200 George St sets a new standard in the high-rise building class and is one of Australia’s most environmentally advanced and sustainable smart buildings. Buildings Evolved was contracted by Meld Strategies to deliver a Living Lab and smart building Power BI dashboard service to Mirvac’s 200 George.

Website: www.mirvac.com.au
Budget: $200m
Location: Australia
Industry: Real Estate Development & Operations
Employees: 1,540

Background

Mirvac’s new Sydney Head Office at 200 George Street is a milestone on the journey towards an ambitious goal to create smarter buildings and smarter workplaces.

The dashboard solution provides relevant and timely information to occupants including building specific telemetry data, conveying essential information quickly and clearly to stakeholders and tenants with the goal of having a positive effect on consumption behaviors and effectively managing the building’s performance and operation.

The Mirvac Property Group has adopted an integrated business model which focuses on design, construction and asset management to deliver quality built environments for stakeholders and tenants. The land mark construction project of 200 George recognises that the human element and the environment is of utmost importance and the design of the sustainable smart building Power BI dashboard is no exception in effect, featuring:

• Operational insights and control over telemetry data for stakeholders through Microsoft Azure’s Power BI SaaS platform; and
• to give public access to environmental data predicating awareness over utility and resource minimisation initiatives.

Mission

01. Building Shared Values
Consultation in quality technological systems - Identify value, ethos and culture necessary to drive efficiency and discover innovations

02. Optimising Technology
Develop organisational goals - translate problems into opportunities through technology to deliver value and return-on-investment

03. Intelligence in Business
Turning data into knowledge at a building and portfolio level - provide business solutions that are specific and actionable

Business Drivers

Industry
200 George is owned jointly by Mirvac Property Trust and AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund and is being developed and constructed by Mirvac’s in-house development and construction divisions. Both organisations have emphasised their ‘change before you have to’ approach to sustainable smart building development. A value added strategy whereby sustainability initiatives help to reduce energy and utility spend through smart technology which also adds appeal and improves corporate image.

Design
Sustainability is a key component that complements the design of 200 George. The project involves integrating data from building management systems to convey statistics detailing electrical, waste and water consumption. Telemetry data captured from the building’s peripherals feed Microsoft Azure’s Power BI SaaS dashboards giving stakeholders web portal access to aid in monitoring and efficiency programs. Telemetry data is also displayed on dashboards within the lobby and elevators for optimal user centricity featuring 9 dashboard schemas with a total of 56 visualisation tiles, designed to stimulate user engagement through interactive metrics, visuals and game like scenarios.

Implementation
The solution was achieved through a clever mix of software, the internet of things, hardware and infrastructure. The overarching process involved assisting with the procurement of SQL and Windows servers, development of software, web portals and digital infrastructure as stipulated in the technical documentation. The software architecture required a database Server, which was used to house all of the raw telemetry information. This same server was also used to provide the consumption model for the sustainable smart building dashboards created using Microsoft Azure’s Power BI SaaS platform. The dashboard design incorporated 11 different data sources with web portal access.

Key Outcomes

• Operational insights and control of telemetry data, temperature, electricity, gas, water and waste to stakeholders through internet based platform
• Give public access to environmental data predicating awareness over utility and resource minimisation initiatives
• Improve on Mirvac’s brand image through impeccable standards of technological development