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Christmas is just around the corner and hopefully none of us will be spending it in the office, especially given it’s on a Saturday this year!
So once the festive greetings are exchanged and the last ‘out of office’ has gone on we’ve got some hints and tips to save energy in your buildings over the holidays.
- Reset controls – Who knows what temperature wars have gone on with the cold coming in and people being off at different times, use the holiday season as an opportunity to review tenant control panels with minimum disruption. Think of it as new year, new you, new set points.
- Switch off the lights – Yes, including the Christmas ones. The streets are lit up all nice and shiny, your office doesn’t need to be.
- Reduce fresh air delivery – Unless you have demand-driven systems chances are that you’ll be bringing in as much fresh air as possible into the building because of COVID-19. We’re not suggesting you take any risks in that regard (nobody wants the virus as a Christmas present) but if occupancy is very low try reducing the fresh air delivery rate or the run hours if the building is going to be unoccupied for long periods.
- Shut down central plant – As a minimum central plant need not run on the national holidays and your buildings may be shut for even longer periods so get plant switched off. The majority of BMS front-end systems will allow you to set exceptions for specific days so that everything returns to the normal setup after all the festivities are over.
- Turn off / turn down radiators – The weather outside may be frightful but that doesn’t mean you need the radiators on in an empty building. Any manually-controlled radiators around the building will continue to heat unless you turn down the thermostats or switch off the LTHW system centrally.
- Check frost protection settings – Who knows, we may get a white Christmas still, so make sure frost protection settings are adequate. EVORA recommends these be set to 10°C.
Merry Christmas from all of us at EVORA!
