VALUE ENGINEERING BY DESIGN = CLIENT VALUE-ADDING
From our decades of core “talent” we commit to a relentless focus on value engineering.
We “craft” a “bespoke” System Design for client benefit(s) beyond expectations.
Retrofit vertical “rack-mounting” can give back many sq. meters of plant room “footprint” for high-value benefits to an Architect or Property Owner.
Extended volume capacity Buffer Tanks can be relegated to “dead-value” car-parks or under-basement locations…..or even exterior “below-ground” burial for space saving benefits + extra Peak-Load shifting benefits.
Buffer tanks are always designed for “multiple-verticals” (500L thro. 5,000L Volume) for SST-316
long-term durability & resilience with “by-pass” piping for easy “shutdown” maintenance and/or replacement (these tanks constructed “in-situ” at Basement 3).
Specialist MEP techniques for the ringmain “balanced-low flow” design & Buffer Tank integration are critical to “protect” the thermocline from thermal dilution (multi-sensored for validation) and data-logged via BMS……this can increase hydronic loop sustainable temperature draw-down benefits >38%.
Passive solar thermal “thermosyphonic” contribution is maximized wherever possible when an exterior “shadow free” southerly elevation is available for Façade Absorbers.
This significantly multiplies the annual SCOP by increased FREE energy saving benefits.
Where some extra footprint space is available a low cost FForde-Chamber can be Designed …….. to combine an e-Chiller of Zeolite modules for silent, (passive, chemically driven) adsorption/desorption cycles for the benefit of Lowest Life Cycle Cost & longest durability.
Higher volume commercial space cooling benefits are better realized from large canopy areas that integrate “trickle flow” hydronic channels back to the Solar Thermal Buffer Tanks for “driving” an e-Chiller cascade.
At this exterior ground-level location we design for a Solar Fforde-Chamber to embed the ASHP for enthalpy-scavenging + hybrid-multi Ballast for latent, delayed heat transfer to the Property’s interior System. The building’s roof area is not disturbed for Solar thermal but is kept free for a later phase of Solar PV (when the overall final power “Load Demand” has been completely validated) after all sections of Solar thermal & Heat Pump HVAC are completed.
Value Engineering (1)
ANALYSIS ONE:
THE LOAD PROFILE AUDIT
It all begins with a forensic validation of the Hourly Load Profile for each sub-component of the System. This is critical to select and configure the Heat Pump/Solar Thermal Absorption to adjust for the seasonal performance realities of the site. A final iteration inputs equipment staging and optimisation for holistic System resilience – to a higher level of Value-Adding.
Value Engineering (2)
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ANALYSIS TWO:
PROJECT INVESTMENT BY REAL OPTIONS
Your stakeholders gain significant Value-Engineering by the flexibility of our “Real Options Analysis”. By recognised “Net Present Value” financial techniques, we can provide you with a “Cashflow Neutral” Decarb. Project.
This can progress or stop your CAPEX investment zone by zone of the Property as the higher efficiencies of “staged” equipment retofit accumulate significant saving. This can present solid financial justification to the Board as an economically viable project.
From our recent years of completed Designs* the THREE most sought-after Design Benefits by our Value Engineering are:
Benefit # 1: ASHP System Designs for assured Energy cost control (by lowest Operating & Maintenance) for more rapid aggregate Savings than all other Options.
Benefit # 2: ASHP System Designs for PM2.5 & Coronavirus etc. IAQ security to MVHR Fresh Air medical compliance Stds.
Benefit # 3: ASHP System Designs for 365/24 optimized humidity control for Historic & Heritage Property compliance Stds.
*Total decarbonization to an “all-electric” property being a GIVEN.
