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Proje ject Sta tart Date te - October 1st, 2016 Proje ject End Date te - March 31, 2019 Duratio ion in mo months - 30 months Proje ject code 2016 -1-UK01-KA202-024420

DATE: 01 DECEMBER 2017 - Prepared by: SWC

Learning Unit it 1 Description

Title Sustainability and Environmental Issues and their Impact on FM Description This learning unit introduces the learner to sustainability and environmental management and provides basic facts and principles that improve resource efficiency in or for buildings, covering different types of FM operations. It introduces to the key EU and national legislation on environmental issues. Overall Learning Outcome Learners should understand key concepts

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the environmental and sustainability principles in order to develop a coherent and efficient saving energies policy. Also, learners should comprehend what EU and national environmental laws address and know which the main legislation covering the various topics related to energy saving practices for the building industries. EQF level 4 - 5 Duration 20 hrs NLT ECVET credits 1 Prerequisites General Assessment 1 assignment: case-study (5 open-ended questions and/or multiple choice test). Learning Outcome 1 Describe the fundamental principles of environmental management and sustainability in relation to FM. Learning Outcome 2 State at least 3 energy saving measures for buildings. Learning Outcome 3 Explain how to manage and implement energy efficiency within the buildings in the short- and long-term. Learning Outcome 4 State the main national and EU environmental policy principles (laws) on energy saving practices for the building industry. Learning Outcome 5 Advise customers on how to improve resource efficiency in or for buildings.

Sustainability

• Sustainability has increasingly become a rising concern for all areas of life
• Increasing population size and living standards are resulting in degradation of earth’s resources
• Developing need to “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations

to meet their own needs” Former Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland.

• Societal requirement to take Earth’s carrying capacity into account across all sections of life
• Sustainable practices;
• recognise the needs of everyone
• protect the environment
• carefully use natural resources
• maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment

The Business Case for Sustainability in the UK Property Sector

The human-being as a part of the environment The human-being as influence of the environment

The current dilemma of the human-being

Sustainability

• Environmental, Social and Economic responsibility
• Sustainability is an overarching ethos covering three areas which must interlink
• Sustainable development
• Wide range of sub topics
• Impacts on all aspects of life
• Much wider than environmental and energy issues
• UN Sustainable Development Agenda lists 17 Goals

Economics, food, health, education, energy, infrastructure, equality, construction, climate, land & water

Environmental Economic Social

Optimal “Triple Bottom Line”

Environmental costs Social costs Economical costs

The target of the Facility Management

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Sustainability in Facilities Management

• Energy
• Waste
• Water
• Productivity
• Maintenance
• Lifecycle costs
• Total cost of ownership
• Organisation behavioural change
• Compliance with regulation
• Ergonomics & occupational quality conditions (air quality and velocity, temperature, humidity, illumination,

health & safety, etc.)

Sustainability in Facilities Management

• A wider view of sustainability incorporates;
• Social value
• Agile working
• Wellbeing
• Social value
• Sustainability has grown in overall importance within the FM sector;
• 35% say it is extremely important and 37% say it is very important.
• The main reasons for sustainability’s importance are;
• Resource and cost management
• Customer expectations
• Legislative compliance
• Health/safety
• Ethics and community investment
• ‘Green’ image

British Institute of Facilities Management; Sustainability Survey 2017

Environmental Management

The active management of society’s impact on the environment.

• Balance the use of natural resources and unsustainable materials
• Pollution control
• Waste management
• Natural resource consumption
• Public health
• Recycling
• Compliance with environmental regulation
• Development and Implementation of Environmental management policies

Environmental Management Policies

• Statement of key points the organisation wishes to achieve with actions to be taken
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• Waste
• Resources
• Recycling
• Compliance with legislation
• Policy should achieve buy-in across all levels within the organisation
• Policy should be communicated;
• Internally within the organisation
• Externally to customers and suppliers

Environmental Management Policies

• Regular monitoring and reporting of outcomes to ensure progress
• Promotion of achievements
• Consider implementing ISO 14001 (Environmental Management)

Improving resource efficiency

• Resource efficiency increasingly important as input costs rise
• Valuable method of reducing running costs and overheads
• Opportunity to release funds for facility improvements
• Environmental and social benefits to be gained by becoming more resource efficient
• Enhances the FM Company’s profile and can be used as a powerful tool to attract new business

