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while upskill training took place.
Says Wade: “In bringing this to our
attention during mobilisation, Tom set
in motion training programmes for the
TUPE team which addressed the skillset
and certification gaps and kept our estate
fully covered and compliant throughout
the entire mobilisation process, showing
the great benefit to be had from using
contract managers with strong engineering
backgrounds.”
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is hugely important to the
BMA, which promotes a sustainable lifestyle
for every client, supplier and employee,
encouraging carbon balancing and water
neutralising for any events. To help meet
its sustainability ambitions, during the
mobilisation stage Artic completed a
detailed energy audit to show potential
innovative measures which could lead to a
reduction in the cost of PPM, a reduction in
carbon footprint and an increase in energy
e’ iciency. Each new protocol or schemes of
work which brought benefit to the BMA in
terms of energy expenditure were itemised.
Explains Pinder: “Some examples of this
were lagging the pipework to minimise the
loss of heat, updating the lighting to LED
and adding PIR- based motion detectors.
For a quick win we fine-tuned the BMS to
assist in their carbon management plan by
operating the plant at peak e’ iciency. We
reviewed the timing schedules and adjusted
set points and running times to ensure they
were aligned.”
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Live e’ iciency monitoring for major plant
using actual inputs and outputs was also
introduced. For example, with the chillers
by measuring the current flowing into the
system and the cooling output from the
system, both the change in temperature of
the water either side of the coils and the
corresponding flow rates can be monitored.
For boilers, the gas consumed and the heat
output from the boiler are measured, which
helps to create coe’ icient performance
ratings for larger plant.
Says Pinder: “We have now started to
introduce both business and conditionbased
maintenance which allows for major
items of plant feeding into the BMS to be
controlled as and when is required. In
association with the BMA Estates team we
explored the consequences of modifying
maintenance regimes in terms of frequency
of planned maintenance depending upon
business consequences of plant failure.
“We have set up alerts that get sent to our
CAFM system to trigger maintenance before
failure occurs. It also enables us to postpone
maintenance when it is not required. This
was aligned with work on the building fabric
to identify ‘leaky’ buildings and suggest
methods to decrease energy loss through
building fabric and throughways.”
Building control scenarios are subject
to constant review so as the Artic team
increases its understanding of the estate
buildings and when the BMA returns to
full occupancy, it will ensure to adhere to
SFG30 protocols. This will also be the ideal
opportunity to introduce further innovations
in control settings and intervals and zoning
to realise energy use savings.
Explains Wade: “We now include Carbon
Reduction Initiatives as part of our annual
reporting, as well as just the data gathering.
This aids us in ensuring that we are
progressing at the right pace in this area, in
alignment with our greater Carbon Descent
Plan.”
Examples include:
100 per cent Renewable electricity tari’ s
LED lighting upgrades as standard
Promoting paperless/ e-first ways of
working
4 x electrical car charging points installed
at BMA House
Cycle storage capacity doubled
Looking to introduce a PHEV company
fleet policy in 2022
Concludes Pinder: “As the full BMA estate
begins to repopulate with COVID-19
restrictions being rolled back, we are
preparing contingency plans to remobilise
certain aspects of the service provision
where building occupation may have a
bearing on the successful realisation of the
SLA’s. In this way, our due diligence will
further cement the successful delivery of the
maintenance required by the BMA estates
team.”
REFERENCE NOTES
(i) www.bma.org.uk
(ii) https://bmahouse.org.uk
(iii) www.articbuildingservices.com
(iv) www.sfg20.co.uk
/www.articbuildingservices.com
/bmahouse.org.uk
/www.bma.org.uk
/www.sfg20.co.uk
