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Energy Storage for Building

Services Engineers

Dr Hywel Davies

CIBSE Technical Director

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Questions that Building Services Engineers

may want to ask about Energy Storage

If Energy Storage is the answer,

what are the questions?

“We are looking for the man that can find the

right questions” Sir Arnold Robinson.

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RIBA Work Stages

So when will the engineers get involved?

Energy Storage is not a cure for bad design…

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What about the load profile?

What is the building for?

What is the likely demand?

What is the likely load profile?

What storage technologies are

appropriate to that load profile

and building use?

What capacity do they offer?

CURRENT

SITUATION

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Energy Storage meets SBEM….

Appendix Q is the referee – you can’t argue with it!

Guidance for the Work Stages

TM54 COMMISSIONING

CODES

CIBSE GUIDE M: MAINTENANCE

TM31

TM39

TM22

GUIDE A: ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

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Storage media, mass, and gravity

Fluid filled storage weighs something…

How much, how heavy, and where is it going to go?

Does it have structural implications?

Will the Building Inspector get excited?

Batteries – Tesla weighs in at 100kg

for 5kW unit at present.

How will it be held up?

Who’s in control?

And what is the strategy?

How will it be commissioned?

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CIBSE Commissioning Codes

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Completion of the Building Services

installation

Test installation

Commission installation

Handover of installation

(Documentation)

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TM31: Building Logbooks

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What have I got?

What do I do with it?

Do I need to maintain

it?

How long might it last

between maintenance

visits?

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WHAT IS A BUILDING LOG BOOK?

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Summary of the building, its main spaces,

the major plant, the servicing strategy;

A single reference point for key information

about the building;

A key handover record;

Source of information/training for the

facilities team;

A dynamic document – it is only useful if up

to date!

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CIBSE Guide M - Maintenance Strategy

• Link to Core Business

• Client, Policy & Strategy

• Priorities-Business

Operations

Compliance

• Design Stage, Operations Stage

• Assets, Buildings, Portfolio Level

• Types of Maintenance & Techniques

• Delivery Models

Provides

• Defined Basis for Tendering-Linked to Best Practice

• Flexibility, Prioritised-Budget & Risk Discussions

• Drive Future Designs (See also Chapter 2)

• Standardisation for BIM considerations

Estate Importance

Building Rating - ABC

Function Priority -

1234

Asset Performance

Function ABCDEFX • Condition/remaining life

• Energy efficiency

• Space utilisation

• Resilience/capacity

• Other form of assessments

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Thank you for listening

Questions to follow later….

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