Colombia. With the growth of 30% in the last 3 years, the smart building industry in Colombia is on a rapid rise, marked by a small construction sector that has entered the "bet" of corporate digitalization and, also, by the trend of recomitination, a term coined to describe the restructuring of existing buildings to take them to a digital level by changing their architectural and technological parameters.
According to Carlos Castro, who will be a speaker at the DataNet Andino Congress, which in October will bring together in Bogotá the most important manufacturers, designers, installers, integrators and end users of the IT sector, "for the most part, restarting is a practice requested by multinational companies that arrive to open their offices in the country and that want to provide them with the same security features, communication, comfort and energy efficiency than those of its corporations located in other parts of the world".
Castro, CEO of Grupo Gyros, a Colombian company dedicated to the implementation of solutions in network infrastructure and automation of buildings, industry and housing, assures that "regardless of industrial automation and home automation or automation in housing construction, Colombia is one of the most advanced countries in the region with a dynamic of more than 300 buildings with LEED* certifications in recent years, and with more than 100 projected for the next 24 months."
With these figures, Colombia takes great steps behind Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina but marches at the head of the Bolivarian countries, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, "although the country needs to redouble efforts in regulations because there are no clear rules, both builders and implementers work with their own interpretations and that ambiguity delays the consolidation of the sector. A success is the enactment of Law 1715 that regulates the integration of non-conventional renewable energies into the National Energy System and contemplates important issues in terms of sustainable development and energy efficiency, "says the expert.
In the same sense, assures the speaker of DataNet Andino, that in Colombia there is a lack of qualified personnel, so it is also important to reinforce and focus education punctually depending on the industry of inmotics or building automation, because although we already have in the country a new generation of civil engineers, architects, Electrical, electronic and mechatronic engineers, these lack clear guidelines.
With this talk, the expert will make his contribution within the framework of the Expo DataNet Andino 2019 Congress, an event that will be held from October 23 to 25 at the Gran Salón de Corferias in Bogotá, in conjunction with InfoComm, a fair for the audiovisual professional sector organized by AVIXA (the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association), an international association that represents the audiovisual industry and AVI Latin America, portal specialized in the audiovisual industry, digital signage, home automation and corporate communications in Latin America.
