Campus Estate Management Spring 2020

Spring 2020

Building mental health Can the university estate better support student wellbeing?

8 Industry News The latest news and views on campus

22 Smart campus Better outcomes from smart buildings

30 Digital estate Digitising university estates

34 Eye the beholder The role of campus biometrics

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Building mental health Can the university estate better support student wellbeing?

8 Industry News The latest news and views on campus

22 Smart campus Better outcomes from smart buildings

30 Digital estate Digitising university estates

34 Eye the beholder The role of campus biometrics

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Contents 4 Cover Story Building mental health Can the university estate support student wellbeing?

8 Product & Industry News The latest news and views on campus

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30 Digital estate solutions The journey to digitising university estates 34 Eye of the beholder The role of campus biometrics

22 Smart campus Better outcomes for students from smart buildings

38 Make a good choice Steps that can be taken to create a safe and secure campus

26 De-mystifying the lowcarbon heat puzzle?

Hysopt explains how HVAC digital twins work

42 An active cmpus How the University of Warwick is building a community focused on health CAMPUS | Winter 2020 | 3

COVER STORY

Building mental health

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Can the university estate better support student wellbeing?

tudent mental health is a very real issue for educational institutions.

Statistics from an Insight Network online survey showed that 50 per cent of students have contemplated self-harm and 21 per cent have a current mental health diagnosis (most commonly depression). Mike Entwisle, Partner and Education Sector Director at Buro Happold, discusses the impact our surroundings have on mental health and how university estates can be improved to help tackle this important issue.

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‘It’s okay not to be okay’ is a phrase often used when talking about mental health. While it’s encouraging to see an increased awareness about mental health over the last few years and greater acknowledgement about how serious an issue it can be, there’s still plenty of work to be done to offer support to those who need it.

But what about their surroundings?

Importantly, is it okay for university estates not to be okay?

It’s becoming increasingly acknowledged that the state of our mental health is intrinsically linked to our environment, and expecting

students to live and study in substandard buildings, within unpleasant external surroundings, is impacting on their wellbeing. Conversely, universities that have invested in high quality facilities are reaping the benefit. As our own global research into the design of university facilities has found, something as simple as improving visibility or ease of movement within or between buildings or improving metrics like temperature, noise and air quality can be directly linked to positive wellbeing outcomes.

Students spend so much time in

these spaces, working long hours and living away from home – not to mention the added financial burden and mental strain of university fees along with living expense loans and life – so it’s crucial their surroundings are at an appropriate standard to support them physically and mentally.

However, many British universities have ageing estates with a high percentage of buildings from the 1960s and ‘70s, which can require large investment to bring them up to date. Unfortunately, many of these buildings no longer adequately meet the needs of today’s students and academics, whether in terms of environmental performance or their lack of support for new ways of learning and 21st century student life. However, with close collaboration and skillful design, it is possible to breathe new life into dysfunctional buildings and also tackle mental health.

Identifying the issue To do this, it’s crucial to firstly recognise and understand the problem. At Buro Happold, we’ve surveyed over 5,000 students globally and found that 44 per cent considered the design of university facilities to be average or poor, with issues of physical connectivity called into question. Many university estates are in a difficult predicament and suffering from a chronic lack of investment. This isn’t about criticising these institutions, it’s about working together as a sector to

recognise and identify the challenges – and indeed the opportunities – to improve student wellbeing. The goal is to facilitate workable and realistic change.

It is clear that universities are taking student wellbeing extremely seriously, with many of them investing in specialist support structures and interventions.

Many universities are also thinking critically on the best ways to reconfigure their estates and campuses to enrich student wellbeing, encouraging a greater sense of community and interaction.

It’s critical this work is recognised, so students can be more informed about the university they’re considering to study at.

Building for better mental health So, how can university estates be improved to address this issue?

By improving connectivity and creating environments that bring people together, more supportive, and so more productive, places can be created. This can be done by analysing and predicting the frequency of personal interaction, which allows designers to optimise this vital element of student life.

The University of Exeter is a case in point. Recognising that its existing campus lacked a hub, and that there was a disconnect between some of its key facilities such as the main library and educational spaces, the university created The Forum. This development has brought new and existing buildings together within

a galleried, indoor street space providing a wide range of learning, social and support facilities. Not only has The Forum improved the connectivity between buildings and made things more convenient – a key attribute these days – but it has also created a central place where students can and want to spend time during the day, bringing people out of their rooms and together in shared social and learning spaces.

What can be done to address the impact of the university estate on mental health?

It's an issue, however, that can be subjective. Until recently, the link between the built environment and mental health hasn’t fully been appreciated or well understood.

While we can easily measure daylight or acoustic levels, quantifying and making a link to mental health is more difficult, as everyone is different.

Over the last few years, we’ve been researching and exploring how the physical environment can affect the mental health of students; whether for good or bad. Our findings revealed that connectivity is key: physical connectivity within and between buildings, across campuses and through the cities in which universities are located. Avoiding social isolation is key.

Universities can use data to see how design decisions influence factors such as people flow, interaction, air quality, noise and temperature, linking to health and wellbeing outcomes. This approach

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can inform high-level decisions based on travel distances, connectivity, and integration with key amenities. The result is spaces that offer the best possible experience for learning, creativity, social interaction and – ultimately – mental health.

Estate managers need to understand the role of the environment in protecting mental health, in order to make more informed decisions about how the estate is used, upgraded or where needed, redeveloped. Increasing the awareness about the impact between the university estate on mental health will help to do this.

A potential solution to the problem?

One way to increase awareness is for university league tables to be extended with an additional metric, focused on the university estate and its impact on students’ mental health and wellbeing, so it can be measured over time. At the moment, this doesn’t exist – but I believe it needs to.

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directly impact mental health and wellbeing, it is inconceivable that students do not have access to a universally accepted mechanism for assessing and comparing the state of a university’s buildings, the way they facilitate social interaction and their impact on mental health.

Currently, international university league tables, such as QS or Times Higher Education, focus on academic results and employability rankings, whereas the student experience is explored by systems such as the Complete University Guide and The Guardian. This is all important, but why not rank satisfaction with wellbeing and the built environment too?

We’ve spoken about this extensively with Vice Chancellors, Directors of Estates, and student welfare officers from fifteen of England’s leading universities, as well as psychologists, mental health charities, architects students and recent graduates. Our research has helped to reveal the challenges of effectively harnessing the university estate to help tackle social isolation

and provide an environment that allows staff and students to flourish.

It’s also highlighted opportunities for greater collaboration and sharing of information between universities when it comes to improving the estate. Clearly, there is still more work to be done.

Student mental health is an extremely intricate issue that has many potential causes and triggers, and the estate undoubtedly has a part to play. We know that the built environment is not the only factor contributing to mental health, nor are there straightforward answers to this complex issue. We do, however, have a responsibility to design spaces in and around universities that provide the best possible opportunities for people to enjoy student life and thrive in good mental health. Estates teams can play their part in this by becoming more aware about the hidden challenges’ students are facing, which are sometimes affected by the university estate.

For further information please visit www.burohappold.com

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PRODUCT & INDUSTRY NEWS

Campus renovation includes an upgrade to real-time access control Around 7,000 people pass through the Luminy faculty’s suburban campus every day. As part of a major project to modernize two buildings, university managers sought a retrofit-ready access control solution to upgrade security.

University administrators selected Aperio® locks to secure doors in the new buildings. With Aperio, facilities staff deal with lost keys more efficiently. The laborious process of changing locks and reissuing keys — part of the daily workload with mechanical locking — vanishes.

The Luminy campus is now equipped with 372 Aperio Electronic Cylinders & 42 Aperio Electronic Handles with built-in RFID readers. Locks are integrated seamlessly, wirelessly and online with Luminy’s ARD access control system. One key goal was to deter theft, which was becoming a problem in teaching areas — especially those with computers.

“Since we installed Aperio, we have not had a breakin,” says Cédric Lopez, Maintenance Manager at Luminy.

An easy extension for room management and scheduling In addition to theft deterrence, Aperio met broad, stringent criteria for the security upgrade. Staff and students carry individual access smart-cards. Doors and credentials are easily programmed and reprogrammed to accommodate everyone’s changing access needs.

