An evergreen campus for Novartis in Shanghai

The China Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research (CNIBR) in Shanghai is part of Novartis’ global drug discovery network. The facilities of the campus support R&D activities and business operations.

In its plans for the overall design of the campus in Shanghai, Novartis put emphasis on sustainability and energy effi ciency. In order to build a low-energy-consumption campus, multiple options for heat recovery, underground energy storage and other sustainable resources were exhausted. SAUTER supported CNIBR by installing its SAUTER Energy Management System (EMS) and providing a solution for fully automated blind control.

The automation system delivered by SAUTER contains over 45,000 BACnet objects in the major facilities of the campus. It also supports over 5,000 data points of integration with a total of over 60 systems such as grey water, cable TV, and utility meters. The entire automation solution is strictly BACnet/IP compliant to ensure that the facility’s HVAC equipment, room automation and lab control are handled in a most effi cient manner.