Building Performance Engineering the Art and Science of Creating Great Outcomes 2 I Mott Macdonald I Building Performance Engineering

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Building performance engineering The art and science of creating great outcomes 2 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering

A good building is all about the people... who design and build it who own and operate it but most of all who use it

A good building is simple to create, operate, adapt and ultimately remove; it’s cost- effective over its lifecycle; it respects its environment; and it is appropriately functional.

Every building has a role to fulfil – for working, playing, making journeys, learning, healing... for living. Each function has its own technical requirements. But human health and happiness also have a significant bearing upon a building’s performance and success. Low carbon lesson

Success can be measured by outcomes achieved. Burntwood wanted to grow heating, and solar heating Project from four inefficient 1950s 60% of hot water. The Is there a formula for achieving it? We think so, and call Burntwood School, London, UK buildings into a single school remained open it ‘building performance engineering’. It’s about striking 30% one – and cut carbon throughout the build. It the right balance between science, art and economics, Client reduction in carbon emissions by 20% relative has been designed so and applying ingenuity for enhanced outcomes. Burntwood School and emissions Wandsworth Council to building regulations that energy savings can while doing it. By playing be cost effectively added Architect with building form we in future. Not only is it now Allford Hall Monaghan Morris maximised daylight while a great place to learn, in avoiding solar heat gain. 2015 Burntwood won the Expertise Hybrid ventilation allows UK’s most prestigious M&E engineering plus low energy and carbon, specialist night time thermal mass architecture accolade, 200 acoustic and sustainability advice cooling. A biomass boiler the Stirling Prize. more pupils provides 50% of comfort 4 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 5

More than sport

Changing spectator and of three architectural Project broadcaster expectations, firms, four engineering Adelaide Oval redevelopment, Adelaide, South Australia and innovations in sports consultants and 20 event management specialist subconsultants. Client and economics, led to Modular, lightweight Government of South Australia/ a dramatic AU$535M components were used Stadium Management Authority reconfiguration and to make rapid progress redevelopment of this during short construction Architect internationally iconic and windows between Cox Architecture with Walter well-loved sports venue. sporting seasons. Brooke and Hames Sharley The layout was changed Expertise to accommodate the The overall planning Design management and different viewing needs of the stadium and its project management of football and cricket surrounding spaces also matches, allowing for year- focused on revenues and round use. And the project economic sustainability. added two new spectator Match attendances stands, an entrance plaza are now double pre- and a pedestrian bridge redevelopment numbers across the adjacent and the reborn Oval has River Torrens, linking the injected an estimated Oval to the city centre. AU$200M/year into the local economy. To achieve integrated, fast-track design and construction we introduced BIM to co-ordinate a team

“The redevelopment of Adelaide Oval was always about much more than football and cricket. The Oval has established itself as a powerhouse in South Australia’s events and entertainment industry and it is continuing to produce major benefits for our state.” John Olsen Chairman, Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority 6 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 7

Enhanced Beach life

In the 19th century it was piers jutting out to sea that Project outcomes attracted fun seekers to Brighton’s seafront. When British Airways i360, Brighton, UK architect-entrepreneurs Marks Barfield proposed a 21st century attraction – a landmark tower with an Client ascending/descending observation pod – the holiday Schools where children learn better. Hospitals Brighton & Hove Council town jumped at the opportunity to create the focus where patients heal faster. Stadia where the play for wider urban rejuvenation. The UFO-like pod Architect of the British Airways i360 travels skyward from a is unforgettable (and the revenues unbeatable). Marks Barfield sleek glass-clad podium structure engineered by Offices where staff are happier, healthier and Mott MacDonald. The podium transitions between Expertise the sci-fi tower, the shingle beach, and neighbouring, Façade engineering more productive. Transport terminals that newly restored, Regency pavilions. Its façade is are, in themselves, great destinations. stylishly minimal but engineered to marine standards, to cope with everything that exuberant summertime crowds and raging winter storms can throw at it. They’re some of the ways we define enhanced outcomes. How about you?

