Google and Richards-Zeta Win Buildy Award for Green Initiative


Campus-wide technology platform central to long-term green corporate strategy

This month at the BuilConn conference in Santa Clara, California, Richards-Zeta was awarded the Best Green Initiative award for its Intelligent Buildings Systems (IBS) platform deployed across many of Google’s Northern California corporate offices. Richards-Zeta’s (RZ’s) IBS is a strategic technology platform that enables businesses to reach critical energy and facility data and manage their green building programs on an ongoing basis.

Intelligent Building System -Foundation technology for Green and Sustainable Buildings

Richards-Zeta’s IBS platform is a key element in a company’s commitment to a clean and green energy future. From renewable energy, higher-efficiency lighting, and environmental management systems, companies with an aggressive commitment to reducing its carbon footprint are struggling with the growing complexity arising from disparate green technologies and facility systems. The challenge is further impacted by the requirements for ongoing reporting and continued energy use reductions.

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Palo Alto, Calif. — May 1, 2007

Based on recent research in the building automation systems market, Frost & Sullivan has selected Richards-Zeta (RZ) as the recipient of the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation.

This Award is in recognition of the company’s radical Mediator platform, which simplifies connectivity and integration in buildings. The product is distinctive for its fluid and open communication capabilities for building intelligence systems. By employing IP, the Mediator enables two-way communication over a TCP/IP network among controls, sensors, devices, and systems within a facility.

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BuilConn 2005.
Richards-Zeta is pleased to be widely represented throughout the Conference Tracks.

Company President/CEO Edmund Richards is a panelist in BuilConn's Open Sessions Track, The Future of Open Systems. An “Open System” is defined by a true ‘standard’ that is universally accessible to any person, or entity, to make data available without restriction, license or limitation to use. Today only one such global standard exists, Internet Protocol, or simply IP.

RZ's Director of Sales & Marketing, Doug Smith, will also be a panelist in the BuilConn Conference. In the track Designing Tomorrow's Intelligent Buildings, Doug will discuss migration path necessary in designing tomorrow's Intelligent Buildings, which leverages the existing assets while simultaneously bringing them up onto the corporate IP Backbone. The goal is to provide the customer an accessible front-end GUI from a standard Internet Explorer browser with unlimited client access.

RZ is pleased to welcome MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, Dan Freyling, to Dallas. MacDonald-Miller is up for Best Integration Project for the Tacoma Financial Building, where the existing out-dated Barber-Colman NW 8000 systems was leveraged up onto the corporate IP Backbone using the RZ M2.

RZ's OMEGA is also up for Best New Product. RZ's OMEGA is the culmination of years of knowledge, and attainment of a truly IP centric platform that offers the ultimate in openness, and a migration path for the future. OMEGA is the first, and last, intelligent building automation solution you will need to manage the assets of one or many facilities in today’s business, period.