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Ok, so that brings me to the end of my final point. I have talked about features of intelligent
buildings, using the study by Clement Coombe as an illustration. I then moved on to discuss
the advantages of intelligent buildings and used the study by Chan and Lam (in) 2010 to
demonstrate the lower running costs, and then, the research by Lam and Preston in 2005, to
show the better environment that can be created; so now, it's time to hand you over to Caleb
who will discuss the drawbacks. Caleb, ...
Yes, thanks Polly, So, I'm Caleb and I'm going to talk about three disadvantages of
intelligent buildings; first the high construction costs, and then the need for careful management,
and third, the technical problems that might occur; after that I'll look at the issue
of intelligent residential buildings in Hong Kong before finishing with a short conclusion.
Finally we will have the Q and A session, when you will be free to ask questions.
Ok, so turning to my first drawback of intelligent buildings, the high construction cost, I think
here, this study by Morrison and Roberts is most useful; they compared the cost of building
conventional office buildings with intelligent offices in two North American and two European
cities. As you can see from the bar chart ...