DESIGN, BUILD, AND ENGINEERING
Air-handling plant located on the new mezzanine floor.
Services, partnered with Distech to design and deliver a BMS system for the entire facility. The designed system provided by Carrob Controls incorporates nine individual control panels located around the building. This distributed approach gives us additional resilience, with, for example, each AHU and the primary cooling and heating systems having its own dedicated control panel. All panels are networked to a central PC, via which we can monitor the entire system. “However, each control panel also incorporates a Wi-Fi router, so I can walk up to any panel, and on an ‘app’ on my phone or tablet, access it and look at all the devices that the particular controller is managing, as well, for example, as make adjustments as necessary to improve plant performance. We also have remote VPN access from anywhere with an Internet signal. The big advantage of such a BMS is its ability to interface with third
parties. The Distech system can communicate with other components via M-Bus, Modbus, and BACnet MSTP/IP, enabling us to obtain live operational data from the plant, and particularly the chillers. We can now easily view and adjust parameters such as refrigeration characteristics and compressor running hours. As we are responsible for maintaining this plant, such data is invaluable. We are very carefully monitoring energy and water consumption, and the running of all the plant, and have graphs set up for temperatures and profiles for the various departments.”
Managed service contract Having originally been appointed for the first stage – the design of the decontamination facility, CFES was subsequently appointed to also build it under a JCT Design & Build 2016 contract.
John Davies said: “The contract was then converted into a 10-year managed equipment service contract. We have a full-time BOAS-qualified boiler engineer on site at all times, which is a statutory requirement, and a minimum of three engineers here at any one time, one of whose roles is to undertake standard PPM on the HVAC plant. Also on site are two Getinge engineers, who essentially undertake the weekly manual testing of the equipment and any PPM on the company’s machines, and deal with any breakdowns. We undertake all of the cleaning and soft FM duties for the facility.”
John Davies explained why having fully qualified engineering support staff on site, in some cases, ‘24/7’, was so important. He said: “Any delay to releasing instrumentation back to operating theatres will impact theatre lists, and subsequently clinical outcomes. Trusts have limited surgical
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