CASE STUDY NHS Tayside CEF CHP ENERGY CENTRE PROJECT SUMMARY: PROJECT OVERVIEW CLIENT: Tayside Health Board Tayside Health Board oversees the and upgrades to associated plant and PROJECT: healthcare services in Angus, Dundee and equipment, the chilling system, the Ninewells Hospital, Perth Perth and Kinross, which employs around building management system (BMS) and Royal Infirmary and 14,000 workers and provides healthcare for lighting. Perth Royal Infirmary benefited Stracathro Hospital a population of around 415,000. The estate from lighting upgrades and other site TIMESCALE: includes three major hospitals (Ninewells, improvements, with lighting upgrades Sept 2015 - March 2017 Perth Royal Infirmary, Stracathro), being installed at Stracathro Hospital. + 25 years operation and numerous community hospitals, 60 GP Tayside Health Board wanted to invest in maintenance surgeries and a variety of health centres. significant energy upgrades to provide a The Health Board wished to make resilient energy supply to reduce energy THE BENEFITS: substantial upgrades to the infrastructure costs and carbon emissions, and reduce at Ninewells Hospital including a new maintenance backlog. Combined Heat & Power engine (CHP) > Guaranteed annual financial savings of £2.6m which NHS VITAL’S SOLUTION Tayside will use to fund the project, and operation and The Health Board procured the project carbon reductions and financial savings. maintenance costs through the Carbon & Energy Fund. In Our solution included lighting upgrades > Estimated CO2 savings of addition to designing and installing in all three hospitals, an upgraded BMS 287,000 tonnes over 25 the low-carbon energy system, we control system, an updated energy centre years are providing a comprehensive asset and insulation upgrades. > Dedicated engineers and a management service including operation, visiting contracts manager maintenance and lifecycle over the next Largest lighting upgrade to take for the duration of the O&M 25 years. The project is underpinned with place in a fully operational hospital, period providing planned and reactive services an Energy Performance Contract, which saving 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year guarantees financial savings and carbon The major energy upgrades at Ninewells > Lighting upgrades will result targets. Hospital required 17,233 light fittings to be in annual energy savings of over 4.99 million kilowatt We proposed a solution, which included replaced with high efficiency LED units, hours both an energy generation solution, and which is the largest lighting upgrade to energy reduction measures to maximise take place in a fully-operational hospital. VITALOFFICES | LONDON | BLACKBURN | GLASGOW www.vitalenergi.co.uk The scheme will see us deliver guaranteed financial and carbon savings for the Health Board. The energy solution has successfully exceeded financial expectations by over 32% after its first year of operation. We upgraded 4,080 light fittings and We visited the Jenbacher factory the mobile crane we used needed to made insulation improvements at Perth in Innsbruck, Austria, to give the be situated in the laundry yard which Royal Infirmary, and upgraded 382 light clients’ consultants the opportunity to serves the whole of NHS Tayside. We fittings at Stracathro Hospital. witness first hand that the CHP engine delivered presentations to brief NHS could provide the 4MW electrical Tayside staff about the re-organising of New heat and power generation generation and 90˚C recoverable heat the laundry yard, including the building equipment and upgrades to the requirements. We were also given a tour of a temporary platform for the loading BMS increase the efficiency of the of the factory to see the production and bay which allowed the laundry to system manufacturing process, highlighting the remain operational. The energy generation solution quality and excellence required from includes a 4MWe CHP engine, a our suppliers and subcontractors. Operation and Maintenance 9MW dual fuel combined waste heat services for the next 25 years recovery/fired boiler, an 8MW dual Great client relationship aided by Three local engineers operate fuel packaged steam boiler, three continuous communication and maintain the plant equipment, 500kWe high efficiency chillers, and To ensure minimum disruption to including over 1km of steam pipework upgrades to the condensate system. critical services, we kept the client running beneath the main corridor The waste heat from the CHP engine well informed on a daily basis. We of Ninewells Hospital. The team are will preheat low temperature hot delivered presentations to brief staff supported by Performance Engineers, water and domestic hot water plate about planned works, maintained BMS Engineers, and Business Support exchangers in 5 plantrooms, providing communication with individual from our Blackburn headquarters and space heating and domestic hot water departments, and worked out of hours are responsible for preparing the data to a number of areas. Additionally, we and at weekends. submission for CHPQA compliance, have removed the existing hotwells which allows savings to be made on the and boiler feedwater pumps on the One of the largest chimney gas used by the CHP and boilers. ground floor of the boiler house and refurbishments Vital have ever Our Contracts Manager attends replaced them with two new hotwells undertaken regular operational meetings to review and associated feedwater pumps on the We created three temporary chimneys the performance of the equipment and first floor. We replaced the BMS control while upgrades to the flue took place. works with the Health Board to ensure system with modern devices and are The refurbishment included removing optimum operation and savings. carrying out ongoing works to optimise six existing flues and installing five new We have successfully completed the the performance. internal flues into the existing 56m tall first year of operational services whereby concrete windshield, upgrading the the performance exceeded annual Engaging clients project team by earthing system including the lightning targets and generated significant energy demonstrating the quality of our protection system, and repainting the and carbon savings. supply chain smoke band. Due to space restrictions, VITALOFFICES | LONDON | BLACKBURN | GLASGOW www.vitalenergi.co.uk.