Making the money work Building performance Preparing for change on Starting something New build, refurb, fit-out, engineering and over the horizon good – seeing it spread adaptation… whatever It’s about making the most Energy and carbon, noise, Is a building an island? kind of investment of investment, minimising vibration, fire resilience, We don’t think so. you’re making, it is a big the costs of operation, waste and air quality… Good buildings give commitment. You need repair and maintenance, they’re just some of the something positive to their value for money and and maximising performance criteria surroundings. That gift return on capital, not financial return. Building tightened by regulation. may be as intangible as a just at the start but over performance engineering: Add new technology, smile. Or it might be the the life of your project. changing work practices key to local regeneration • cuts resource use and space uses, increasing and economic uplift. At and waste demands for a healthy both ends of the scale, it’s • reduces capital internal environment the owner and occupiers and operational and climate change, and who gain the most. carbon and cost the only certainty is that • optimises designs for tomorrow’s requirements enhanced outcomes won’t be the same as • cuts risk and today’s. We help you improves certainty anticipate upcoming needs • provides for adaptability, and plan for adaptability resilience, reuse to accommodate changes and recovery over the horizon. 8 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 9

Strong persuasion

The 3.2km extension of London Underground’s incredibly hard – and highly efficiently. Battersea Power Project Northern Line Extension, Northern Line to Battersea Power Station will connect Station will sit beneath three buildings. Conventionally, Battersea Power Underground the old industrial landmark and its surroundings with a uniformly strong ‘transfer deck’, supported on the Station, London, UK the rest of the capital for the first time. Its stations, at station structure, would carry the buildings above. Battersea and Nine Elms, are focal points for major However, here the station’s columns and beams are Client development and continue London Underground’s tailored to take specific loads, allowing beam depths to London Underground long tradition of iconic architecture. They are be reduced substantially and saving hundreds of tonnes designed to help attract people and economic life of concrete and steel. We’ve also cut excavation and Architect to the area, but must also be affordable. concrete use by approximately 30% on the station’s Grimshaw perimeter diaphragm wall, by using alternate long With architectural partner Grimshaw, we’ve designed and short panels – traditionally panels would all be of Expertise Civil, structural and MEP Battersea Power Station with a calm, minimalist aesthetic. the same length. These innovations, along with use engineering for the entire route Large open spaces and a clearly expressed structure of the latest design for manufacture and assembly will make the station easy, safe and enjoyable to use. techniques, have delivered time and cost savings for But behind its clean lines the building will be working joint venture contractor Ferrovial-Laing O’Rourke. 10 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 11

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Setting your 7. project up for Keeping delivery on track At the start, the end and everywhere in between, whole-life success we can provide the programme and project management needed What are your needs, challenges to control cost and 4. schedule, secure the right and ambitions? We’re out to Advising on expertise, services and find the best answer – and it’s procurement strategy supplies, manage risk Knowing the service and maximise certainty not always a new building. requirements and of achieving your goals. demands of a building, from cradle to cradle, we Our performance engineering approach applies can help to ensure you equally to existing buildings, where the triple 3. get the right services, bottom line of enhanced value, reduced carbon Making the money when you need them, and fitness for changing lifestyles drives an work hardest to meet your changing increasingly urgent need for improvement. Did you know that we operational needs and are the world’s foremost shifts in the world around project finance advisor? you. We help you establish Our status is built on processes and protocols finding the right financial to get the most out of model to minimise risk and digital project delivery. 5. 6. maximise reward over the Building in adaptability Defining information lifetime of buildings and Through model-based requirements infrastructure, enhancing scenario planning in Industry skills in creating, through-life value and design thinking and choice storing and sharing data return on investment. of construction technology, are still in their relative we can equip your infancy. We can advise building to be modified on, and implement, 1. over time in response appropriate asset Concept design and to social, commercial, information management, master planning technical and climatic helping you to make Buildings often work as trends, and retain value. better decisions, faster part of a campus or a and cheaper – from wider urban system. We’ll project inception use cross-disciplinary through delivery and and connected thinking handover into operation, to realise synergies and 2. adaptation and eventual cut demand, bringing Safer by design recovery and reuse. materials, energy, carbon Fire and life safety are in and cost benefits for our DNA – so whether it’s individual buildings and a stadium, a metro station, the wider public realm. a highrise hotel or a retail mall, we’re in the business of keeping people secure. 14 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 15 ©Boogertman + Partners

