Join us early for a complimentary continental breakfast. Find a good seat and take some time to meet with your peers and our sponsors.

Welcome to a powerful one-day seminar that will prove to be a fun, eventful day filled with chances to learn, share, network and discover the answers to many of your questions regarding building systems, convergence, integration and building automation.

Learn from industry stakeholders the issues that are driving dramatic changes. Gain a deeper understanding of the issues that will impact you today as well as those that may revolutionize your world tomorrow.

• Homeland and personnel security
• Business integration with facilities
• Push for higher productivity and lower costs
• Globalization

The impact resulting from the convergence of Facilities with Information Technology (IT) is enormous. What are the key issues, and how will they impact you? How can you relate to a customers IT group and understand their needs? How will the movement toward wireless impact future designs?

• How and why IT is impacting facilities
• Working with IT departments
• The impact of the Internet on buildings
• Wireless technologies in buildings
• Open Systems

Join us for a complimentary lunch. Use this time as a chance to explore program concepts with your peers and visit with our knowledgeable sponsors.

Today the use of open systems is an expectation for most new and many existing facilities. Yet despite the acceptance of these standards, there is still confusion as to what the standards are, which one to apply, and where they are headed. This session provides the unbiased facts – accompanied by actual case studies – showing the benefits and challenges with the use of an open system.

• Benefits of open systems
• Overview of current and future options
  • BACnet
  • LonWorks
  • oBIX
  • Other initiatives

With all of the changes occurring how can you design the “right” system? How do you make sure that what you do today isn’t obsolete even before the project is complete? How can you make sure you have chosen the right set of suppliers? This interactive session will have you work through an actual design situation and answer these difficult questions.

• New projects
• Retrofits, additions, upgrades to existing sites
• Procurement options (P/S, D/B, RFP, etc.)
• Design workshop

Once the design is done and it is time to create a specification, how do you determine the best way to proceed? What are the elements of a good specification, and how do you make it fair yet enforceable? This session will use examples to help you create and recognize the right documents.

• What makes a good integration specification?
• Impact of the new CSI Master Specification
• Green buildings and LEED

BuilSpec is designed to be an interactive session with questions and comments being shared throughout the day. During this final wrap-up we will take final comments and questions from the audience.

Join us for a casual reception. This session is designed to give you a chance to network with each other, visit our sponsors and ask any final questions of the BuilSpec staff.