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This paper concerns the personalization of intelligent buildings, where intelligence of a building is considered in a broad sense, not confined to the computational aspects. Personalization is desired in order to give the individual greater representation in the building and for energy consumption/well-being balance in the context of measuring building intelligent quotient. The paper examines problems of programming in pervasive space, and current systems for personalization. It discusses design issues relating to human representation in the building, active and passive human participation, the nature of the personal agent, ownership and location, transparency, and norm-based agency. A design based upon active involvement of the occupant is presented. (7 pages)