New Building Services

Indonesia
3 September 2015

Energy Action (Australia) Pty Ltd

ABN 23 103 365 199
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Prepared for:
Totok Sulistiyanto
CEO
PT Namara Mandiri

Prepared by: Energy Action

Reference:

Quality Control

Author Dr Paul Bannister

Reviewer Chris Bloomfield

Report Number

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Edition Date 3 September 2015

Print Date 3 September 2015

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
1.1 Energy Action’s Full Suite of New Building Services 1

2. New Building Services For Indonesia .......................................................... 2

2.1 Design Brief Development 2
2.2 Energy Efficiency Design Reviews 2
2.3 Computer Simulation of Building Performance 3
2.4 Monitoring and Targeting 4

3. Example Projects........................................................................................ 5

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1. Introduction
Thank you for the opportunity to present Energy Action’s new building services to you. In this
document we have detailed only the services that we can readily provide to Indonesia. These are a
subset of our full range of service, but comprise some powerful and effective ways to improve the
energy performance of new buildings.

1.1 Energy Action’s Full Suite of New Building Services

In Australia, Energy Action offers a full suite of new building services for energy efficiency. These
are illustrated in the Figure 1 below. The services which are feasible for us to provide in Indonesia
are shown in orange, and are described in more detail in the balance of this document.

Desig Post-
Concept Construction
n Construction
Design Brief Design Brief, Green Star and Building Code energy efficiency
Development compliance

Energy Efficiency
Design Reviews

Computer simulation of building performance

Commissioning Management/ Independent Commissioning Agent

Monitoring and
Targeting

Figure 1. Energy Action energy efficiency services for new building projects. Services offered in Indonesia are marked in orange.

Because we provide the full range of services, it means that any one of our services provide a holistic
view of how the building’s performance can be enhanced.

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2. New Building Services For Indonesia

2.1 Design Brief Development
Every new building starts with a brief, and it is at this stage that energy efficiency can most cost-
effectively be incorporated into the design.

With extensive experience in working with buildings from concept through to operation, Energy
Action is ideally positioned to assist in the development of the design brief for energy efficiency for
your project. Typically this would cover:

 Performance targets

 Minimum equipment and system efficiency requirements

 Regulatory requirements

 Tenant requirements

 Efficiency assessment processes throughout the design and post-construction period

 Commissioning requirements

We can provide this service either as standalone brief or as a supplement or commentary on an

existing brief.

As part of this service we can also assist your design team in reaching a first-class energy efficiency
brief by holding and facilitating workshops (English language only). We find that the collective
wisdom of the design team often takes the concept brief to a better outcome than can be achieved
through simple specification.

Energy Action has developed briefs for several large organisations including Centrelink (Australian
Federal Government), the Department of Defence (Australian Federal Government) and Auckland
Airport (New Zealand).

2.2 Energy Efficiency Design Reviews

Once a building design has been established, there is a myriad of detail in the design that can have
an impact on efficiency. To capture opportunities as they appear through the design stage, we
recommend the use of our design review services.

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In a design review, we will take all the available information as to the current state of the design
and evaluate each design discipline for opportunities and risks in relation to energy efficiency.
Typical issues reviewed include:

 Architectural: Building envelope design, insulation, glazing selection, shading

 Mechanical: Equipment selection, system design (airside), system design (water side),
building controls, commissioning

 Electrical: lighting design and control, metering, lifts, commissioning

 Hydraulic: Domestic hot water design, insulation, commissioning

The design review report provides specific recommendations for each area. Note that our
recommendations do not just cover “hard equipment” issues but also cover items that have a risk
component, such as systems that have a high probability of failure in terms of energy efficiency in
operation.

Design reviews can be undertaken to good effect at preliminary and detailed design stages. A review
at preliminary design has greater opportunity to impact upon the hardware design, while a review
undertaken at detailed design can typically address control and commissioning issues in greater
detail.

We generally recommend that the design review is workshopped between ourselves and the design
team, as often the ensuing discussion produces superior design responses to those achieved
otherwise.

Energy Action staff have been undertaking design reviews since the 1990s and have developed a
detailed and comprehensive approach that has been applied to hundreds of project in Australia and
New Zealand, including tropical climate zone sites.

