loops in Metasys� ASCs will be included in Device Type Templates.
Point names in S4 Open Device Type Templates will exactly match those used in the legacy Metasys� implementation.
The point list included in the S4 Open Device Type Template will exactly match that programmed in the N2 device.
This utility supports converting the resource files for any N2 Open, VMA, or DX-9100 device whose configuration utility is capable of creating .prn or .dmo files.
The time to complete a Metasys� integration is potentially shortened by a full business day.

To find out more about the S4 Open Device Type Template Generator, please click here.

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1,900+ exhibitors. 55,000 attendees from all 50 states and 130 countries. They will all be at the 66th edition of the world's largest HVACR industry event.

Returning to New York City for the first time in six years, AHR Expo 2014 is the go-to place to see, learn and get inspired by the latest HVACR technology and more sustainable solutions for the built environment. Please click here for more information about AHR Expo 2014.

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BACnet International Success Stories

BACnet International Success Stories is a free resource that provides a place to promote your successful projects that use BACnet in order to further knowledge and understanding of the BACnet protocol - essentially, mini case studies. Posters utilize a web form to upload the content, (narratives, photos, etc...) which is then reviewed by editors from BACnet International (primarily for errors) prior to public posting.

Once the BACnet Success Story is posted, it becomes a permanent, linkable record of the successful project.

Further, Success Stories:

Are automatically eligible for additional public recognition via BACnet International's Leader of the Pack Awards
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Are featured in Cornerstones - BACnet International's monthly eNewsletter that goes out to 7,000+ members / subscribers
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