Project The Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Client Patterson Associates for New Plymouth District Council

Architect Patterson Associates

Expertise Façade design

What you see…

Len Lye was one of but technically ingenious New Zealand’s most and compatible with local important artists, known fabrication capability. The internationally for his curved exterior walls of experimental fi lms and mirror-like stainless steel kinetic sculptures. His have become a New home town, New Plymouth, Zealand national landmark. Walking the talk commissioned the Described as ‘a temple country’s fi rst dedicated for art’, the space creates The Department of rises, the ventilation building’s power needs. Project single artist gallery to raise a sensory experience Environmental Aff airs, pathways are resealed Rainwater storage and its profi le as a leading of light inspired by the Department of Environmental Aff airs head offi ce, responsible for protecting so that the building’s recycled grey water supply cultural city. Reﬂ ecting Lye legacy. It attracted Pretoria, South Africa and improving the structure remains as cool 40% of water. Healthy the intensity, energy twice as many visitors as environment, needed as possible. The building materials were specifi ed and excitement of Len anticipated during its fi rst Client a new head offi ce that is oriented to maximise for the fi t-out. Use of Lye’s work we designed few months, including art Government of South Africa would act as a ﬂ agship natural lighting while local suppliers triggered a stainless steel façade enthusiasts and investors for its activities. We minimising heat gain. job creation and skills that is aesthetically simple from all around the world. Architect set out to fi nd ways of Sensors dim or turn off development. This was the Boogertman & Partners exceeding the DEA’s own electric lighting when fi rst government building sustainability guidelines. there is suffi cient daylight, in South Africa to win ‘Six Expertise Mechanical, electrical, civil, Windows open at night to and in unoccupied rooms. Green Stars’ – one of only structural, sustainability cool the thermal mass of The largest rooftop solar three in the country – and fi re engineering the building’s structure. As photovoltaic array in South raising the bar for future the outside temperature Africa meets 20% of the offi ce developments. 16 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 17

Air miles ahead

Ever since it opened in 20 new aircraft parking Project 1998 air travellers have stands and enabling 10M Midfi eld Concourse, voted Hong Kong one of more journeys a year. Hong Kong International Airport their favourite airports We broke new ground – it’s easy to fi nd your in Hong Kong by using Client way around, off ers fast, BIM to examine 14 layout Airport Authority, Hong Kong effi cient service, and has confi gurations, weighing spectacular architecture. capacity, customer Architect We embedded these experience and airfi eld Aedas qualities when we operational considerations. designed the main The award-winning Expertise Multidisciplinary engineering; terminal – and again on building was delivered to airport systems, people mover our design, with Arup, of a fast-track programme and baggage handling systems the new HK$10bn Midfi eld and provides leading design; sustainability consultancy; Concourse, providing sustainability performance. logistics and project management 18 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 19

