News stories of the month HEVAR helps Facilities Managers save money
management to address key issues facing facility managers within commercial properties, hospitals, schools, universities, local authorities and retail environments plus many more. HEVAR’s topical seminar programme includes ‘Building MOTs: A Structured Approach to Total Energy Management’. The session features presentations on Continuous Commissioning and Improving Energy Performance in Buildings, as well as practical advice regarding sub-metering and monitoring for energy reduction and equipment diagnostics, plus the use of Display
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ondon HEVAR has gathered some of the UK’s leading experts in structured building
Energy Certificates as a key, new FM tool.
Other relevant seminars during the packed two days of London HEVAR – 22 and 23 September 2010 – include ‘Improving Procurement to Deliver the Low Carbon Agenda’, by Martin Davis of Synopsis Ltd, The Strategic Forum’s Integration Task Group and Consultant to the Office of Government Commerce. The session proposes how
improved procurement processes that at the outset bring together integrated collaborative teams of consultants, construction and FM managers, specialists and key suppliers backed by their supply chains and underpinned by integrated project insurance can deliver ‘more for less’,
and give an insight into the efficiencies, potential innovation, and rewards of a new ‘virtual company’ culture. Further sessions designed as essential to Facility Managers across the board at HEVAR include an HVCA seminar addressing ‘Safe and Sound – how Health and Safety Engineering is driving the Building Services Agenda’; a panel debate on ‘Renewables – the Cost and the Cash’; ‘Payments as a Contractual Option’ by Professor Rudi Klein and a CIBSE morning on ‘The Law, The Money & You – how implementing austerity measures will keep on the right side of the law.’
www.hevar.co.uk
NEW WIRELESS MONITORING RANGE
adio-Tech has developed a new and innovative wireless environmental monitoring system that measures energy efficiency and building performance and is specifically designed to meet standards specified by the Energy Savings Trust (EST). Radio-Tech’s products have already been selected as the primary data collection system for both the EST’s Solid Wall Insulation field trials and the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) ‘Retrofit for the Future’ project. Radio-Tech’s products measure building data through a range of wireless sensors positioned throughout a property. As the entire system is totally wireless it requires no field programming and can be installed with minimal disruption to occupants. Sensors monitor variables such as internal and external temperature and humidity, surface temperature, carbon dioxide levels, window and door openings, electricity, gas and water
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consumption. Through partnerships with industry-leading specialists, Radio-Tech can also offer heat flux,
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light and electrical power sensing equipment.
Sensors collect data from a range of sources and, using 434 MHz RF, report this information back at 5 minute intervals to a single, central Wi5 Data Hub. The Wi5 Data Hub can be located anywhere in
the property and with a memory of 2GB can manage data from hundreds of sensors. Once data has been received, the Wi5 transmits this information back to Radio-Tech or client hosted servers for analysis; this can be uploaded periodically or as often as every minute. Collecting such environmental data can provide valuable information about building construction and performance that can affect the future of low impact building development in the UK. The Government-backed TSB is currently spearheading an R&D project that will help evaluate building performance in an attempt
to generate future low impact buildings with a reduced carbon footprint. Case study buildings will be evaluated to understand how building design and construction relates to energy and performance and the TSB has funding worth £8m available to businesses involved in the construction of these ‘green’ buildings. Environmental monitoring is an important part of future planning in the building and design sector and Radio-Tech products meet the criteria outlined by the Energy Savings Trust.
www.radio-tech.co.uk Tel: 44 (0)1279 635849
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