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This paper desribes a specific version of a sentient building and a specific path to its realization. A sentient building istr defined here as one that possesses a representation of its own context, components, systems, and processes. It can autonomosly maintain and update this representation, and it can use this representation toward real-time self regulatory determination of its own state.