Pushing boundaries Core skills for millennial with digital design entrepreneurs

Newcastle University building embodying its The Core has a wildﬂ ower Project The Core, Science Central, wanted to build a new would-be tenants’ values roof and an eye-catching Digital transformation is pulling in expertise Newcastle upon Tyne, UK business community by of innovation, collaboration seven-storey living wall – a providing home-grown, and sustainability. vertical garden supporting from across the supply chain alongside that of Client high-tech and green Technologies include wildlife and biodiversity the architect and engineer. We’ve been at the Newcastle University and innovation start-ups, solar thermal hot water, that also provides thermal Newcastle City Council conceived within the photovoltaics integrated insulation. The building is leading edge from the start. The result: better university’s own R&D into glazing that generate a major hit: Newcastle City Architect departments, with the power at the same time Council estimates that it performance at every stage of the project cycle. Faulkner Browns labs and offi ces they need as preventing heat gain, has already created 400 to grow into successful rainwater harvesting and new jobs, contributing Expertise Process mapping Using brainpower Fine tuning solutions Civil, structural, building companies. At the heart natural ventilation. Floor an additional £20M to From plotting the desired to best eff ect Using parametric and services and fi re engineering; of its new campus it plate and façade designs the local economy. outcomes for your project Algorithms are enabling generative design tools environmental certifi cation desired a landmark maximise natural lighting. through to planning the basic design operations at the start of the design discipline interactions to be carried out by process, we can cost- and work stages involved computers much eff ectively run through in delivering it, digital faster than by humans. numerous permutations technology makes it Automated fabrication of a preferred option. possible to provide is facilitating fast-track We set out the standards, information in a visual construction using describe the constraints… context, when and ready-made components and fast-track to optimised where it is needed, and and assemblages. solutions for energy, adapted for all uses. Data management carbon, light, structural and manipulation by form, thermal performance Enabling collaboration ‘intelligent’ software tools and much more. After decades of and apps allows a high frustrated ambition, the degree of autonomous tools, standards, working command and control methods and language over operations. All now exist to create of which helps to free integrated multidisciplinary human resources for what project teams and fully co- they’re best at – creating ordinated solutions – for and problem-solving. those with the know-how. cost consultancy design, sustainabilityand Total engineering Expertise Magma Architect LOCOG Client Shooting Ranges, London, UK Olympic andParalympic Project Steel ringsmountedon of reclaimedoilpipeline. Foundations werelengths with recyclablePVC fabric. covered insideandout trusses andcolumns, standard, rentedsteel structural frameused and costby25%.The cutting thevenuefootprint of thefourdisciplines, used onerangefortwo In anOlympicfirst,we temporary butdistinctive. low costbutworldclass, shooting venuethatwas Olympics wanteda Organisers ofthe2012 BIM andbull’s-eyes integrate multipledesign from conceptstageto costs low. We usedBIM keeping buildingoperating minimised artificiallighting, the fabric’s translucency for naturalventilation; rings createdapertures cost oftheenvelope. The our methodhalvedthe conventional tensioning, aesthetic. Comparedto its distinctive‘bullethole’ of plane, givingthefaçade pulling andpushingitout tensioned thefabricby off theprimarystructure, lightweight frames,braced but noothertrace. with greatmemories, returned toitsowner reuse. Thesitewas were recoveredfor games, allcomponents in sixmonths.Post- venue wascompleted a twomonth‘buffer’, the construction. Including contractor torehearse we worked withthemain construction, butusingBIM allowed 18monthsfor contractors. Ourclient disciplines, suppliersand Building performanceengineering

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Project Contributing to Centre Hospitalier de Friend in need, l’Université de Montréal construction efficiency (CHUM), Quebec, Canada friend in deed Client CHUM, Collectif Santé Montréal, The biggest PPP hospital project in Canadian Fiera-Axium, Acciona, HSBC history, CHUM consolidates three existing teaching, Infrastructure Consortium Embracing offsite fabrication research, and healthcare facilities onto a single site. Whether it’s by communicating It’s being built in a tight city centre location, on a Designing for manufacture and assembly (plus recovery Architect design intent to site workers, and reuse) is best considered from concept design Cannon Design rolling handover programme, to exceptionally high carrying out virtual dry runs stage. Our engineers think about how things go standards. We’re involved in keeping the project together, using BIM as an enabler and working closely Expertise on schedule and cost, with the aim of achieving of complex work sequences, with the supply chain at the earliest opportunity. Lenders’ technical advisor; ‘Silver’ accreditation under the LEED energy and programming robotic construction construction management environmental performance rating system. Reducing waste plant to achieve super accurate Throw away materials and energy, or design and build earthworks, or building kits- inefficiently, and you’re squandering money, carbon and labour, which is why we like lean thinking. of-parts in factories, the efficiency of construction is Taking care of people Improve safety and you reduce technical, commercial being revolutionised. And and reputational risk: it brings better project we’re in the thick of it. certainty and greater investor confidence. To us it’s common sense: safety is good for everyone.

Controlling change Planning collaboratively, communicating ideas and checking intent, working through details and sequences, briefing, training… we want our projects to go together right first time, so set out to create the right foundations for success.