Resource Efficient Scotland; Resource Efficiency in Schools

• What is the current baseline?
• Collect & Analyse Data (benchmarking)
• Electricity/oil/gas consumption
• Waste production & practices
• Water & waste water
• Review of any current resource efficiency practice
• Discussion with building users
• Scale of opportunity for savings is influenced by the initial building fabric and operations being carried out

within it

Methods to improve resource efficiency

Improving resource efficiency - strategy

Setting SMART Targets for resource efficiency

• Achieve buy-in from across the organisation
• Ensure targets allow achievement of numerous goals
• Consider achievement of legal requirements
• Set short and Long term targets for achievement
• Include anticipated costs/budget for each action
• Consider the quick wins to give early success
• Promotion of the activities being undertaken

Resource Efficient Scotland; Resource Efficiency in Schools

Reducing Resource Use in Buildings

Consumption of resources and environmental impacts of a building can be reduced by:

• Promoting better initial building design
• Weighting resource use against the needs and functionality of the building
• Considering future need for re-configuration or deconstruction
• Ensuring a greater use of energy efficient products
• Using recycled materials & reusing existing materials
• Promoting more resource efficient construction and renovation
• Reducing waste sent to landfill by using the waste hierarchy
• Placing a financial value on being resource efficiency.
• Involving the competences of the facility manager during the design

to reduce the resource use during the building operation.

Sustainability, Environmental & Resource Efficiency Opportunity

• Buildings are responsible for;
• 40% of energy consumption in EU
• 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU
• Older buildings typically require 5-7 times more energy than new buildings with 35% of the EU's buildings

being over 50 years old.

• By improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings, the total EU energy consumption and CO2 emissions

could be reduced by 5-6%. https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/energy-efficiency/buildings About 75% of buildings are energy inefficient Depending on the Member State, only 0.4-1.2% of the stock is renovated each year.

Energy Saving in Facilities Management

Data Accurate and detailed energy data is an essential requirement and allows for;

• Tracking of impact of changes in building management practices
• Comparison between similar buildings
• Comparison of annual energy consumption
• Identification of areas within properties needing special attention
• Energy management will assist in reducing the performance gap between building design/targets and the

actual performance achieved on site

• Energy saving policy will heavily influence;
• Reactive and planned maintenance decisions
• Replacement equipment purchase specifications

Steps to improve energy efficiency

• 1. Energy audit and measure: Collect the data and analyze
• 2. Fix the basics: Deploy low cost, high yield fixes to blatant energy waste
• 3. Optimize through automation and regulation: Integrate energy management into everyday processes

through use of modern, high efficiency technologies

• 4. Monitor, maintain, and improve: ensure savings are embedded and sustained
• 5. Does the operator have a full understanding of the Building Management System (BMS)?
• 6. Consider implementing ISO 50001 (Energy Management)

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Energy efficiency at all costs?

• What gives the best value for money
• Initial capital expenditure Vs payback period
• Complexity of new build or retrofit into existing space
• Requirements and cost of maintenance
• Accessibility of all installed energy equipment
• Is the equipment easy to operate
• How will others who are not familiar with the system engage with it?
• Eliminate as much as possible the influence of the space users to the energy efficiency and involve as much a

possible state-of-the-art technical solutions in this regard (in general the occupants take care much more about their daily tasks and obligation than the energy efficiency and savings)

• Is a consistent temperature required
• Can heating systems be turned down at night
• What are the hours of occupation (if possible look for tenants with similar working time)
• Type of activities occurring in the building
• Is heat generating equipment being used – can excess heat be re-used?
• Requirement for cooling?
• Position of sensors within the room?
• Use window sensors to turn off the heating/cooling when the windows are open
• Appropriate type of heat source - underfloor / radiant / air
• Thermal comfort for occupants (dependant on type of work undertaken)
• Ceiling heights
• Overall building fabric
• Servicing of heat generating plant and equipment
• Requirement for hot water
• Use local technical solutions for special cases (for example cooling for server rooms)

Heating considerations

Efficient Lighting Practices

• General move to LED lighting (take care about the cos f, resp. the so called reactive energy)
• Required Lux levels? In which particular areas?
• Anticipated occupancy and working hours
• Opportunity for improving natural lighting
• Glare on screens and IT systems from windows?
• Accounting for thermal gain from incoming solar?
• Occupancy sensors – are these suitable and correctly positioned?
• Sensors linked to building ventilation & heating?

What is the opportunity for renewables?

