Designed by Lord Richard Rogers and Ivan Harbour and officially opened on St. David’s Day in 2006, the Senedd was designed to be ‘exemplar’ in terms of sustainability, even achieving BREAAM’s ‘Excellent’ rating at design stage for many of its sustainable features.
Working with CBRE, the CreevX solution was selected to further the sustainable journey of this magnificent building.
After a review of the current legionella compliance program, the team felt it was inefficient, lacked transparency and most importantly wasted energy.
The manual compliance process involved one staff member ‘blanket flushing’ each outlet weekly throughout the building and taking water temperatures to ensure compliant conditions, as a precaution.
This ‘blanket flushing’ meant:
Lack of accuracy on legionella compliance as only a ‘moment in time’ reading of the temperatures was captured.
As the building was staffed and most outlets were being used frequently, smart remote flushing wasn’t required. Instead, we installed remote temperature monitoring and water movement at sentinels and sources.
Using data captured by our sensors we were able to reduce manual flushing by 90% and the on-site team only flush where required; at little used outlets and areas of less-than-ideal temperatures or low water movement.
The implementation has the potential to deliver:
90% reduction in flushing as
a precaution, which would save 1.4 million litres water annually.
£6K energy saving estimated annually from heating water unnecessarily.
8.7 tonnes carbon reduction estimated.
Preventative maintenance tasks recommended for TMVs and boilers.
The staff member(s) previously responsible can be redeployed to other higher priority areas, saving staff costs of almost £19K.
While the CreevX solution delivers the most return on investment on ‘remote’ sites this is a great example of how a ‘static’ site can benefit. Working with a client who prioritises sustainability, the CreevX solution delivers energy savings, huge water conservation benefits and improved staff efficiencies and lower costs, all while improving compliance. Simultaneously, we can suggest improvements to the building’s system.
Potential further savings become apparent, as we build our insight into the behaviour of the building, by reducing the level of water testing and then lower the frequency of risk assessments required.
The ability to drill down to review and rectify individual areas has improved confidence in our legionella compliance management.
The insight has not just improved our risk management but feeds into our planned preventative maintenance decision too."
CBRE Contract Manager
Being able to see that manual tasks, such as flushing, were not being carried out or were less effective than we believed, gave us incredible insight into our service delivery.
Now we can immediately improve our processes and importantly validate those improvements."
CBRE Contract Manager
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