Handing on knowledge Design and construction generate a wealth of information which is of potentially huge benefit throughout the operational, repair, maintenance and adaptation phases of a building’s life. Organised information can inform future projects for continuous improvement. Every client’s information needs will be different, so our digital transfer service is about ensuring you get all the right information in the most useful way. 24 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 25

Project Creating smart buildings Houghton-le-Spring Primary Care Centre, for enhanced outcomes County Durham, UK Client NHS South of Tyne and Wear

Architect After carefully creating a solution to meet P+HS your needs, do we simply hand over the data Expertise model and walk away? Absolutely not! Building services engineering

However well designed, Matching best intentions Optimising through- outcomes can all too easily We’re passionate about life performance Living, breathing, be missed if intentions are closing the performance Time passes and not translated into actions gap between design technology evolves, outstanding through construction, intentions and operational people’s expectations commissioning and into performance, working with and building use patterns operation. We can provide contractors and operators change, and the building The primary care centre in Houghton-le-Spring is expert advice beyond to guide projects from fabric ages. Whether the first healthcare building to achieve a BREEAM practical completion to inception to occupation. it’s a building designed Outstanding score. It combines ground source help owners and users by us or someone heating and cooling, photovoltaic and wind power, get the maximum benefit Monitoring, listening, else, we can find cost- natural ventilation with night cooling, and solar from the built asset. analysing and enhancing effective ways to restore thermal heating. A thermal wall maintains constant How is your building being building performance temperature, avoiding the need for air conditioning Buildings for used? What do its users – and advance it, by for all but the equivalent of four days per year. Annual healthier people your staff, customers and identifying where the real energy bills are 38% lower than a standard health Advances in materials community – think of it? performance issues are. building. Our lifecycle maintenance and replacement technology have improved They are questions rarely analysis informed both design and construction. the performance of asked and the answers are Prioritising investment construction products, but even more rarely known. for greatest effect many now also release Finding out can reveal Maintenance is harmful chemicals which amazing opportunities inescapable. The art of affect indoor air quality. to improve performance asset management is We’ve developed an that yields efficiency, prioritising investment unusual expertise in improves productivity so that you achieve the auditing materials so we and saves cost. best performance for can specify those that your money. We can help safeguard the health of Responsive controls you move to condition- a building’s users. Along A sophisticated building based maintenance, with deep understanding often requires skilful using an accurate asset of light, air, temperature, management to perform information model “Although there was a capital cost to noise, vibration and at its best. We can design combined with sensors achieving the Outstanding rating, we spatial design, it’s key systems that are easy and analytics to make to delivering better for building managers sense of the increasing set this against the wider financial and outcomes, measured to operate – or provide abundance of data. health costs of not reducing the impact in terms of human automated controls that happiness, performance respond to occupancy, of our activities and our estate.” and achievement. seasons and weather. Stephen Naylor Head of estates, NHS South of Tyne and Wear 26 I Mott MacDonald I Building performance engineering Building performance engineering I Mott MacDonald I 27

Project Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore

Client Singapore National Heritage Board

Architect Cool jewel Greg Shand Architects Expertise Building services design, sustainable design consultancy and façades advice

When the National produces very cold water Heritage Board embarked for a short period before on creation of a museum being shut down. The to celebrate the culture chilled water enables of Singapore’s Indian continued temperature community, it set the and humidity control. We goal of achieving a ‘Gold worked with the architect Plus’ award under the and façade consultant country’s Green Mark to improve building sustainability rating envelope performance system. Safeguarding by incorporating a centuries-old artefacts in double-skin façade that Singapore’s humid climate reduces thermal gains requires precise 24 hour and solar radiation. And environmental control. by persuading the gallery We achieved this by consultant that halogen designing a ventilation and exhibit lighting could be dehumidification system replaced by LEDs, we with innovative dual heat delivered a 24% saving exchangers that are 44% in lighting energy. Overall more efficient than a building energy use was conventional heat pump reduced by 28% and solution. At night, a ‘super- annual operating costs dehumidification’ process cut by SG$45,500. Opening opportunities with connected thinking.

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