Significant investment aiming to result in a saving in energy costs over time

• Standard renewables now common and technology well understood
• Care and due diligence required to ensure technology and supplier are suitable
• Installation influenced by local subsidies for renewable power (need to investigate the format of these to build any

business case)

• Liability may fall to the FM organisation for installation and operation
• Performance contracts / Energy Supply Contracts to be negotiated
• Financial savings – who will be the beneficiary?

Renewable Energy % Use in in th the EU

Energy efficiency – short & long term

Short term

• Localised sub-metering
• Half hourly data where possible
• Data capture & analysis across estate
• Day & night consumption comparison
• Review of BMS settings
• Identification of significant loads
• Review of sensor locations
• Review of occupancy levels

Long term

• Comparative data analysis over time
• Specification of low energy replacement plant
• Installation of renewable technology
• Localised energy generation and storage
• Refurbishment of building fabric
• Changing of occupant energy ethos

Key directives relevant to buildings:

• The European Performance of Buildings Directive 2002 (EPBD)
• The Energy Services Directive 2006 (ESD)
• The Renewable Energy Supply Directive 2009 (RES)
• The EPBD recast of 2010
• Energy Efficiency Directive 2012
• Construction Products Regulation 2011
• Waste Framework Directive 2008

It is important for facilities managers to understand the driving forces behind the change in the industry Through Legislation, emphasis has moved towards enhanced energy performance across the building sector.

EU Policy for the Building Industry

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Scientific body established in 1988 by the United Nations.
• The IPCC advises member governments on the impact of human activities on climate change.
• IPCC publishes climate assessment reports, the latest (Fifth) of which was completed in 2014.
• IPPC 2014 report indicates an increase in certainty that humans are responsible for global warming.

From 90% - “very likely” in the 2007 report to 95% - “extremely likely” now.

Climate Change and Energy Conservation Legislation

• The Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed at the 1992 United

Nations - UNCED in Rio de Janeiro and has been ratified by 190 countries.

• It sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to address climate change.
• In 2015, all (then) 196 then parties to the convention came together for the UN

Climate Change Conference in Paris. The Paris Agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016

• The Paris Agreement, aimed at limiting global warming to less than two degrees

Celsius, and pursue efforts to limit the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius

Climate Change and Energy Conservation

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EU Policy related to Energy Performance of Buildings

• The European Commission (EC) is particularly active in energy policy-making.
• 2005 - principle of mandatory energy policy requirements for member states introduced.
• In 2007, the EU was the largest importer of gas and oil in the world.
• The current Energy Policy for Europe emphases energy security, the promotion of energy

efficiency and the deployment of renewable and sustainable energy sources. Further legislation includes

• EU Emissions Trading System
• Industrial Emissions Directive
• Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive Recast 2010

The EPBD Recast 2010 enhanced and expanded on the 2002 Directive. The main objective is to achieve nearly zero energy new buildings mainly based on renewable energy sources by 2020.

• Public Buildings: requires all new buildings to be (NZEB) by public bodies by 31st

December 2018

• Near Zero Energy Buildings: requires all new buildings to be (NZEB) by 31st December

2020

• Cost Optimal Performance: takes into account the cost implications over the life cycle of

the building including investment, maintenance, operating costs and energy savings

• System Requirements: in respect to installation, sizing, adjustment and controls.
• Alternative Energy Systems: feasibility to be given due consideration prior to construction
• Energy Performance Certificates: The introduction of more rigorous inspection, display

and monitoring procedures

• Inspection programmes: for heating and air conditioning plant
• Minimum energy performance requirements: for new buildings, major renovations and

replacement or retrofit of building elements

• Lists of national financial measures: to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.

Energy Efficiency Directive

Sets out energy savings requirements for EU countries' buildings. EU countries must;

• Make energy efficient renovations to at least 3% of central government buildings
• Only purchase government buildings which are highly energy efficient
• Draw-up long-term national building renovation strategies
• Draw up strategies to show how they will invest in the renovation of residential and commercial buildings

National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs) Revised every three years and reported annually, NEEAPs set out;

• estimated energy consumption
• planned energy efficiency measures
• the improvements individual EU countries expect to achieve

Contacts

Coordinator SOUTH WEST COLLEGE (SWC) Mountjoy Road 2 Omagh Tyrone, BT79 7AH United Kingdom Phone:+448456031881 Website: www.swc.ac.uk Email: defmaproject@gmail.com