When all the equipment in a building is fully networked and interactive, when building systems can react to internal and external changes and demands to traffic, pricing and preferences, and to safety threats and hazards--all effortlessly, seamlessly and, critically, in the background, in ways facilities' managers and homeowners will tolerate--true intelligence and true efficiency will have arrived to the chaotic building sector.

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Market efficiency appears to be generally true for most people although there are examples where people have consistently exploited pricing inefficiencies in the past.

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Now, it's true that amazing gains are being made in the efficiency of internal combustion engines, both gas and diesel: direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop-start, eco-mode throttle mapping, to name a few of the recent applied technologies.

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Highlights of the new software include System Match technology with features such as True Radiant and Heat Pump Balance geared to help high-efficiency, non-conventional (i.e. not forced air) heating systems perform even more efficiently.

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The Tories, however, insist this is not true and that they would be able to fund the tax cuts by efficiency savings and tackling benefit fraud.

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