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access permissions and campus traffic — in real time.

Because their new Aperio devices are integrated online, staff see a “live” overview of the campus and respond proactively to incidents. Aperio is trusted to protect the most sensitive areas of the campus. “We have critical premises, including for the storage of chemicals, some with radioactive properties,” adds Lopez.

Aperio locks are built on an open platform, so they are flexible enough to integrate with the university’s room scheduling system. “Teachers are able to reserve their rooms. Students no longer have to wait for the teacher’s arrival, because they have access to the right rooms in defined time slots,” says Cédric Lopez. The credential students already carry automatically opens classroom doors, if they have pre-authorised access rights. For the facilities team, the ARD interface displays scheduling for all relevant rooms in real time.

Luminy site managers have already scheduled further real-time access control upgrades built around award-winning Aperio wireless technology. As Luminy staff discovered, the benefits of Aperio extend beyond just enhanced campus safety and student security.

The Aperio for Universities Solution Guide explains how you can upgrade and streamline security at your campus.

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CIBSE Buildings Performance Awards success for Hysopt Belgian HVAC design and optimisation software company Hysopt is proud to have been awarded Thermal Comfort Product Innovation of the Year at the prestigious CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers) Building Performance Awards at a gala ceremony in London.

As the only industry Awards that focus on actual, measured performance outcomes – and not just design intent or performance specifications – Hysopt is delighted that its unique design and simulation software that unlocks significant HVAC system energy savings has been recognised.

The CIBSE judging panel were impressed by Hysopt’s scalability, wide application and its ability to link to thermal modelling tools. It also aligns to the CIBSE Code of Practice for Heat Networks, and Hysopt submitted good evidence of performance for its product within case studies.

On average, Hysopt’s software unlocks a yearly energy saving of 30% to 40%, with an investment payback of between one and five years. Very often, minimal adjustments give savings of up to 15% to 20% without large requiring capital expenditure.

The principal aim of Hysopt’s software is to introduce performance as a verifiable metric at the design stage or for an existing installation, enabling engineers to understand how it can be optimised for better performance and lower energy consumption.

The software produces a “digital twin” of the HVAC installation, in which all engineering calculations are automated and optimised, and its simulation capability

predicts system performance in the design phase.

All variables can be made visible at all locations in the installation through dynamic charts and graphs.

The energy consumption of the heating and cooling generators can also be quantified alongside the auxiliary energy required for pumps and ventilators.

To date, Hysopt has been used to identify energy savings in more than 130 HVAC installations, including university and hospital renovations and new installations; and district heating networks. On average, annual energy costs savings of 32% have been found.

At VUB Free University in Brussels, Hysopt software helped identify annual energy costs savings of more than £250,000, with a payback on investment of just two years.

In the UK, Hysopt is working with district heating providers, universities and hospital estates teams to improve the design of new systems and cut energy usage from existing installations. Increasingly, estates teams are looking at ways to decarbonize their heating and cooling systems and Hysopt is providing the perfect tool to help achieve this.

“We are delighted to have won this award”, says Roel Vandenbulcke, founder and CEO of Hysopt. “It’s a wonderful recognition for our software and especially for our team. Every single day they do everything they can to improve our product and to give our clients the service they deserve.”

To find out more about all the features of the Hysopt software, then visit www.hysopt.com CAMPUS | Winter 2020 | 9

HyGenikx helps in global Coronavirus fight

HyGenikx, the revolutionary air and surface steriliser from specialist UK manufacturer Mechline Developments is now being seen as an important ally in the fight against Coronavirus across the world. Since the Coronavirus outbreak began Mechline has seen a surge in orders for HyGenikx units both in the UK, across Europe and as far away as Peru.

The revolutionary air and surface steriliser is proven to eradicate harmful bacteria and viruses, including those in the same family as the latest COVID-19 pandemic. The unit has now been backed by respected microbiologist Dr David Webber, who has clarified how HyGenikx performs in relation to the current Coronavirus strain – ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2).

“HyGenikx units have been shown to kill a wide range of microbes that are more difficult to eradicate than viruses, including bacterial species that produce endospores (Clostridium difficile, Geobacillus stearothermophilus), Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, S. epidermidis, Listeria monocytogenes and L. innocua) , Gramnegative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa), and moulds (Aspergillus fumigatus) in both the air and/or on surfaces.

SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the same group of viruses that cause colds and influenza. The use of similar technology in call centres and offices at an NHS Trust has been shown to reduce the incidence of illnessrelated absences; particularly reported cases of colds, coughs and influenza, as well as reducing other chest and respiratory problems.

Without testing HyGenikx against SARS-CoV-2 (or a suitable surrogate) I cannot categorically state that HyGenikx can kill this coronavirus: however there is a 10 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

great deal of scientific evidence that this technology can kill a wide range of other microbes that are much more difficult to eradicate than SARS-CoV-2.

HyGenikx technology has been tested against MS-2 coliphage (a surrogate for Norovirus), and achieved significant reductions in counts in both air samples and on surfaces. MS-2 is a non-enveloped virus which is more difficult to kill than the lipid-enveloped SARS-CoV2.”

Whilst Coronavirus is understandably dominating the news, businesses still need to protect against other dangerous microorganisms as Kristian Roberts, Marketing Manager at Mechline explains: “Microorganisms can multiply very quickly, spreading infections, compromising hygiene standards, causing food to spoil and creating offensive odours.

HyGenikx complements operators’ existing hygiene and HACCP procedures, combating airborne viruses and bacteria, stopping their spread and minimising the risks of cross contamination.

The advanced and compact wall-mounted HyGenikx unit is a plug and play option that will quietly go about its business, keeping staff, customers, food and surfaces protected from viruses and bacteria – even in the hardest to reach areas. HyGenikx utilises a combination of the most effective air and surface sterilisation technologies available to produce Superoxide Ions and Plasma Quattro, which are proven to target and kill biological hazards, including Salmonella, E.coli, Norovirus, and other primary sources of infections.”

For further information please visit www.mechline.com/hgx

Club Car takes to the streets

Club Car is now street legal in every country in the EU. Club Car’s electric utility vehicles offer an attractive alternative to traditional petrol-powered vehicles.

For a start there’s no petrol costs – and zero emissions.

Club Car’s vehicles have the power to perform numerous campus tasks, from mail delivery to security and maintenance.

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Four essentials to specifying reliable, cost-effective physical security for a resilient campus The right choice of physical security will not only protect campus assets from criminal attack and unauthorised entry; it can also add value to workplace safety, operational efficiency and service continuity. Terry Batten of Technocover outlines four key considerations.

Look for LPCB certified equipment that will adapt to evolving needs High security doors, enclosures, cabinets, access covers and associated physical protection are the backbone to operational continuity, often standing as the last line of defence shielding a critical asset or restricted area. But equipment must come with a robust assurance it will perform as required if subject to the assessed risk of

criminal attack or infiltration by unauthorised personnel.

As the basis to long-term resilience, partner with an LPCB specialist with the design expertise and product scope to expand and adapt your physical security as regulations and campus operations evolve.

Technocover’s leading capability includes modular, secure enclosures that can be scaled up and remodelled with panel extensions, retrofit roof systems, and new access gates - all within their LPCB certification.

Is there scope to customise to enhance site safety and efficiency?

A versatile choice of options and accessories will add significant functionality to security equipment, with benefits for safety management and site efficiency.

Make sure that available locking and hardware are compatible with your adopted house security.

Technocover can tailor its systems to existing security protocols by supplying the preferred access control system (eg key, card reader, fob, swipe) and hardware 12 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

that supports CCTV and alarm networks while adhering to LPCB criteria.

Access cover applications may require an assisted lift mechanism, safety stays and fall protection to comply with regulations on manual handling and falls from height.

Achieve best value solutions to complex needs through ‘Total Service’ Careful design and planning will be necessary for more complex applications, for example, large access cover assemblies over plant, specialised protection of hazardous substances in laboratories, or the integration of mesh enclosures and kiosks around existing assets.

Technocover’s Total Service ranges from integrated solar powering and hydraulic sliding gates on security enclosures, to full construction service from site preparation and concrete work.

