Architect and Builder September 2020 | Page 10

NEWSWORTHY FRESH PROJECTS OFFERS STARTER. FREE FOREVER. Built Environment professionals know Fresh Projects for their easy to use app that presents complex financial project data via simplified visual dashboards - providing industry insight and a competitive edge for their clients. The platform provides Fee Calculators, Project Resource & Budgeting and Income & Profitability Forecasting. Insight that would have taken days of work can be generated in minutes. In an effort to share this benefit more widely amongst the Built Environment, Fresh Projects have recently launched their Starter. Free Forever package - enabling free access to the first layer of insightful tools. The Starter package provides 3 broad value offerings: New Business Pipeline Management; Project Budgeting & Fee Calculations and Income Forecasts. The New Business Pipeline management provides a dashboard of all potential prospects, allowing you to track the status of the opportunity from lead to proposal to appointment. Opportunity related tasks (e.g. follow ups) can be assigned to team members to ensure that they don’t slip between the cracks. Each lead can be probability weighted - which creates an insightful Weighted- Probability Income Forecast report. Users can establish healthy profit margins on their projects by easily calculating an accurate budget for each project stage. The app guides the user through determining staff cost rates, including allowances for employee utilisation and company overheads. Finally, the package empowers Built Environment professionals with an easy to use Fee Calculator that incorporates the SACAP fee guidelines, along with a 1-Click Proposal feature and a Monthly Billing Schedule tool, ensuring you never miss a billing cycle. www.freshprojects.co.za BUILDING TELEMETRY SYSTEM USES THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR WIDE VARIETY OF BUILDING SYSTEMS. The advent of micro-computing, cloud storage and AI has allowed millions of sensors to permeate our lives, measuring and storing every miniscule change in temperature, pressure, humidity, location, Watt of energy and drop of water, amongst other things. As a company, The bleedingEdge has tapped into and expanded onto this cloud of data, resulting in higher efficiencies, lower costs, productive people, ease of access, cleaner environments and more responsible management. Fast Installation Times The bleedingEdge Building Telemetry System (BTS) was developed as a replacement to legacy Building Management Systems (BMS). Using a secured dedicated Wi-Fi IP network, their teams can install and configure the BTS in a fraction of the time of traditional wired BMS. Where a BMS that would have taken 6 months to install in a 10,000m 2 building, it can now be done in less than 2 weeks. Because of the wireless architecture of the system, it can also easily be retrofitted to existing buildings without disruption to the operation of the building. Compatible with Existing Systems The Building Telemetry System reads and stores data, provides control of devices on your network, and can be used in conjunction with existing automation servers, like Schneider, Tridium etc. The BTS is highly scalable to accommodate any size project from home automation to corporate offices. The bleedingEdge Field Equipment Station (Wi-Fi enabled protocol converter) converts the information from any BACnet or Modbus enabled devices that can then be communicated to either an Automation Server on site or to the bleedingEdge Cloud servers, using open standardised protocols and services. Remote Access and Monitoring The system allows for intuitive access via apps on tablets and smart phones. Users can control and monitor equipment such as air conditioning units, lifts, generators, UPS installations and monitor fire and security systems. The system continually interrogates the operating conditions and not only report faults but also provides alerts if equipment does not operate within its design parameters. The system monitors and archives all the building’s data and can compile all the readings from the electrical and water consumption meters to enable remote billing. Numerous third party systems like switching of lights, access control via licence plate or facial recognition etc. can be incorporated onto the platform. The system also has the functionality to display live data from the building services that can be displayed on a Smart TV or monitor, comparing the building’s performance to the same building as if it was without any of its energy saving enhancements. The bleedingEdge also offers a Leak Detection System, Touchless Lift Operation, UV-C lift car disinfection, UV-C air conditioning units’ coil and filter disinfection as well as numerous thermal temperature screening options. www.thebleedingedge.com 10 News Watch