The theme is “Drawing · Digital City, Building · Smart future” for electrical designers across the country
Draw a dual-carbon blueprint for smart buildings, and accelerate the large-scale landing of new technologies and new products
Digital innovation is the key to achieving sustainable and high-quality development

The wave of urbanization has driven unprecedented growth in the global construction business, making smart buildings the key to increasing urban carrying capacity. To reach peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, we need to make more efficient use of existing resources, reduce overall energy consumption and CO2 emissions while meeting the needs of safe and comfortable living, and work with building builders, developers and residents to achieve sustainable development.

As one of the world’s top 100 best sustainable enterprises, ABB promotes digital transformation with innovative business models, reduces the impact of carbon emissions on the environment with leading technology products, and helps the construction industry upgrade with safe, green and digital smart building solutions. On February 6, 2023, ABB’s “Digital Smart Cup” Architectural Digital Intelligent Design Competition was officially launched, aiming to deepen the green and intelligent concept in the field of smart buildings, explore the promotion and application of new technologies and new products, and accelerate the implementation of smart building solutions that are simultaneously electrified, automated and digitalized.

ABB “Digital Smart Cup” Architectural Digital Intelligent Design Competition is an architectural design competition for working electrical designers in China, sponsored by ABB Electric and guided by the Building Electrical Branch of the Architectural Society of China.

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With the theme of “Drawing · Digital City, Building · Smart Future”, the competition aims to recruit “low-carbon building energy efficiency solutions” and “smart building control solutions” with innovative strength, and build low-carbon building models with new technologies, products and solutions to empower beautiful green living space; Intelligent technology to assist building design, create smart buildings, to achieve a low-carbon future.

Yang Rong, vice president of ABB Electric China, said that smart buildings are one of the engines of economic development and the main starting point for docking “new infrastructure”, which not only contains a huge market space, but also relates to the peace and contentment of thousands of households. The transformation and upgrading of the construction industry and high-quality development have put forward higher requirements for the field of building electrical design, and it is necessary to pay attention to the integration of strong and weak electricity, hardware and software, and cloud edge. As a global leader in power and automation, ABB is pleased to host this professional design competition to support electrical designers to solve real-world building problems with new technologies and products, respond more quickly to the needs of the Chinese market, and provide Chinese customers with safer, smarter and sustainable building electrical solutions.

Shen Yuxiang, director of the Building Electrical Branch of China Building Electrical Society, the director of the competition, said: “Digital and AI-enabled architecture creates a healthy, comfortable, efficient and harmonious free space. The building of “number intelligence connection” is like a young person with vigor, full of wisdom and vitality, and makes the stars of the future city bright. The Building Electrical Branch of the Architectural Society of China has made a significant contribution to promoting the scientific and technological progress of building electrical and promoting the comprehensive development of economic construction and society. In recent years, the society has played a leading role in promoting the healthy and orderly development of smart buildings in China, and I hope that this competition can guide the innovation of building electrical technology, continuously improve the innovation ability and competitiveness, empower future buildings, and realize smart, green and low-carbon.”

This competition set up two groups of propositions: one group is low-carbon building energy efficiency solutions, the design scheme can solve the building energy efficiency management, to achieve low carbon, energy saving. Solutions and products Available but not limited to: eEMS studio intelligent energy management system, insite proM end intelligent power distribution solutions, DIN Rail & Enclosure end intelligent products and three box solutions.

The other group is smart building control solutions, designed to achieve a comfortable, intelligent, energy-efficient building experience. Solutions and products can be used but not limited to: i-bus smart lighting control system, Cylon smart building control, loT EWA smart panel.

The registration method for the 2023 ABB “Suzhi Cup” Architectural Digital Intelligent Design Competition is online application. The registration deadline is the end of March 2023, and the competition will last until May 2023. The winners will have the opportunity to win the prize money, the personal guidance of industry experts and the opportunity to attend the annual dinner and award ceremony of the Building Electrical Branch of the Architectural Society of China. Learn the details of the contest and how to apply for registration.

Zou Enchang, head of ABB’s smart building business in Asia Pacific, said that ABB’s rich portfolio of smart building products can help users manage public infrastructure, factories, commercial buildings and residential buildings more intelligently and efficiently, serving every scene of life. With the iteration of communication and artificial intelligence technologies, ABB is actively investing in the use of external resources to promote open innovation, promote the arrival of more scalable and replicable models, accelerate the leap from autonomous to autonomous buildings, and transform the “zero emission vision” of smart buildings into reality.