Where site access is constrained or downtime an issue, Technocover provides offsite assembly of its modular buildings with pre-fitted M&E services, including heaters, along with optional racking systems, aesthetic interior wall panels, and different floor finishes such as anti-slip.

These can be craned in and connected within hours for minimal impact on operational continuity.

Finishing touches – does it meet aesthetic and durability considerations?

Premature ageing of operational assets and their vulnerability to the effects of climate change are of increasing concern.

Security equipment that is not sufficiently ‘climateproof’ will be a drain on maintenance budgets while risking service disruption if it succumbs to water, heat or wind damage from extreme weather.

Technocover uses high quality steel, galvanising and paint processes to provide 25-year service life.

This assures a maintenance-free security system and extended time to replacement, to assist with reliable cost forecasting and resilience planning.

Technocover is a leading designer, manufacturer and installer of LPCB certificated UltraSecure physical security solutions, proven for critical infrastructure, government and public sector sites and backed by a Total Service design-to-install capability.

For further Info visit www.technocover.co.uk

Ametek Land releases technology to help contain threat of COVID-19 AMETEK Land, a UK based global leader in temperature measurement, has released a fever screening thermal imaging system designed for highly accurate human body temperature measurement, which could play a fundamental role in helping to contain the spread of COVID-19.

The vIRalert 2 fixed thermal imaging system provides an accurate and remote surface measurement of body temperature, automatically alerting the operator to elevated temperatures.

This proven technology calibrates the thermal image with a blackbody calibration source in real-time to provide a system accuracy of better than 0.5°C and can therefore detect even small temperature changes induced by a fever. As a result, the vIRalert 2 system provides accurate and reliable skin temperature measurement for screening at point-of-entry into key facilities, like offices, factories, warehouses, schools, government buildings and any other places where infectious diseases can easily spread.

David Primhak, Director of Development and Product Management at AMETEK Land, explains: “In a world where global travel means infections can pass through populations fast, the ability to screen people for fever is a key tool in reducing the risk of disease spread. vIRalert 2 can detect fever at point-of-entry quickly and remotely, in compliance with social distancing requirements, preventing the risk of infection being transmitted between the operator and members of the public. This is cutting edge technology that could make a huge difference in protecting the population both now and in the future.”

David adds: “Many thermal imagers are unable to

achieve the accuracy required to detect a fever and therefore give false positive readings and low detection percentages – this means a higher chance of spreading the infection throughout the monitored area. vIRalert 2 provides accurate, traceable readings, giving mission critical operations the confidence to operate normally and safely.”

AMETEK Land’s vIRalert 2 system provides on-screen and audible alerts when a pedestrian with an elevated temperature is detected, allowing simple decision making on whether a person should be further vetted for admission without slowing pedestrian flow. Quick and easy to install, vIRalert 2 is simple to operate and works straight out of the box. It also has an automatic alert function, which reduces the potential for human error.

AMETEK Land’s vIRalert system includes: thermal imaging camera; certified blackbody source (calibrated to 38°C with power supply); connecting cables, flexible mounting options, screening software; and laptop (optional). With a typical detection distance of two metres, the system gives a field of view of 140 x 110cm from the thermal imager.

AMETEK Land has been developing high accuracy infrared temperature technology since 1947 and is renowned for operating world-leading infrared certified calibration laboratories.

For more information on the vIRalert 2 Human Body Temperature Measurement System, visit https://www. ametek-land.com/products/ir-thermal-imagers-andline-scanners/viralert2-human-body-temperaturemeasurement-system CAMPUS | Winter 2020 | 13

Help prevent the spread of viruses with protective screens In light of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic organisations across the country are taking steps to prepare for operations post-lockdown by implementing safety measures. Social distancing alongside the installation of physical barriers is considered to be the most effective way of protecting staff, students and the public from the spread of virus.

Cough screens and sneeze guards by Shop Shields offer an ideal solution for areas within educational

settings, such as reception areas, refectories, libraries and desks. By creating a protective barrier they help prevent the spread of viruses and block infectious airborne particles.

The company’s range of Shields have been designed and made to meet the needs of various types of settings.

Offering protection, whilst allowing for clear viewing and communication between parties, with a small opening for transactions.

Over the past month, due to the pandemic, Shop Shields have seen an increase in demand for their protective screens. The company’s high-quality transparent protective screens are made from clear robust acrylic, can be placed on or fitted securely to countertops and are easy to clean and disinfect.

The company offers two options for their screens.

One is a ready-made and easy to assemble Shield range which comes in a variety of sizes and are mailed out direct to customers. The second option is made-tomeasure, where screens are measured and designed specifically for your requirements and installed by Shop Shields’ professional team of fitters.

Shop Shields are available nationwide, orders can be placed online www.shopshields.co.uk

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Maximising daylight and thermal insulation The new £15m Activity Centre at St George’s College, Weybridge, is a beautifully designed sports hall which sits perfectly in the College’s Grade II listed park. It contains six courts along with climbing walls and multi-use spaces. Here, architects Scott Brownrigg have sympathetically created a striking building complete with Kalwall® translucent cladding to maximise diffused daylighting and thermal insulation.

Kalwall was specified for the clerestory daylighting and shaped to follow the lines of the curved roof. This allows for diffused daylight to be cast deep into the interior sports areas, thereby removing shadows and glare and the stark contrasts of light and shade. The even distribution of light makes it easier for players to distinguish markings on the floor as well as spotting balls and other equipment. Kalwall is also highly resistant to impact, making it excellent for use in this type of school gymnasium environment.

Another important aspect of the specification is that Kalwall is inherently highly insulating. For example, a 70mm thick panel can offer values up to 0.28W/ 16 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

m2K - equivalent to that of an insulated cavity wall cavity wall. The unique ability to transmit large amounts of usable light with low levels of solar heat gain means less radiant energy is transmitted. With increased natural daylight, energy-consuming artificial lighting and air-conditioning costs are dramatically reduced.

Kalwall is a popular choice for projects where performance, long life cycle and low maintenance are required, coupled with an aesthetic finish. The lightweight system reduces the need for supporting structures while offering the highest protection in terms of wind-borne debris and resistance to impact, abrasion and point loads. Kalwall’s exterior face is colour stable being formulated with a UV resistant self-cleaning resin. This means that normal rainfall helps to keep the surface free of dust and dirt, while at the same time retaining its original colour during the weathering process.

Case studies and technical information are available from by visiting www.structura-uk.com/kalwall

Five ‘Smart Campus’ management trends every higher education facilities professional should explore As universities plan for campus improvements in 2020 and beyond, several trends are dominating the conversation, according to research conducted by several higher education professionals and Planon, the leading, global provider of Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) solutions for real estate and facility management professionals.

The discussion around the Campus of the Future has been building for years, and facilities professionals looking to align with their own university’s mission and overall strategy are focusing on these five trends in 2020: Delivering actionable insights Delivering accurate real estate and facilities data is critical for universities looking to make the right decisions on space and maintenance with limited budgets. Universities are consolidating redundant and disbursed systems, recognising the need for one integrated system to bring relevant data together in an overview that provides actionable insights and allows faster decision-making.

Improved reporting capabilities at every level – strategic, tactical, and operational Leadership teams must be able to communicate clearly to all stakeholders about important university goals – and stakeholders need to report to leadership on how they contribute and perform. Universities are exploring how an integrated campus management system can significantly improve their information dashboards and

reporting capabilities.

Sustainability and future-proofing operations Universities will feel continued pressure around how they can report on and contribute to global sustainability goals in order to meet student expectations. Social responsibility and reputation, locally and globally, are critical to the future of a university.

Campus access and safety Facilities teams aim to improve work order response time and student safety and satisfaction by offering tools such as apps and kiosks to give students better access to facilities requests. As online learning programmes continue to grow, universities must excel at accommodating commuting students and provide the right connectivity technologies, quality video conferencing services, and online security.

Event planning and utilisation of campus space Campus facilities teams are experiencing an increase in the number of events, as well as a diversification in the type of events they manage. Those who can accurately track how their space is utilised can be more effective at reimagining and redesigning spaces to support changing diversity on campus.

