Energy Efficiency Case Study
Compliance ‘Plus’ Air Conditioning Inspection Client:
Location:
Sector:
Guy’s And St. Thomas NHS Trust
UK
Healthcare
Project Challenge: Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Trust (GSTT) have hundreds of cooling systems over many buildings in the heart of London, with over 8,000 staff and 120,000 patients every year. Government regulations require air conditioning inspections every 5 years on any building with cooling, typically above 150m² floor area (12kW installed).
Project Brief: EECO2 (Energy Efficiency Consultancy Ltd) accredited inspection engineers were commissioned to carry out a Compliance Plus air conditioning inspection by GSTT
Solution: An EECO2 Compliance Plus inspection provides compliance with legislation plus the added value of a more detailed site report to identify energy savings projects with a breakdown of costs. The report looks at areas such as design sizes, maintenance, controls and operation and identify ways in which energy consumption and costs can be reduced within existing systems.
Energy efficiency measures identified:
Benefits: • Savings identified
£2.87 Million • Simple payback
1 Filtration upgrade strategy
< 2 years
2 Specific fan power reduction 3 Recirculation conversion 4 Minimise re-heat
Conclusion:
5 BMS optimisation
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Project Management Energy Monitoring
EECO2 provided an experienced team of accredited assessors to collect and review data for the two hospitals over a number of weeks. The inspection and review covered over 200 air handling units, a number of chillers, cooling towers, packaged AC units and terminal units and control systems. The Compliance ‘Plus’ approach provided not only the mandatory compliance report for all the buildings but useful summary of savings identified, outline costs and next steps.
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