People Terry Wyatt
Utilities need to offer
incentives for CO
2
cuts
In his CIBSE annual conference speech, Terry
Wyatt will also focus on managing energy demand
more efficiently through dynamic demand control
technologies. More tonnes of carbon could be
saved through dynamic demand than any other
single action, Wyatt insists.
But, if we haven’t got systems properly
engineered, under control and monitored, then “we
don’t have any hope of being able to manage our
demand – we won’t know what it is and we certainly
won’t have the facility to do anything about it,” he
says. However, to make this happen, industry needs
an incentive from utility companies in the form of
different rates according to demand – similar to
peak and off-peak train fares.
Wyatt says: “We’ve got to be able to manage our
Terry Wyatt is adamant that
For all the intention that goes into demand both in timing and the amount that we
post-occupancy evaluations
are essential building design at the moment, the
wish to have at any time.”
If demand were managed through dynamic
reality is completely different
software, it would remove the need for electricity
companies to have huge amounts of energy already
generated for use at peak demand times. He says
> and we have to sit down and honestly look at each of our
the national grid also needs to be adapted to
buildings – especially when they’re iconic ones that are
accept energy coming from renewables, as building
obviously nowhere near the ambition behind the project
services engineers are being increasingly asked to
when they were originally instigated.”
install them on projects.
Wyatt is adamant that post-occupancy evaluations
(POEs) are essential. “We need to have POEs coming
from the buildings we have put up in the last five to 10 us to deliver better buildings and to ‘back us up’ over how
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years, which applies to schools more than anything. this is to be achieved, but we are guilty – we haven’t done
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There’s this enormous school building programme and so. We have to admit we have not delivered.” But there’s
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I know of no full POEs that will show what works and no reason why the industry can’t reach its targets very
The CIBSE National
what doesn’t and how best to pursue it.” quickly, according to Wyatt, because “there’s no rocket
Conference, ‘Engineering Why aren’t more POEs being carried out? Because, science in this, it’s painfully obvious what needs to
excellence: the way to a
says Wyatt, there’s no income from having a look and be done.”
sustainable business,
future-proofing the
investigating it – despite an agreement between client and Wyatt believes that the best approach now, as regards
building services architect/engineer to check the building is performing as school buildings, would be to copy what’s being done
industry’, will be held on
intended from the outset. in Germany and Scandinavia, as POEs have already
28-29 April at the Russell
Hotel in London. Topics
Clients are often not so keen on such performance been conducted there. He also thinks building design
include sustainability in inspections: potential occupiers wouldn’t be thrilled to is approached in the wrong way in the UK: engineers
building services and
see that the building is performing badly. Most people should recall that people need to be cooled rather than
in business, and case
studies on low-carbon
care only for a property’s location, rentable cost and how heated, and so should be concentrating on how to do that,
solutions. There’s also it looks – which pushes the industry towards producing rather than on heating buildings with ridiculously high
a conference dinner
fashionable buildings, making appearance more temperature sources.
and debate sponsored
by the Young Engineers
important than performance, insists Wyatt. The heat generated by occupants can be used to
Network. As well as Terry Far too much money is still spent on trendy architecture, warm the fresh air to 20
0
C without having to use any
Wyatt, other keynote
rather than on its performance, he says, but he concedes other form of heating system. Extra heat which couldn’t
speakers will include
Professor Julia King
that the introduction of energy certificates for buildings be generated from a heat recovery mechanical ventilation
of the Committee on could become a force for change, encouraging people system would only be needed in extreme cases of cold
Climate Change; Mike
to ask about a building’s energy efficiency and thus weather and should always come from low temperature
Hogg of Shell Gas Direct;
and Professor David
emphasising its importance. sources.
Fisk of Imperial College The massive plans for schools and other public “I’m sick and tired of being given 20 reasons why the
London.
buildings are a different matter and need to be transparent buildings are not being properly engineered, instead
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as to their performance and energy efficiency. He adds: of the one reason needed for them to do it,” bemoans
eventbookings@cibse. “We’ve known energy certificates are coming in, we’ve Wyatt. “They will, I fear, only do that when they fully feel
org or visit www.cibse.
known building regulations are coming in, with Part L the consequences of not going all the way and not doing
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and so on. There has been enough legislation to call on it properly.” l
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