For more information about campus management trends in 2020, check out the full higher education research report from Planon CAMPUS | Winter 2020 | 17

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Veolia cleans up to avoid short supply Manufacture of new hand sanitiser will overcome shortages and protect key workers The unprecedented demand for biocidal hand sanitiser products during the pandemic means suppliers are now facing significant challenges. To beat this shortage and ensure the supply of sanitiser for their own key workers, resource management company, Veolia, has now turned to providing its own resources.

By using their own specialist laboratory facilities in Ellesmere Port, the company is now manufacturing its own sanitiser liquid to protect the workforce in the essential waste, energy and water operations.

Manufacturing the product are the Veolia team of qualified chemists normally used to sampling and cataloguing hazardous waste to ensure compliance with waste identification legislation and specifying the right recovery, recycling or treatment routes. The team has made over 500 litres so far in two variants - one based on isopropanol, the other on ethanol.

The sanitiser is compliant with the latest the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) short term derogations from the requirements for product authorisation, a mandatory requirement to ensure the safety of this type of biocidal product. It also follows recent World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.

Commenting on this latest resourcing innovation Richard Kirkman, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer from Veolia UK and Ireland said: "As a company with key workers keeping waste, energy and water infrastructure operational we are also focused on keeping our dedicated teams safe. The new sanitiser, produced in our own labs, will mean we can ensure they will have the supplies they need to continue their critical roles supporting hospitals, electricity generation, waste collection, food production and the water industry."

The innovative laboratory teams responsible for this product work at Veolia's High Temperature Incinerator HTI facility, one of the most technically advanced in Europe, and the largest of its type in the UK. The facilities are fully permitted and have gained ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS 18001 accreditation.

For more information visit www.veolia.co.uk CAMPUS | Winter 2020 | 19

Unique sports training facility development benefits from Marley’s pre-fabricated stacks Prefabricated soil stacks and a range of other systems from Marley Plumbing & Drainage have been employed

by Nigel Smith Plumbing and Heating, as part of its design and build package for a unique sports training facility at one of the UK’s most famous modern universities.

A total of 11 buildings provide 617 student bedrooms alongside the Elite Athlete Centre, developed by Bowmer & Kirkland at Loughborough University. What’s more, the £50 million project also featured the construction of a unique hotel where 20 of the 44 bedrooms can have their pressure altered to allow athletes to undergo altitude acclimatisation as they sleep.

It was during the design phase that Marley’s Technical Manager proposed the use of prefabricated elements for 110mm diameter soil stacks, providing CAD drawings and other details. As work progressed, hundreds of 2500mm long, storey height sections were supplied to Nigel Smith Plumbing and Heating via specialist merchant, BSS in Lincoln. As well as solvent weld connections on the ends, the pre-assembled sections included bespoke design features specific to the project.

The Contracts Manager for Nigel Smith Plumbing and Heating, Steve Zealand, commented: “This project was won under competitive tender to the main contractor, with Marley Plumbing & Drainage being one of three manufacturers under consideration to supply the stacks and other products.

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the design / pre-contract and installation phases, with BSS handling all the orders.”

Using Marley’s fabrication service helps contractors to save time and money, with the time taken to measure, cut and join the individual components of a soil stack system - and the need for on-site testing - significantly reduced.

Working with the Marley Technical Services team, drawings will be created for each stack element, ensuring every detail is to specification and fully compliant with current regulations. A dedicated team of skilled fabricators will then pre-build the soil stacks in a controlled factory environment, to project specifications and to the highest quality, with pressure testing on each stack as standard. Stacks are then delivered to a pre-arranged schedule, ready for when customers need them on site.

Steve continued: “We have created wetrooms within the hotel bedrooms, while in the four and five storey student accommodation blocks, which feature both cluster flats and en-suite bedrooms, our work involved connecting up shower pods to the prefabricated Marley stacks. We also made full use of Marley’s PVC system for all of the above ground drainage installation.”

CThe overall concept of the Loughborough project is of an ‘Active Campus’ where both individuals and teams have access to integrated facilities, which include a traversing wall, running track, activity courtyard and cool-down areas for relaxation, as well as a specialist nutrition suite.

For more information about Marley Plumbing & Drainage please visit www.marleypd.co.uk

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SMART TECHNOLOGY

Smart campus Better outcomes for students from smart buildings by Jonathan Pokorny, Business Development Manager, Siemens

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tudents work and live in an eclectic mix of buildings; from the venerable, centuries old to the ultramodern and everything in between, often on the same campus.

The question must be asked whether the buildings have an impact on the student experience, enjoyment and academic achievement? The answer is an emphatic yes! Old or new, campuses need to get smart to serve their student population effectively and economically.

Buildings old or new can become ‘Smart’ Buildings that interact with people, systems and external

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elements around them. Learning from real-time inputs, they can adapt to the needs of the people within them to improve the safety, learning environment and comfort of students and staff. At the same time, they can increase efficiency and resilience.

Toxic air At a practical level, for example, air quality in old draughty buildings may be better than that in modern “hermetically sealed” ones. As we breathe in, we inhale about 400 parts per million (ppm) of CO2, when we breathe out we exhale 40,000 CO2 ppm; it’s not surprising

that CO2 concentrations in seminar rooms or lecture theatres, where population density is higher, often rise far beyond the acceptable level of 1,000ppm. If the CO2 in the room increases to 2,500 ppm and beyond, which is not uncommon, our ability to use information drops by 60% and our initiative crashes by 95%.

Opening the window, particularly if near a main road or city centre, may just exacerbate the problem by introducing polluted outdoor air.

As if this were not enough, when the room is heated in winter (increased by body heat output at around 90 watts per person) the

atmosphere can become much drier and be perfect for the spread of viruses such as colds and flu, which hang around longer in the air when humidity is low. An indoor humidity level of between 40 to 60% Relative Humidity (RH) has been scientifically proven to combat airborne flu infections. As heating systems often dry the air, humidifiers are needed to maintain healthy levels throughout the winter.

Old ventilation systems are often poorly maintained and have inadequate settings. Draughts are not exactly comfortable and conducive to concentration. Controlling the CO2 levels can produce anything from 2 to 18% improvement in productivity.

Controlling humidity can significantly reduce the spread of viruses.

Indoor air quality is recognised as one of the top five health hazards.

Not just CO2 and humidity but also fine dust particles which can cause respiratory diseases. Indoor environments are potentially up to ten times more polluted than outdoors. The health impacts of poor outdoor air quality are welldocumented and have been linked to respiratory tract infections, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Indoors,

you’ll find these same pollutants intermingled with dust, carpet fibres, fungal spores, vapour from cleaning products, photocopy residues or building materials, which create quite an unhealthy cocktail of contaminants.

Light headed Many organisations have already started down the path of replacing old lighting systems with modern LEDs. One of the main reasons is to reduce energy usage. Certainly, switching to LEDs achieves that but,

in many cases, poorly designed or poorly controlled LED systems are still wasting considerable amounts of money (and as a by-product producing unnecessary CO2). The use of smart IoT sensors fitted to the LED lights can reduce energy consumption by a further 60%!

These sensors provide much more than just enhanced energy savings, they monitor the occupancy of the space and provide organisations with a detailed data driven understanding of how their spaces are used. By utilising space

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more effectively organisations can save up to 25% on their real estate costs. More than that, the data enables them to make decisions that improve the space for the users.

Wellbeing Each student values protection and the feeling of being in a safe space, knowing that their walk across campus is secure and that all buildings are fully safeguarded. Universities face the challenge of delivering a learning environment that supports every aspect of a student’s life on campus in a meaningful way and most significantly their wellbeing. Safety and security are a key component of wellbeing. Today universities can improve the protection of students, staff, communities and assets by employing technologies that deliver 24 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

complete situational awareness from a single location, an effective response to any emergencies, as well as instant mobilisation, communication and deployment of resources.