2.3 Computer Simulation of Building Performance

For any project seeking to achieve energy efficiency, the prediction of building energy use by
computer simulation is essential. Tactical use of computer simulation gives benefits well beyond
code compliance and green rating achievement. Key opportunities include:

 Concept/preliminary design phase: When the building design is still fluid, computer
simulation can be used to test key scenarios of building form, glazing, shading and insulation
to determine optimum selections. Multiple design scenarios can be tested to produce the
most efficient and cost effective design.

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 Detailed design phase: computer simulation at this stage is often used for code compliance
and green ratings, but it still has a valuable design role at this point for the optimisation of
air-conditioning design and control and the testing of performance potential against targets
set in the design brief.

 Post-construction phase: computer simulation of the finalised building design can be used
to establish targets for whole building and subsystem performance that will under pin post-
construction monitoring. With well-developed targets, the performance of the building
against target can be tested from the first month of occupancy.

Energy Action has a wealth of experience in computer simulation, having undertaken simulation
studies for scores of buildings. Dr Bannister, Director of Energy Action’s Projects and Advisory
Services Division, is a Director-at-Large for the International Building Performance Simulation
Association’s world body and President of its Australasian Affiliate.

2.4 Monitoring and Targeting

It is the repeated experience of the construction industry that there is a wide gap between design
intent and performance. Energy Action has the rare experience of closing this gap for many building
projects through our post-construction monitoring and targeting programs.

The first step of a monitoring program actually begins at the design review stage – ensuring that the
building metering enables adequate and well-structured monitoring of the building’s performance.
With a good metering system, it should be possible to align the energy use estimates from the
building simulation with the data from metering groups to generate a comparison between
predicted and actual energy use for major plant groups such as fans, chillers, lighting or pumps.

Having developed monthly targets for each major plant group from the simulation, it is then possible
to monitor each part of the building’s energy using systems to determine where energy use is
exceeding expectation. This in turn enables tuning and commissioning efforts to be directed to the
systems with the greatest potential for savings.

Typically monitoring is undertaken on a monthly basis throughout the first 12-18 months of
occupied building operation, and as such it is often integrated with the resolution of defects from
the construction. However it also typically includes a tuning component, whereby aspects of the
building’s operation are optimised to improve performance and decrease energy use.

At the end of the monitoring period, providing that defects and tuning issues have been addressed,
it is not unrealistic to expect actual and simulated energy performance to be relatively close,
enabling signoff on the post-construction achievement of energy efficiency goals.

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3. Example Projects
Project Roles

700 Bourke St Melbourne Design review, independent commissioning agent, monitoring

and targeting
NewActon Nishi – 2 Phillip Law Simulation, Green Star, Independent commissioning agent,
St Canberra1 commissioning management, monitoring and targeting
720 Bourke St Melbourne Design review, independent commissioning agent, monitoring
and targeting
357 Collins St, Melbourne Design review, simulation, Green Star, independent
commissioning agent, monitoring and targeting
478 George St, Sydney Design review, simulation, monitoring and targeting
44 Sydney Avenue, Canberra Simulation (refurbishment project)
18 Canberra Avenue, Canberra Design review, simulation, independent commissioning agent,
monitoring and targeting
Centrelink Greenway, Canberra Design review, simulation, independent commissioning agent,
monitoring and targeting
Flannery Centre, Bathurst Design brief, Green Star, design review, simulation, independent
commissioning agent, monitoring and targeting
175 Liverpool St, Sydney Design review, simulation
Chifley Tower, Sydney2 Design review, simulation (refurbishment), monitoring and
targeting
211 Wellington Rd Mulgrave Design review, independent commissioning agent, monitoring
Melbourne and targeting
Auckland Airport, New Zealand Generic development brief
Auckland Airport Quad 7 Office Design Review

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Winner, International Project of the Year, 2015 Building Awards London http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-
news/canberra-life/nishi-building-wins-international-project-of-the-year-at-the-2015-building-awards-in-london-
20150423-1mrgh6.html
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Winner, Performance Ward, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 2015

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