The smart approach to BeMS maintenance that saves you 10% on your energy bills
Delivers average energy savings of 10% without compromising the level of BeMS support and is guaranteed to cost you the same as your current BeMS maintenance contract.
Focus EnergyTM ‘swaps’ around
20%
of your Onsite Support time to Remote Support
This creates both
time and cost
SAVINGS
Allowing our engineer to
regularly focus on our
energy reduction tasks
How Focus EnergyTM Works Focus EnergyTM is a unique service that takes a fresh approach to standard BeMS maintenance. By applying the latest technology to your site and utilising offsite support ABEC Focus EnergyTM reduces energy cost and usage by c.10%.
Focus EnergyTM ‘swaps’ around 20% of your Onsite Support time to Remote Support. This creates both time and cost savings allowing our engineers to regularly focus on energy reduction tasks. Examples of these energy reduction tasks include: Look to ensure time zones are set up correctly Example - Office ventilation plant operating longer than necessary. Ventilation and associated pumps account for around 27% of electrical energy for a standard air conditioned office. If the plant is on 2 hours/day longer than necessary the building will consume 16% more energy a year. In a 10,000m2 building this equates to 96,000kWh/year or £9.6K. Program for upcoming holidays Example - Office building air conditioning plant not shut down on bank holidays. HVAC plant accounts for around 48% of electrical energy for a standard air conditioned office. If the plant is not shut down over bank holidays, the building will consume 3.5% more energy a year. In a 10,000m2 building this equates to 41,000kWh/year or £3.9K. Ensure set points are sensible and achievable Example - Heating temperature set-point 1oC higher than necessary. Every 1oC the heating set-point is greater than necessary, energy waste is increased by approximately 8%. In a standard air conditioned office this equates to over 134,000kWh/yr or £4.7K for a 10,000m2 building.
Some of our other energy savings tasks undertaken: • Confirm dead bands are suitable • Check for software overrides • Look for potential heating and cooling clashes • Check for plant overrides (Hand/Off/Auto Checks)
Where systems are not maintained and monitored, building performance will undoubtedly suffer, resulting in higher energy and operational costs for your building, as well as compromising occupancy comfort. Focus EnergyTM delivers high quality BeMS maintenance to combat the above, at the same time as saving you energy.
• Run 7 day temperature plots to identify run times of plant
The main benefits of Focus EnergyTM are:
• Check optimised time control is accurate
• Focus EnergyTM delivers energy savings of c.10% of your annual energy bill
• Check Summer/Winter changeover • Seasonal optimisation.
And we don’t stop there… Our engineering team will review the system holistically each time they log in to look for energy wasting items and correct them accordingly. Most of these tasks are carried out as part of a standard BeMS Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) regime. However, in a standard PPM regime these tasks are not carried out frequently enough to generate the energy savings. The most critical element of Focus EnergyTM is the regularity of energy saving tasks – our engineers focus on these tasks weekly, fortnightly, or monthly (depending on the building setup) to ensure that energy wasting items are captured and solved quickly.
WHY USE FOCUS ENERGYTM ? The importance of maintaining your BeMS should not be underestimated, with a BeMS controlling as much as 84% of your buildings energy consumption.
•F ocus EnergyTM costs the same as a standard BeMS onsite maintenance contract •F ocus EnergyTM reduces your energy consumption, helping you meet corporate and statutory energy reduction targets • Focus EnergyTM results in your BeMS being monitored more frequently than normal, giving an early warning of potential issues •E nergy savings effectively pay for your maintenance contract, giving you free BeMS maintenance.
THE PRICE GUARANTEE We guarantee that Focus EnergyTM will cost you the same as a standard BeMS onsite maintenance contract. We achieve this by using remote connectivity to deliver savings on the BeMS maintenance which are then channelled into energy saving tasks. If you haven’t got remote connectivity don’t worry! We can still employ Focus EnergyTM on your building by supporting your non critical plant on a reactive or biennial basis, creating a cost saving to channel into energy saving tasks.
Technical Support Centre (TSC) Focus Energy uses our TSC for remote BeMS maintenance and energy saving tasks. We thought we would tell you a little more about this service. TM
Our Technical Support Centre (TSC) is permanently staffed by qualified and experienced BMS engineers, all of which have significant previous experience working as mobile support engineers. Their sole aim is to provide you with whatever support you need, to ensure that you are able to use your BeMS to its optimum level and reduce your building risks. Typically, our TSC will be able to address 50% of your needs or problems over the telephone, without it being necessary to send an engineer to site. When compared to a traditional engineer-to-site approach this remote facility saves money and reduces reactions times for you, your clients, and building users.
Engineers at our TSC are qualified to help you reduce cost through efficient monitoring of your energy usage, ensuring you are always optimised for your cost and carbon reduction program. • Telephone helpdesk manned 8.30am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday, providing expert advice • Out of hours service ensures engineering coverage for all other times of the day and night • 24/7 monitoring and management of critical and general BeMS alarms • 24/7 monitoring and management of your energy alarms (exception reporting) • 24/7 monitoring and optimisation of your energy spend, ensuring cost and carbon footprint are reduced significantly
Remote Connectivity To enhance the efficient operation of your BeMS and to reduce cost for you, it is optimal for us to have remote connectivity to your system. We are very experienced in working in data sensitive environments, such as data centres, large financial institutions, government organisations, and have developed a stable and secure method of connecting remotely to your system. Connectivity is generally achieved through a low cost installation of a 3G (4G where available) private VPN secured wireless router to your BeMS network. It’s a point to point connection and our staff only have access through our manned TSC, providing enhanced security to the connection.
• We can also create a bespoke support regime to suit your needs.
“ Too often simple energy reviews are ignored or delayed annually due to fears of complication and time restraints but with our Focus EnergyTM package with constant remote monitoring, businesses can start to save money and plan further carbon reduction projects without spending extra time and additional cost in the process.” Andy Dyke, Technical Director, ABEC
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