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Asset register, data collection, management and analysis
INNOVATION GATEWAY
Challenge Guidance for Round 1 2017
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Asset register, data collection, management and analysis
Predicting plant and equipment failures
The Challenge
The Innovation Gateway partners carry out regular plant and equipment maintenance to prevent
problems arising, and ensure compliance with regulations. However, plant and equipment can still fail
with little or no warning resulting in the need for unscheduled, and often urgent, reactive maintenance.
Reactive maintenance approaches are often less efficient, and in some cases result in the need for
full replacement, or the evacuation of buildings.
The Solution
Do you have an innovation that can identify, predict and alert the obsolescence or malfunctioning of
plant and equipment? Can the solution identify or predict when equipment requires maintenance, and
so reduce maintenance costs, downtime, and the requirement for non-scheduled replacement?
The Innovation Gateway partners are open to all solutions across a range of plant and equipment.
They are particularly interested in innovations that will reduce the reliance on follow-up visual
inspections to identify the cause.
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
Current solutions:
Some Innovation Gateway partners are piloting approaches based on harmonics and vibration. Whilst
these approaches alert them to changes, they do not inform them of causes. Follow up visual
inspections are then required.
Examples of plant and equipment partners are keen to monitor:
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Hot and cold water pump sets
Boilers / heating plant
HVAC
Generators
Lifts/passenger conveyors
Air Handling Units
Chillers and associated motors and pumps
Toilets (for blockages)
UPSs
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Reducing water use and waste
The Challenge
The Innovation Gateway partners see water as a resource that needs to be better managed,
particularly as some are operating in water-constrained areas. They have set targets for water use
reduction, but face high water consumption. Some examples of areas where significant reductions
could be achieved are toilets, pipe leakages, and cooling towers.
The Solution
Do you have an innovation that can reduce water use or waste (particularly potable water)? Or a
solution that that can help to manage water more efficiently, or increase the use of recycled water?
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
Current solutions:
The Innovation Gateway partners have some solutions for reducing tap flow rates and are aware of
solutions for toilets such that use displaced air and water. In the past, they have looked at harvesting
rainwater, but the payback period was too long for the solutions available at the time.
Criteria:
 Cost of solution and payback time less than 5 years
 Ability to integrate into existing water infrastructure
 Can work across a portfolio of buildings
 User perception to be at least as good as the solution it replaces
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Improving the maintenance of gutters
The Challenge
Gutter clearance represents a maintenance challenge for the Innovation Gateway partners. In many
cases they face access issues due to the height of gutters, and issues relating to the expense of
access equipment and the proximity of neighbouring trees. Security restrictions also create the need
for maintenance staff to be escorted, incurring additional costs.
The Solution
Do you have an innovation that can decrease the need to clean and maintain the gutters across all
building types, leading to a reduction in the need for repeat visits? Or a solution that can address
access issues whilst meeting health and safety / regulatory requirements?
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
Current solutions:
One Innovation Gateway partner is currently trialling a high reach vacuum system.
Criteria:
We are interested in solutions for both domestic and commercial properties
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Innovative solutions to building heat loss
The Challenge
The Innovation Gateway partners manage large buildings portfolios of different ages, with variable
degrees of thermal insulation. They experience significant heat loss from front doors, high ceilings,
walls and vacant spaces. Due to the nature of some buildings, access to areas (e.g. roof spaces) may
be restricted due to security concerns. Some buildings face issues relating to listed status.
The Solution
Do you have an innovative solution that can reduce thermal loss from existing commercial buildings,
and provides superior return on investment and comfort, when compared to commonly available
approaches?
The Innovation Gateway partners are looking for truly innovative solutions including internal (e.g.
glazing conversion) and external (e.g. cladding) insulation for a range of different applications (eg.
walls, doors, windows, roofs). In addition, other approaches that can reduce heat loss from their
building will also be considered (e.g. thermal destratification, heat recovery)
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
In many cases the cost stripping back / dry lining walls to provide insulation has previously been
found to be prohibitive, compared to the benefit gained
Criteria:
 Easy to install
 Cost effective, economically viable ROI
 May need to take into consideration security concerns e.g. alarm systems and cabling.
 Complies with Health and Safety regulations
 Must be truly innovative
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Reducing use of electrical energy in buildings
The Challenge
The Innovation Gateway partners manage a range of multi-purpose buildings that use substantial
amounts of electrical energy. This energy usage is attributable to a range of plant and equipment
including HVAC, air handling units, fans, cooling, digital signage, heating and hot water.
The Solution
Do you have an innovative hardware or control solution that can deliver energy and cost saving
opportunities? In particular, the partners are looking for innovations that address the major areas of
electrical energy use in commercial buildings.
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
Criteria:
 The partners have existing BMS solutions, and are not keen to consider replacement of these, or
analytics to improve performance of these BMS systems
 Ability to integrate into existing electricity infrastructure
 Can work across a portfolio of buildings
 Payback period of less than 5 years
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Portable heating & cooling
The Challenge
The Innovation Gateway partners manage hundreds of buildings with thousands of people working in
them. When the main cooling or heating system fails, temporary solutions are required. In some
cases, staff bring short term/additional heating on-site which can be a fire risk and adversely affect
existing BMS systems.
Temporary heating units add additional cables and load to electrical circuits, limiting the number that
can be supplied. In warmer months, the partners face the challenge that in their listed buildings they
have limited options to supply cooling which relies on being located where they can be vented to the
outside atmosphere..
The Solution
Do you have an innovative temporary heating or cooling solution that can be implemented in the case
of the main systems failure? The partners are particularly interested in cost effective solutions with
high energy efficiency; and which address some of the challenges they face with current solutions (as
described above). Examples may include infra-red, battery powered, phase change or other innovative
approaches.
Further information and criteria for Innovators to consider
Criteria:
 Effective control systems
 Cost effective
 Energy efficient
 Strong business case based on energy saving and staff comfort
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