Cities are growing faster, and buildings are getting taller. Construction output worldwide will grow more than 70%, to $15 trillion by 2025

1. Groundbreaking evolution towards
ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS
New technologies for building power distribution

2. Hi everyone,
I’m Elio Burguera (@ecburguera)
and I would like to share with you some
information about new green building technologies,
mainly focusing on the future of Zero Energy Buildings

3. Cities are growing faster
and buildings are getting taller

4. Construction output worldwide
will grow more than 70%, to
$15 trillion by 2025

5. U.S. Department of Energy
buildings account for
more than 40 %
of total energy usage

6. U.S. Department of Energy
and
nearly 70 %
of total electricity generated

7. In this way, Net Zero Energy Buildings
represent a great solution for
a sustainable energy future

8. National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office
are residential or commercial buildings
with greatly reduced energy needs
through efficiency gains, such that the
balance of energy needs can be supplied
with renewable technologies within
Net Zero Energy Buildings

9. We address this challenge …
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Net Zero grid usage
Increasing Renewables

10. But also…
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Net Zero grid usage
Increasing Renewables
Increasing efficiency

11. • The lack of new technologies
for architects and engineers
• Increased construction cost
for developers and owners
It looks simple, but
Zero Energy Buildings still have strong
barriers to grow, mainly because of:

12. There is an unmet need for more
competitive technologies to allow every
building to become a Net Zero Energy
Building…
without any over cost
for developers and owners
To sum up

13. Some of the most important cost
elements are:
• Renewable energy sources
• High efficient Lighting
• Energy management systems
• Intelligent metering
• High efficient A/C and other
mechanical equipment
• Efficient thermal insulations

14. All of them represent high construction
costs, but currently there are large
investments in research looking to
increase the efficiency and reduce cost
on all these fields.

15. However, there is one
that has gone unnoticed:
Building
Power Distribution

16. Building Power Distribution is
an essential element of
cost and time delivery
in construction

17. …for more than a Century
cables and pipes have been
commonly used to distribute power in buildings,

18. …a complex, labor intensive
and expensive job
but it has been and is

19. This is a picture of the brand new expansion of the second biggest airport in the US

20. a simpler and greener alternative ?
but, is there

21. Yes, there is…

22. has proven to be the simplest and most
efficient system for power distribution.
Busway systems

23. …and it requires
70% less time and
labor to be installed

24. the busway technologies, that are currently
in use, were designed more than 50 years
ago and were meant to be used in large
industries, not in buildings.
That’s good news, but…

25. Therefore, the market is still urging for
more efficient and competitive
technologies
specifically
designed for buildings

26. recently,
something has come:
Shielded Paired Phase
busway technology

27. Let’s take a look at this technology

28. US Patent 7,786,382 B2
Electbus’ Shielded Paired Phase
Busway Technology
By shielding the pairs,
the electromagnetic fields are canceled
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R1

29. Improving transmission efficiency
by nearly 25%
and reducing cost
by over 20%

30. and developed with plenty of details
specifically tailored for buildings
simple,
more efficient and
very competitive technology
a breakthrough in
building power distribution

31. more than a great product,
it really is…
a groundbreaking
concept on engineering

32. C
C
C
Integrated Power Backbone
It’s called
• Simple on engineering
• Simple on installation
• Simple on maintenance
TM
Power and control through the same bus

33. Proper power distribution can be
the best insurance for users in a building
But also
safer and more reliable.

34. With an amazing market
based on clean energies
on construction
Oxford Economics, Fredonia, Navigant Research and other sources
US & Canada $14.75 billion
Latin American $4.93 billion
Other markets $109.97 billion
$130 billion by 2018
Integrated Power Backbone
global market, will reach
TM

35. Let’s take a look at the future

36. Let’s take a look
at the future
Power distribution systems have had
little improvement since the original
patents of Thomas Edison and Nicola
Tesla…
developed at the beginning
of the 20th century

37. Do you think
this will remain the same
during this century ?

38. Of course not.
The complex and costly power network
will be gradually replaced by a simpler
and more efficient system to guarantee
a clean energy future

39. It will be simple,
efficient and reliable
Jeremy Rifkin
Using Internet technology to transform the
power grid of every continent into an
”energy-sharing inter-grid” that acts just like
the Internet where millions of buildings are
generating small amounts of energy locally,
on-site.

40. dc distribution
is making a come back
Once a micro-grid generates its own
power, AC high voltage transmission
makes no sense, because there are no
long distances to overcome

41. dc distribution
is making a come back
Once a micro-grid generates its own
power, high voltage transmission
makes no sense, because there are no
long distances to overcomeIt’s not a revolution, it is evolution

42. …more precisely
a groundbreaking
evolution

43. Simple but powerful technologies for
building power distribution
www.buildingpowerdistribution.com