A new area proving of interest to many of the universities with which we work has been the access to real-time data; making the campus into a ‘living lab’, which creates learning opportunities for students to work with real, live data from an environment with which they are familiar. In 2018 Siemens partnered with Keele University to turn the campus into Europe’s biggest smart energy network demonstrator (SEND), aiming to reduce carbon emissions and improve security of supply to the campus. The SEND microgrid will be a ‘living laboratory’ for research into low carbon energy

systems and development of new smart energy technologies and services by university students, business and industry. Being green is also on many students’ check lists when selecting university courses!

Self funding If all this sounds like expensive pampering, smart control of energy use through good building management systems, efficient HVAC and intelligent lighting with IOT sensors can achieve very significant reductions in energy bills and carbon footprint. Investment in smart technology can pay for itself in a short time and financing solutions are available to avoid finding the capital costs upfront.

For further information please visit www.siemens.com

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HVAC SYSTEMS

De-mystifying the lowcarbon heat puzzle?

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hris Davis of Hysopt explains how HVAC digital twins are helping university energy and estate managers to identify optimum solutions for decarbonizing their heat infrastructure amid concerns over energy consumption and dependence on fossil fuels.

Against a widening backdrop of declared climate emergency, there is increasing pressure on university energy managers and estates directors to develop strategies aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

In the UK, there is a target of ‘net zero carbon’ by 2050 to end our contribution to global warming.

Universities are setting ambitious targets well ahead of the 2050 deadline and my company spoke to one energy manager recently who is aiming at 2030!

Many ‘low regrets’ options (where investment levels are moderate and there are no hard choices in terms of other objectives) have already being tackled, with lighting upgrades being an obvious example. Ongoing decarbonization of the electricity grid means reducing carbon from power

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is now reasonably straightforward.

Sterner challenges Heat (and cooling) however represent more complex and costly issues with a myriad of technological solutions and integration options.

Increasingly, universities have already adopted CHP (combined heat and power) as an energyefficiency measure. CHP produces electricity as a useful by-product of heat generation so, in a time when both electricity costs and carbon emissions were high, CHP made sense and was a win-win option.

However, while electricity costs remain comparatively high (compared with gas), carbon emissions associated with electricity imported from the grid have fallen more than 50% in the last few years as a result of a changing electricity generation mix (virtually no coal, less gas and lots more renewables such as wind and solar.) This gives energy managers a dilemma because the lowest operating cost option for CHP no longer delivers carbon savings, meaning that universities must look at other solutions as part

of their long-term energy strategy.

Cost vs carbon is increasingly going to become a trade-off where the lowest carbon forms of heat (and cooling) are not necessarily the lowest cost options. Meanwhile, electrification of heat (via technologies such as heat pumps) or development of heat networks connected to low-carbon energy sources (such as heat from waste) offer opportunities for campuses to really address the decarbonization of heat.

With complexity comes sensitivity An area that is however increasingly misunderstood is correct hydraulic design, integration and control of these technologies, especially when dealing with complex installations.

Lowering operating temperatures for example is something that needs to be thought about at the design and planning stage; it’s not a case of replacing gas boilers with heat pumps. Even with established technologies, such as CHP, it’s common for the hydraulic design and control strategy of the installation to mean that the CHP

operates sub-optimally. Hysopt has worked on more than 30 projects to optimize existing CHP installations where the hydraulic configuration of the system has been improved to increase thermal (and subsequently electrical) yield from existing installations, resulting in 30-50% reductions in annual energy costs.

It’s also a given that as heating and cooling systems become increasingly complex, and with the addition of multiple heat sources, systems are becoming more sensitive to correct hydraulic design and control strategy.

Using digital twins to make the right decisions Digital twins are not a new concept but it is only recently, with growing digitization and the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), that the technology has gained traction.

So, what is a digital twin? It is essentially a virtual replica of a physical system; in this case an entire HVAC installation or indeed an entire heat network (multiple buildings or campuses supplied by a single energy centre).

An HVAC digital twin uses the fundamental laws of physics to understand how a design performs.

It can therefore be used to simulate how a design or system will behave in the ‘real world. This has significant benefits for university campuses looking to grasp how multiple and complex technology solutions across many buildings, each with their own heat demands, occupancy profiles and heat distribution technologies are likely to perform and deliver when measured against low energy, low carbon objectives. In short, a digital model of an HVAC installation gives energy managers and building owners real insight as to how their system works and allows objective comparisons between the impacts of multiple future design options.

In this way, digital twins can help organizations to make the right technical and financial investment decisions, reduce risk and increase the prospects of delivering against targets by objectively quantifying ‘performance’ at the design stage.

Quantifying performance Energy consumption, CO2 emissions and investment costs should be as low as possible in an HVAC design and at the same time, thermal comfort needs to be as high as possible. A digital twin that provides dynamic simulations of

system performance allows multiple conceptual design options to be objectively compared against a range of key performance indicators (KPIs) such as annual energy consumption, energy cost, carbon emissions, comfort levels and capital investment.

Sensitivity analysis (automatically performed by the digital twin modelling software) allows the preferred conceptual design to be refined in order to be fully optimized to deliver against the university’s prioritized objectives such as capital cost vs carbon emissions vs energy cost. The digital twin provides designers with an engineering tool that encourages innovation while their clients get full transparency over what they can expect before they make an investment decision.

Closing the performance gap HVAC digital twins also perform another vital role which is to close the so-called ‘performance gap’ between design and as-built installation. How is this achieved?

By using iterative optimization algorithms for selection of hydraulic components (pumps, valves, pipe sizing, heat exchangers, etc). Crude guesswork, ‘rule of thumb’ and

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the unnecessary addition of safety margins associated with traditional HVAC design practices are all removed, producing the additional benefit of helping to reduce upfront capital investment costs by as much as 10% on a new system installation.

Furthermore, not only are these components correctly-sized and selected, the digital model also provides installers and engineers with information about how to correctly configure every component at the commissioning phase so reducing hours on site, removing ‘trial and error’ and helping to ensure the as-built design accurately reflects the optimized as-designed system.

Case study: Free University of Brussels The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has three different campuses: Etterbeek, Jette and Gooik. It also has various other buildings spread across the capital, and the hydraulic systems in all these buildings needed optimizing.

“The main advantage of a Hysopt digital twin,” says Eric Noels, Technology Expert Advisor to the university, “is that we now have a central platform where we can implement all the calculations for our complex heating system.

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was virtually impossible to switch from the overheated network to a heating system with a lower temperature using traditional calculation methods. But thankfully, the Hysopt digital twin was able to resolve this problem for us. One of its most important features is the simulations which have enabled us to work out and refine the best design.”

VUB invested €600,000 to optimize the heating system, but according to Mr Noels: “Now we’re saving €300,000 a year which equates to a payback period of two years.

We want to continue developing our heating system further in the future and use the Hysopt software for all our upcoming projects.”

With increasing technical complexity and growing pressure to reduce the environmental impact of campus buildings, HVAC digital twins bring transparency of performance at the design stage so allowing universities to make optimum engineering and investment choices that reduce costs and risk.

Rapid return on investment The value a digital twin will deliver can be considered cost-neutral as annual energy savings and/or capital investment savings delivered from the digital model mean that any costs associated with production of the digital twin are recovered quickly.

(Seventy-five percent of Hysopt projects pay back in under three years while capex savings on new installations more than cover the cost on day one.)

A digital model can follow the design process right through to

installation and commissioning, evolving with the installation throughout its lifecycle. The ability of a digital twin to empower and inform designers about future upgrades and extensions means that the approach should be considered by all innovative and responsible university estates.

CIBSE Building Performance Award Winner Hysopt’s HVAC digital twin software was recently awarded Product Innovation of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) at the 2020 Building Performance Awards.

Judges commented on the scalability, breadth of applications and potential to link to thermal modelling tools.

To date, it has been used to identify energy savings in more than 130 HVAC installations and, on average, found annual energy costs savings of 32%.

For further information please visit www.hysopt.com/webinar/make-theright-choices-for-low-energy-lowcarbon-hvac-performance

ASSET MANAGEMENT

Digital estate solutions The journey to digitising university estates by Richard Draper Bim & Digital Assets Manager, University Of Birmingham

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he advent of technology is well and truly upon us.

Organisations from all four corners of the globe are utilising digital solutions to better manage their business and daily operations. For the higher education sector in particular, these technologies are having multiple benefits in terms of how universities oversee their current and future built assets.

