Intelligent buildings were a hot topic since the 1980's.  The vision was to share building telecommunication backbones with energy management systems, fire alarms, security systems and even office automation. The benefits were touted to include cost savings for cabling and long term maintenance, plus a future potential for interoperability between systems. 

     The potential within these concepts and the surrounding technology is vast, and lives of users are changing from the effects of Intelligent Buildings developments on their living and working environments.

In other words, the main aim of building intellegent building is merely  a technological trend. But using intellegent buildings has wider effects on users than intended. Neglecting the human aspects of the users may be considered as a shortcomming.

This paper considers the causes of this new trend in architecture in a larger social context, from which the rationalism of building intellegent buildinngs  must arise.  This will be done through exploring the concepts and applications of intelligent buildings, showing how all of them affect human life in such many ways.
