Improved Thermal Comfort for British Gas

Benefits Delivered: Reduced cold draft complaints by 41%%, on top of saving 12% on HVAC bill with FCUs control strategy. 30T reduction in carbon emissions equivalent to planting 1,000 trees.

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Results

12%

Reduction on their HVAC bill

41%

Reduction in temperature complaints from staff

30T

Reduction in carbon emissions (equivalent to 1,000 trees planted).

1 week

Project delivery

Client Testimonial

Number of verbal complaints received by FM teams dropped from 5 daily, to only a few per week.

Facilities Manager at British Gas

The Building

SPINNEYSIDE, LEICESTER

opened in 2003

100,000 square feet office, with 3 floors

Core AHU with 256 FCUs

Trend BMS

The Objective

Improve comfort

while reducing energy bills

British Gas were looking for innovative ways to reduce their buildings’ energy use and carbon emissions, while maintaining high comfort and air quality levels for staff.

Even though the building was already well optimised by the FM team, they were looking to make further improvements using smart building innovation.

SOLUTION

Our system securely and anonymously detects occupancy levels and connects to the BMS via BACnet/IP. A demand-based HVAC control strategy was commissioned, which now allows the building to ‘breathe’ in line with real-time occupancy and significantly reduced cold draft complaints.” quality throughout the
building, including CO2 levels, humidity and temperature. This data is easily available to the FM team on LightFi’s Portal, via web or mobile interface.

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