The University of Birmingham has embarked on such a process; implementing its One Estate Initiative to provide one true version of all asset data. With other institutions planning to follow suit, the University

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of Birmingham explains why it is digitising its estate, giving insight into how the transition will help streamline capital project delivery and control vast amounts of asset information spanning the university’s estate.

Established in 1900, the University of Birmingham is one of the UK’s foremost research-led institutions. Continually delivering high-quality university experiences for staff and students alike, the university is currently in the middle of a £1 billion development programme designed to create outstanding new facilities across the Birmingham campus – set in the

leafy Edgbaston – and the new global base in Dubai.

To guarantee these facilities perform to their best, the university is digitising its assets, to improve decision-making and ensure its assets are fully reflective of the university’s world-class status.

What is a CDE? The University of Birmingham desired a solution which would both digitise the estate and underpin its capital investment programme over the next five to 10 years. To form the foundation for this One Estate Initiative, a common data environment (CDE) was selected to

ensure single, secure access to all documents, drawings, 3D Models and data regarding the university’s circa 250 buildings.

Becoming all the more commonplace in day-to-day business operations, an asset information management focused CDE is transforming the delivery, function and maintenance of built assets and entire estates; mitigating risks, improving the availability of secure data and ensuring projects can be completed on-time, to budget.

In essence, a CDE securely connects and maintains both project and asset data, which gives supply chains access to an asset’s entire information from one accessible resource. With collaboration at the core, CDEs are going some way to resolving the notorious fragmentation which plagues construction-related projects, ensuring everyone is on the same wavelength and can access shared information appropriately.

What was the process?

To identify a CDE which worked for the university, we, the University of Birmingham, collaborated with asset information management provider

GroupBC. As a starting point, we took into account our unique processes to see how the software could complement our way of working. It was better for us to tailor a model that we knew could be customised to our processes, as opposed to selecting a generic solution which may not give us the adaptability we needed.

It was really crucial for us to identify what we wanted the technology to achieve, as these demands would then feed in to how the CDE would help the university operate. From there, we were able to create a system which we had complete confidence in.

Prior to the implementation of a CDE, project and asset information resided in multiple disparate legacy systems and was held by the university’s external supply chain, which was somewhat unreliable to say the least. A CDE however, will enable the university to streamline project governance, portfolio and information management, and ensure we own the data.

Hosted by GroupBC, the CDE can be utilised by the university, our design teams and contractors to track and report upon milestones,

changes and key decisions for project governance purposes. In effect, this will drive efficiency within the existing estate and the delivery of capital projects, and will also improve the visibility and control of important information and data across our Estates department.

The university has over hundreds of thousands of files and this new CDE will assure the safe storage and access of this data, all the while being fully compliant with the university’s security requirements including ISO 27001, a specification for an information security management system. The CDE also supports ISO 19650, ensuring compliance to BIM standards and futureproofing the system to ensure data is accessible and maintainable for years to come.

Furthermore, rather than wasting time identifying the right information to inform decision-making, the CDE can provide us with the information at the click of a button. Not only will we have a solution which gives us the flexibility to deploy our own processes, we will also have a system with the right gateway approval processes to keep things secure – something which is of

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high value to higher education organisations.

Keeping cyber criminals at bay As well as allowing staff and the supply chain to find information easily, the CDE will assure the information is protected.

In February 2020, the University of Saskatchewan, Canada narrowly missed a targeted cyber-attack, which could have severely impacted its staff, students and its operation.

Lost or compromised data can cause significant disruption to an entire university, not to mention the supply chain which might require asset information at any point in time.

Where cyber security is critical, a CDE will prevent any problems and allow universities to mitigate the risk of information loss in the event of an attack and a supplier dispute or insolvency during the design or construction phases.

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the catastrophe that is Grenfell.

As well as bringing into debate quality control, it also brought Dame Judith Hackitt’s Golden Thread into the limelight. The Golden Thread is now being championed across the industry and its adoption will mitigate risk, improve building quality and ensure information can be identified.

Up to 200,000 contractor documents had to be located ahead of the second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. The implementation of a CDE, owned by the asset owner, will complement the Golden Thread of information, creating an unbreakable chain where every piece of data regarding a built asset can be acquired at any time.

With a clear audit trail of all asset data and changes made, the asset owner can question and query a trusted data store to answer everyday enquiries about assets in the estate at any stage, even if a project is momentarily suspended or if a business involved in the

delivery collapses. Surely this is a key solution to one of the industry’s biggest problems?

Impressively, GroupBC’s CDE is already enabling better planning, enhanced communication, real-time information sharing, easier document management, smoother handover and maintenance of assets once the buildings are operational. It is providing the university with the foundation to open up their documentation and data, making it easier to link, interpret, find and manage information.

It is quite evident that this type of technology is strengthening the University of Birmingham’s position as a world-leading institution, and its success will hopefully encourage fellow universities to consider adopting a CDE for more efficient asset information management.

For more information please visit www.groupbc.com

BIOMETRICS

Eye of the beholder

The role of campus biometrics by Mohammed Murad, vice president global development and sales for Iris ID

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iometrics are changing the way higher education campuses handle a variety of tasks, from securing buildings to making bookstore purchases. The results are increased convenience, lower costs and greater satisfaction among all campus stakeholders.

But let’s first take a look at what biometrics are replacing. For decades, colleges and universities secured doors with mechanical locks and keys. Although they create an effective barrier, they have major flaws. Keys can be lost or stolen.

They can be copied again and again. It is even possible to take a photograph of a high-security key on a police officer’s belt to produce a perfect copy using a 3-D printer.

Once a lock’s security has been

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compromised, it must be rekeyed in an expensive and time-intensive process. And then new keys must be cut and distributed.

Key management can be a nightmare on a large campus with thousands of doors. Multiply that by tens of thousands of keys in the hands of students, faculty and staff and the margin for error grows exponentially.

Within the last decade, campus administrators began trumpeting a one-card system. That uses plastic cards to replace keys and much more. The same cards that opened students’ dorm rooms could also be used to purchase food in the campus commons, complete cashless bookstore transactions and gain access to the recreation center. Of course, that required replacing locks

with card readers.

However, like keys any card may be borrowed, lost or stolen. It’s much easier to replace a card than it is to cut new keys and rekey locks.

However, administrators looking for a higher level of security add a second identifier – a biometric– as part of the access control system.

The cost of cards – the plastic blanks, printers, ink – can add up quickly. The so-called “smart” cards include computer chips that make them up to five times more expensive than traditional proximity cards used on many campuses. Also, think of the costs to a university using any card-based system. Each year, administrators must create and issue thousands of new cards to incoming students and new employees.

A newer technology replaces

smart cards with smartphone-based credentials. Students (also staff and administrators) open an app to gain the benefits of a smart card. There are several upsides to this technology. The costs of purchasing and printing new cards are eliminated. Most people will not lend their phones, loaded with personal information, even to friends. And smartphones are protected by a biometric or PIN, adding a valuable security layer. The downsides? Not everyone owns a smartphone – recent studies show about 80% of U.K. adults carry one.

Mobile credentials don’t work if the phone battery is drained. The cost of maintaining separate access systems for the outliers would be very expensive. And current card readers would require at least the addition of Bluetooth technology to work with the smartphone credentials.

Now, back to biometrics. A biometric is a measurement of one of a person’s many physical characteristics. The leading technologies include iris, facial and fingerprint recognition. Let’s take a look at how large campuses are

using an iris-based system.

Students typically enroll in the system during their initial orientation sessions. It takes only seconds to take what amounts to a picture of both irises. The images are compressed into a small digital template that will be stored on a campus computer. These encrypted templates cannot be re-engineered or reconstituted to produce a visual image. There is no way a hacker could steal iris patterns.

This system does require specialized iris readers, but students get all the benefits of a smart card.

Within a second, students can enter their dorm rooms, pay for lunch in the commons, purchase a new computer cable in the bookstore, access the recreation center and so much more. There is no need to carry a card or remember a PIN. When a student approaches an iris reader in common areas, proximity sensors activate the scanning equipment. Mirror-assisted alignment and audio auto-positioning prompts assist students or staff unfamiliar with using the system. An iris-based recognition system is also

contactless, posing no risk of passing germs and viruses.

