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As businesses get ready to reopen their office buildings while keeping to social distancing measures, what might the impact be on energy efficiency in those buildings – and the climate emergency?.Before COVID-19, the climate emergency was very prominent in the media, and the UK was the first major country to commit to achieving zero carbon targets by 2050.
With the current pandemic, however, the focus on buildings is moving away from energy efficient buildings, and towards healthy buildings.But can we have both?.The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has just released a. set of documents.
which provide guidance for building owners and managers on how to start reoccupying their buildings.The guidance relates to safe working practices and the assessment of building services..
Some of the key themes are around air: providing more fresh air and avoiding recirculating air.
The guidance includes bypassing those heat recovery devices which may recirculate air in some circumstances, and considering air pathways – how air comes in, moves around and leaves a building.From that point on, design compliance can then be either shown systematically against the agreed rule set or even autogenerated against it..
The diagram below shows how detailed requirements can be documented and managed through the design process, and compliance validated in the manufacture and assembly phase:.Rigorous, automated QA gives total confidence in compliance.
Automatic generation of models ensures that the correct components are used and are performing within their defined parameters and also that the data is properly structured and follows all of the information management protocols.. NB Even if the models are not automatically generated, the same principles can be used to create automated workflows e.g.scripting or use of software such as Solibri.
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