The journey to ‘Net-Zero’
Following the UK Government declaring a climate emergency in 2019 and subsequent net-zero targets, there has been a significant increase in organisations seeking opportunities to decarbonise.
How ONE can help you on your journey to Net-Zero
At ONE we believe in the holistic approach, with a focus on ‘fabric first’ and ‘data management’ to ensure sustainable interventions are both informed and measured.
As a multi-disciplinary design practice, ONE has developed a seamless workflow to help our clients plan, procure and execute their decarbonisation goals.
‘Digital Twins’ for decarbonisation
As part of ONE’s continued contributions to research, development and digital innovations, we have developed a Digital Twin environment which integrates real-time information within BIM, providing insights that:
• Closely monitor your energy consumption to identify peaks in demand, and root causes.
• Understand how spaces are used, heated and cooled to drive energy-efficiency initiatives.
• Monitor asset performance to ensure excess energy is not consumed as a result of faults or poor maintenance.
• Integrate IoT (Internet of Things) data with your building management system to optimise controls.
• Actively utilise and publish energy consumption data for public-good and national initiatives such as Demand-SideResponse.
Digital Twins can be used to set benchmarks, target intervention, measure value and continually optimise your operation, and help you to achieve Net-Zero.
Digital Estates
ONE’s Digital Estates team is continually innovating to provide sustainable, practical solutions to support the use of digital information during operations. By integrating Building Information Models (BIM) with the Internet of Things (IoT), we can unlock the power of visually intelligent data for the Facilities Management (FM) industry with far reaching benefits.
By leveraging data, we can generate insights into the utilisation and performance of a facility. For example:
• Monitoring how an asset is performing, driving proactive maintenance leading to reduced downtime, reactive repairs and improved energy performance.
• Identifying peaks in energy demand and the root causes by monitoring consumption on a granular level.
• Understanding how your building is used to drive strategic decisions and the management of building services (desk, room, space, zone occupancy level which can be interfaced with your Building Management System).
• Enhancing wellness and ensuring that end-users are comfortable (air temperature, humidity, CO2 levels).
• Monitoring and managing risks to safeguard occupants and property (for example gases, water temperatures, chemicals, noise, flood detection).
Our team offers a range of services:
• Specification of operational requirements in accordance with ISO19650-3.
• Creation of BIM for operations and integration with existing systems.
• Model conditioning enabling SFG20 integration, automatically producing PPM (planned preventative maintenance) schedules.
• Bespoke digital twin environments, integrating IoT data with BIM.
• Model management services during in-use phases.
Using BIM for PPM (using SFG20): Models created by ONE can be exported into SFG20 to provide operators with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules for all their MEP
A PPM Schedule generated from BIM using SFG20
The Benefits
Ultimately these technologies enforce data-driven decisions, benefiting building operators, owners and wider society. Benefits include:
• Reduced cost
• Reduced risk
• Carbon reduction
• Enhanced wellness
Integrated data and visual intelligence are important aspects of managing the modern built environment efficiently, especially as the drive towards net-zero carbon and data for public good increases.
You cannot manage what you cannot measure.
ONE TwinVis
Winner of the “Best Carbon Monitoring Tool” at the Building Innovation awards, ONE TwinVis is a vital tool at RIBA Stage 7 and beyond to assist clients to achieve a wide range of goals.
ONE has created workflows to implement Digital Twin solutions with fully configurable tools that visually display real time data to support Facilities Management. Our advanced algorithms and energy dashboards read raw energy data and convert it into meaningful information e.g. for electricity sensors: consumption in kWh, £/p and tCO2e.
Data is instantly understandable and actionable to drive:
• Decarbonisation
• Improved indoor air quality
• Compliance and efficiency
• Reduced risk and cost
This method of integrating BIM with IoT allows the graphical 3D model interface to be centre-stage and easily readable (rather than the user interpreting lots of charts and raw data). ONE TwinVis can revolutionise the facilities management industry, and open this technology up to non-technical users. Currently only large software vendors have developed expensive solutions to interface their CAFM (Computer Aided Facilities Management) platforms with IoT data, which makes the deployment expensive, complicated and unattainable.
ONE TwinVis provides a scalable, accessible and visual approach to managing data within a Digital Twin environment. Our approach is ‘start small, think big’, providing users with an ‘entry-level’ alternative, where you could start as small as one data-set, one sensor, one metric. All the data is available in real-time ensuring the insights are instant and, therefore, actionable - a pioneering approach to connect several emerging technologies and crucially, simple and affordable.
ONE’s Worcester HQ ONE TwinVis implementation helped with monitoring and visualising energy consumption, carbon emissions and IAQ. This was a vital step towards decarbonisation and achieving carbon neutral certification in 2023.
ONE TwinVis
ONE TwinVis offers smart visual solutions that assist building owners and operators with the interpretation of data within Digital Twin environments. Visual data promotes better analysis, enhances response times, identifies patterns and finds errors.
These intuitive tools allow users to assess, analyse, articulate and act on decisions that drive value with the ultimate goal of allowing for optimisation, automation and prediction. Examples include:
• Sprites that allow you to easily identify the location and type of sensor/s in the real world.
• Heatmaps associated to spaces displaying a range of data-streams such as temperature, air flow, humidity, CO2, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or particulate matter (PM) levels and occupancy profiling.
• Data can be mapped to objects and spaces to illustrate potential issues or changes in
In this example, ONE TwinVis allows for the integration of large datasets from the existing CHP network such as consumption, flow temperature, power, volume flow, space temperature, etc within the 3D model and enables data visualisation.
The system performance is viewed as a heatmap for each individual space. This allows the client to identify patterns and take data-driven decisions, set thresholds for each space and each data type and automate actions. This approach allows the prevention of overheating and underheating of individual spaces, reducing consumption and ultimately reducing financial costs attached to this. Furthermore, it improves the occupants’ comfort and wellbeing.
Decarbonisation Strategies
• Our digital estates team delivered decarbonisation consultancy services to the University of Worcester (UoW) as part of their Low Carbon Skills Phase 1 to further enhance the University of Worcester Net Zero Strategy. Our work formed the basis for the award of further grant funding (SALIX) and formed the backbone of the UoW business case to demonstrate which technologies were the most effective and valuable to contribute to their desired targets helping secure a further grant through Salix funding.
• Our team held numerous learning workshops with the Estates, Facilities and Energy departments to familiarise the team with the concept of using digital twin environments to drive sustainable outcomes. Encouraged by our findings, the UoW further instructed ONE to complete an ‘improvement report’, which included a roadmap, and detailed assessment of their existing digital maturity, identifying opportunities for lean working practices & the implementation of digital twin technologies to drive decarbonisation throughout the University’s
ONE were engaged to undertake a review of the fossil-fuel heating plant within one of the UoW teaching blocks. Our report provided guidance on feasible options for both heat generation and emitter plant, as well as anticipated budget costs for installation, ongoing maintenance and running costs including technologies / grant funds available to offset additional running costs, with the aim of reducing energy consumption and decarbonisation
ONE are working with the Birmingham CIty University on a R&D Case study for their campus wide decarbonisation feasability study. We are currently at the early stakeholder engagement stage and are collating existing data that can then be used when suggestiong and simulationg energy decarbonisation strategies. We will use off the shelve software for high level simulations as well as bespoke solutions such as IoT Integration for indoro air quality, space management and current monitoring sensors for operational carbon emmision improvwements..
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