Faculty can enter classrooms and offices. Administrators can access critical locations such as a campus data center. Since a person’s iris can’t be lost, stolen or borrowed, there is no doubt about the identity of the person requesting authentication.

Every iris has a unique pattern, including those of identical twins, and those patterns remain unchanged from birth.

A system’s speed is important on a fast-moving higher education campus. An iris system is as fast or faster than other biometric methods.

Iris-based systems also provide unmatched accuracy with a false acceptance rate of 1 in 1.2 million events. Other leading technologies may return templates representing “possible” matches — requiring a delay for human interpretation and less accuracy.

Iris-based system are ideal for a college or university campus.

Students can wear glasses or corrective lenses without compromising system accuracy.

Safety goggles worn in a laboratory

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are not a problem.

Iris recognition systems provide access control that goes far beyond dormitory room doors. The systems are being used to bridge the gap between physical and logical security. For example, a student or campus staff member working in a data center or an experimental laboratory may access a room using an iris reader. Once inside, another reader integrated with software on workstations ensure only an authorized person may access that computer and its data.

Lightweight, portable platforms for biometric enrollment and authentication are being used by campus police or security teams.

These devices enable officers to verify the identity of students indoors or out virtually anywhere on campus.

The units communicate with the campus computer network via Wi-Fi, 4G LTE and other protocols.

Campus health centers are using portable iris readers to identify students seeking medical attention.

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the proper medications.

Time and attendance is another compelling use of iris-based recognition systems. Iris readers integrate with existing time and attendance applications or customized apps to note when student workers and other part-time or permanent staff check in and out for each shift. Hours are reported directly to the campus’ payroll software.

Another best-selling point of an iris system is its readers easily integrate with virtually any other campus system such as proximity or one-card solutions. That enables administrators to migrate to an irisbased system as time and budgets permit.

Why iris recognition technology?

Facial systems may be impacted by the viewing angle, lighting, changing hairstyles, glasses, makeup and even facial expressions. Additionally, the technology has come under attack by civil libertarians for its ability to identify people in virtually any public setting without the subjects knowledge or approval.

Fingerprint technology may be

affected by injuries such as finger wounds and burns . Gloves can’t be worn during an authentication process. And unlike iris and facial recognition, fingerprint systems involve contact with a reader – potentially spreading communicable diseases.

Overall, biometric systems can improve the security and convenience of any campus. A fully implemented system removed the dangers associated with borrowed, lost or stolen access control cards.

Finally, here’s a benefit that may lead to more students on campus.

Biometric systems, particularly irisbased, put a “wow” factor on display when parents join their children on campus visits. It’s indicative of a campus that puts a premium on technology. These solutions are no longer the stuff of spy movies or only for use at secret government facilities. They are being used daily on campuses throughout the U.K. For further information please visit www.irisid.com

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SECURITY

Make a good choice Iain Entwistle, Product Marketing Manager at Meesons A.I. Ltd, looks at the steps that can be taken to create a safe and secure campus

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oing away to university is an exciting time for students, but also a worrying one for parents.

Being in a new city, meeting new people are all the things that you expect, whilst at the same time reminding them that everyone needs to be vigilant against thieves and other criminal activity. Ensuring safety is always going to be the main priority for each year’s new intake, which is why more universities are investing in campus security.

With hundreds or even thousands of students on campus the challenge of keeping everyone safe can appear

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daunting. However, greater choice when it comes to physical security barriers means it is possible to choose a range of solutions; lower security for manned areas, through to higher security for laboratories, data centres and 24/7 unmanned areas.

Security Revolving Doors Student accommodation buildings are a good place to begin deploying physical security barriers. Most students now own a laptop, phone and tablet, which are always going to attract the attention of thieves.

Stopping them gaining access into

the building is the aim here and Security Revolving Doors at the entrances are highly effective at doing this. Mind you, criminals are prepared to use physical force to get inside and so the Security Revolving Door needs to meet Document Q and Secured by Design. These are widely recognised standards, for example, Document Q forms part of the building regulations for England covering the security of dwellings and SBD is a police force preferred specification and is regularly chosen by architects and specifiers. It is only relatively recently that revolving doors have achieved SBD status.

Products that are accredited by Secured by Design can be found on the SBD website under the Accredited Product Search.

So why choose a revolving door? They are especially suited to buildings with high numbers of students because they facilitate a high throughput, so accommodation units or lecture theatres. That’s because people can traverse both ways through a revolving door at the same time, whereas with a swing door it is often necessary to wait while the other person passes through. Swing security doors also don’t have any tailgating prevention and with users unintentionally holding the door open, criminals can simply sneak their way in. So, when choosing a Security Revolving Door you need to verify that it meets SBD and Document Q as well as having being able to eliminate tailgating.

It’s useful to have a Secure Revolving Door that can be configured with modes for different times of the day, i.e. day or night modes. For example, student accommodation may have a staffed reception during the day with free flow revolving door, which is then switched to single person entry and exit using access control

for out of hours with tailgating detection. That allows students to access the facility 24/7 even when the reception is unstaffed by presenting their biometric or ID tag.

Another consideration is building aesthetics and the desire to have an architecturally appealing door solution for the façade – and here revolving doors are a good choice because they feature extensive use of glass and minimal framework.

Security Portals In other applications a Security Portal, which are also available to SBD standards, might be the preferred choice. They offer similar benefits to Security Revolving Doors in providing controlled access with configurable modes (day or night), incorporating tailgating detection with or without biometrics and/or linked to cameras to record activity.

Biometric readers are a useful option because it avoids students being tempted to ‘lend out’ their access cards as well as losing them or having them stolen or cloned.

Security Portals are mostly specified where there are fewer people traversing into and out of a facility, although they can be supplied as dual units or set up in multiple units to

facilitate a higher level of throughput.

Book tagging Another option is Speed Gates, and these are suited to medium secure areas with a very high throughput of people and where a fully enclosed solution such as a Revolving Door or Security Portal is not required.

Typical applications include access to lecture buildings where there may be several hundred students wishing to enter or exit over a short space of time. Here, it is possible to have banks of Speed Gates to ensure rapid throughput of high numbers of people. Equally, Speed Gates can be installed in student accommodation buildings if there is a permanently staffed reception. We recently installed Speed Gates at Chapter Aldgate where the staffed reception guided the decision; Speed Gates are excellent at preventing people tailgating their way into a building whilst creating a low level, sleek, minimalistic aesthetic. Cabinet top lid alarms or increased height wings address the issue of people attempting to climb-over the barrier.

At Goldsmith’s University the brief was to provide a solution that created a link between the library book tagging system and the Speed

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Gates as well as controlling access in to the library. Students that had forgotten to check out their selection of books are prevented from leaving, dramatically reducing the number of unaccounted books!

Once the principles of choosing a physical barrier for the level of security needed and the throughput of people are understood it becomes a relatively straightforward process of deploying an appropriate solution for each requirement on campus. For instance, datacentres and research labs on campuses, because they usually have a low throughput of people, might choose an SBD Security Portal because it provides single person controlled access.

Likewise, Security Portals are also a good choice for gyms to ensure the safety of legitimate users and again these can be set up to operate 24/7 unmanned. We recently supplied Liverpool University with Security Portals to control access into the gym on an unmanned basis, with staff only present for a set number of hours per day. We recommended a C4 double entry Security Portal, a robust solution that ensured only students and paying members of the public 40 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

could access the facilities when staff were not present.

Another interesting application for Speed Gates can be seen at Halesowen College. Banks of Speed Gates have been installed at the entrance to the campus estate, well before users reach the building entry point. The university took this approach to secure the campus as a whole, rather than just the buildings.

This has created a much more freemoving environment for legitimate users once they had traversed the Speed Gates. The Speed Gates are fully weather proof and provide compliant access for wheelchair users.

Better by degrees The need for a secure campus is as relevant today as it always has been. Universities are exploring new ways to improve security against a background of greater student numbers and a more diverse range of threats. Campus security goes far beyond teaching spaces to where students live and relax. Each term there are alarming reports of violence against students, theft, criminals accessing halls and more.

