News stories of the month
EIGHT DTZ SURVEYORS AWARDED SUSTAINABILITY QUALIFICATION
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ight building surveyors from the global real estate services firm, DTZ have been awarded a new qualification which helps organisations to achieve more sustainable office fit outs. Catherine Thompson, Elaine Sowman, Shaun Buchan, Ross McDermott, Tim Russell, Malcolm Porter, Adrian Lawson and Steve Pike, all part of DTZ’s project and building consultancy team, have become accredited Ska assessors.
Ska rating is a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accredited environmental assessment tool which has been developed to enable occupiers and landlords to integrate
best practice in sustainability. Officially launched in November 2009, the Ska rating system differs from other assessment tools as it specifically focuses on the office fit out rather than the whole building. Ska ratings are awarded at gold, silver or bronze levels and certificates can only be issued by accredited Ska assessors.
Matthew Still, Director in project and building consultancy at DTZ, commented: “The current economic climate often means that occupiers are now more likely to refurbish their existing offices rather than seek new ones. “The Ska rating system means we
now have a network of trained assessors throughout the UK who are able to assist in fit out work and help our clients to achieve a more sustainable fit-out.
He added: “DTZ’s Ska rating assessment service sits comfortably alongside our project and building consultancy core skills in the design, specification and project management of office fit out projects.”
Channel 4, who recently appointed DTZ’s project and building consultancy team, has been an early adopter of Ska.
www.dtz.com Email:
matthew.still@
dtz.com Tel: +44 (0) 20 3296 2058
Health and efficiency: E.ON begins work on Newham Hospital RE:FIT project
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.ON has begun working with Newham University Hospital in East London to improve its energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
The project is amongst the first of
the London Development Agency’s (LDA) RE:FIT programme which aims to reduce the capital’s carbon emissions by updating public buildings with the latest energy saving measures. E.ON has developed an Energy
Performance Contract with Newham University Hospital, which guarantees the level of energy savings which will be achieved by the designed solution and within a fixed budget.
The first phase of the project involves replacing old inefficient air handling units (AHUs) that supply heating, cooling and ventilation to wards and theatres with modern, significantly more energy efficient systems.
The new energy solution had to 8| SUSTAINABLE FM | MARCH 2011
work within a tight public sector budget, but will cut the hospital’s energy consumption by more than 940,000 kWhrs per year and is expected to pay for itself within seven years, whilst cutting the hospital’s carbon emissions by more than 3,000 tonnes over the same period. Richard Scott, Head of Consultancy
at E.ON, said: “Our Carbon Consultancy team were able to design a solution which met the hospital’s objectives to reduce energy consumption whilst also contributing to its carbon reduction goals and, through the RE:FIT scheme, those of London too.” Kai Kin Lee, Capital Design Project Manager at Newham University Hospital Trust, said: “It was vital that the new solution met the hospital’s budget and return on investment requirements, was able to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by the greatest amount, and could be flexible and adaptable enough to ensure that any disruption
to patients, staff and visitors would be kept to the absolute minimum. “Following a detailed audit of our existing solutions, E.ON was able to recommend a solution that met all of these requirements.” The new AHUs will use heat recovery, where heat is taken from the extracted air and is transferred back into the supply air without mixing the two air streams. This is important in a medical application such as a hospital, where “contaminated” extract air should not be reintroduced into the building.
The purpose of RE:FIT is to assist public bodies in London to significantly reduce carbon emissions from buildings which will help London achieve its overall target of cutting carbon emissions by 60% by 2025 (as set out in London’s Climate Change Action Plan 2006).
www.eonenergy.com/sustainable Tel: 0800 051 5687
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