Thankfully, there are solutions available that not only provide an effective barrier to criminals but ones that don’t inconvenience legitimate campus users. In many cases, as we have seen at Goldsmith University, they can be integrated into existing campus networks, in this case, the book tagging system. Whether its Security Revolving Doors, Security Portals or Speed Gates, we have discussed some of the guiding principles around which to choose.

We should bear in mind, too, that criminals are adept at finding a system’s weak point, and that is why biometric access control is growing in importance. It overcomes the problems of stolen or cloned access cards.

A safe, secure campus is always going to attract more students.

Parents, too, know that a college that places the safety of its students above all else is going to be a good choice.

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BUILDING & DESIGN

An active campus

How the University of Warwick is building a community focused on health

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ince its completion, the multi-million-pound Sports and Wellness Hub at University of Warwick has played a pivotal role in supporting the university’s ambition of becoming the “most physically active campus community in the UK by 2020”, having replaced all former on-campus health and fitness facilities.

From a commercial perspective the new hub is already delivering for the university, increasing its number of local community members from 175 to 1500 and counting.

Similarly, when comparing data, the newly completed hub has more than doubled the number of visitors from 13,000 to 27,000.

Delivered by contractor Willmott Dixon, the £37 million project was

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managed by the same team behind the university’s Oculus Building in 2016 who deployed their awardwinning experience for managing complex construction work within a live campus environment.

The project’s construction manager, Nick Preedy, picked up the gold award in the retail and leisure category at CIOB’s Construction Manager of the Year Awards 2019 for his influential impact on the project including the movement of 40,000 cubic metres of material and a saving of £1million for the university.

Speaking of the project, Nick said: “The sports and wellness hub was a hugely exciting and unique project to work on. The design of the building and the level of smart technology that has been implemented throughout is outstanding. I was very

focussed on delivering the project to the highest quality, and this is something that carried on all the way through alongside our design and supply chain partners.

“The scheme was fascinating to work on as it featured extensive innovative use of digital construction technology and elements of offsite construction, which was crucial in achieving a quality product on time and under budget.”

From a 25-metre, 12-lane swimming pool to a 17m-high climbing wall, the 16,684 sq ft hub features smart building technology throughout, with coolant technology providing the temperature for any given sport, and dynamic lighting automatically adjusting in certain rooms at specific times of the day to create the optimal ambience.

Working towards a shared vision The sprawling facility opened ahead of the Europe Corporate Games and was built to tie in with Coventry’s tenure as the 2019 European City of Sport – meaning the new building’s purpose always considered the wider community and how it could enhance sporting both regionally and nationally.

Lisa Dodd-Mayne, director of Sport and Active Communities at the university knew it was crucial for the hub to help people engage in sport, through creating positive experiences and more importantly, helping sport become part of everything people do.

Speaking of this strategic work, Lisa said: “Here at the university we are client-led, meaning everything we do needs to support the health and wellbeing our students, staff and the wider community. Because of this we wanted the sports hub to be more than a building and have a real impact on the lives of individuals.

“As we started the journey to create the hub, we agreed four core objectives: that the building would offer the best customer experience, include participation in its design, help to build a community and finally that upon its completion, the hub

would sustainably contribute back to the university.”

Modern students expect good quality accommodation, multiple dining options, and modern fitness and recreational facilities, yet fulfilling these expectations can be difficult and expensive. In 2013, the University of Warwick recognised that it needed to invest in its facilities and began to work on a development plan to create a distinctive campus driving participation and sustainability.

Capitalising on Warwick’s uniqueness With the intention of providing opportunities for indoor and outdoor activities – and linking the hub to other facilities via a network of paths, cycle ways, and activity areas – the university appointed an architect to design the facility.

Andy Mytom, from David Morley Architects, was involved in the project from 2013, he said: “I was originally brought on board to support the university in undertaking an opinion piece of research, which was a valuable exercise to look at what it was doing and what it might do in the future. With an ever-

constrained site, ageing facilities and a different demographic of audience coming through its doors, it was crucial for a new facility to meet a higher volume and aspiration of users.

“We wanted to enhance people’s lives through sport at the hub, so it was important for us to create a building which would physically match its purpose beyond delivery alone. So, we asked ourselves what makes Warwick distinctive? It has an urban heart that keeps getting more urban, a wonderful belt of countryside and dedicated spaces for sport.

“Looking at the campus’ existing masterplan we could see how well the university connects with countryside and football pitches – the terrain isn’t flat and there is a lot of wildlife nearby. We chose the hub’s location as it was within green belt land and could sit well within nature – with the now complete courts linking into the woodland - while also offering development opportunities in the future.”

User experience at the heart of design When working on the hub’s design

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the architects considered the psychology of participation at every level, looking to break down barriers and create a welcoming environment.

Andy said: “We came up with a campus-wide vision, considering new buildings, and where and how people will be active. The university’s estates office has a mandate to look at every project and how it will benefit people’s health and wellbeing and we needed to consider how the campus is going to grow and may need the hub to develop in the future, such as footpaths and additional green spaces.”

Involving complex construction work within a live campus environment, the new hub has replaced all existing sporting facilities on campus and is set to be one of the leading sports facilities at a UK university. Designed to inspire and motivate students, staff and the wider community to engage in an active and healthy lifestyle.

Speaking of the design, Nick said: “Although the project is effectively a big box, everything is focused on breaking down barriers to participation – there are no turnstiles in the building at all. When someone arrives in the hub they are greeted by the phenomenal climbing wall, and from the building’s heart you can see 90% of the activity that happens in building without needing to pay a penny. Similarly, the swimming pool looks out onto woodland rather than a busy carpark, making it feel secluded and perfect for everyone, from those participating in sport to 44 | CAMPUS | Winter 2020

relaxation.

For the Willmott Dixon team, user experience spans beyond the build and its involvement did not end once the keys were handed over. Instead two of its team remained at the building after completion to ensure the hub was performing well for the university.

As part of this, Willmott Dixon offered the university its specialist in-house energy efficiency consultants, who accurately estimate the energy consumption of buildings during design, as well as monitoring during occupancy to suggest improvements. This is similar to TM54 and is broken down into 12 categories, which makes for more precise reporting, highlighting design amends that make the building more efficient. The report encourages the university to invest in a strategy to continue to optimise the building to its full potential. At design stage, a realistic energy performance benchmark for the building was agreed, providing the baseline against which monitoring takes place.

Francesca Wilkinson, sustainability management trainee, Willmott Dixon said: “Monitoring the building’s usage, customer satisfaction and energy efficiency is incredibly important to us as we want to make sure the hub is delivering on its promises. To date we’ve saved the university over £20k just by making marginal changes. At Willmott Dixon we are involved from inception to post-completion, helping the university make it a sustainable

facility, not just a facility that’s sustainably designed.”

Setting an industry standard Overall the investment in the sports hub underpins the university’s vision to be a world-leading university that attracts the best staff and students from around the globe to join its community.

Reflecting on the project Lisa said: “I always see an incredible reaction when people come into the building for the first time, as it is so striking and modern – I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved. Not only was the project defect-free and delivered on time and budget, but Willmott Dixon handed over eight of our outdoor pitches ahead of time. This meant that we could begin to use this space commercially before the project was even complete. Every step of the way Willmott Dixon was outstanding, the team always came to me with solutions instead of problems, giving us added value whenever they could.

This is truly a world-class facility and we are certain it has delivered on all of our objectives, putting us where we want to be for the future.

“Why do I think this was such a successful as a project?

Fundamentally every partner brought into delivering our objectives understood the bigger picture. At the project’s beginning we all signed a physical agreement, which we still have on display today, which reminded us – even when things were tough – what we were working towards. Ultimately, we had the best project team and the best people on this job.”

The now complete project has won a number of awards including the ‘Award for Excellence’ at the annual Sports and Play Construction Association (SAPCA) awards, Secured by Design Gold Standard and a BREEAM score of Excellent – truly showcasing how this project is leading the way not only in construction, but in sport, leisure and higher education estates.

For more information please visit www.willmottdixon.co.uk

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