- Reduce Energy Costs & Carbon Emissions by up to 50% by Increasing Operational Efficiencies
- Secure Financing & Grant Support to Enable Investments in Sustainability
- Future-proof Building Assets while Enhancing Sustainability & Brand Reputation
What Is A Building Retrofit?
A building retrofit refers to the process of making improvements or upgrades to an existing building’s systems, components, or design to enhance its performance, energy efficiency, safety, or functionality. Retrofitting can involve various modifications such as upgrading insulation, replacing outdated HVAC systems with more efficient ones, installing energy-efficient lighting, improving ventilation, or implementing renewable energy systems like solar panels. The goal of a building retrofit is typically to modernise the building, reduce its environmental footprint, lower operating costs, and improve occupant comfort and satisfaction.
Our team have worked with a wide range of clients and building types in order to enhance energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and costs by up to 50%.
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Decarbonisation Solutions In Action
1. Comprehensive Decarbonisation Engineering Design
- Site Assessment: Evaluation of current energy usage and carbon footprint.
- Technical Analysis: Detailed analysis of potential renewable energy sources (Solar PV, Heat Pumps , Building Controls, Lighting etc.) and energy efficiency measures.
- Strategy & Certification Option Review: LEED, BREEAM, CSR Strategy etc…
- System Design: Engineering designs for renewable energy installations, energy-efficient HVAC systems, lighting, and other infrastructure improvements.
- Cost Estimation: Detailed cost estimates for design, materials, and installation.
- Energy Savings Projections: Breakdown of proposed financial & carbon savings.
- Integration Plan: Plan for integrating new systems with existing infrastructure.
- Compliance Review: Ensuring designs meet all regulatory and environmental standards.
2. Project Formation & Advancement
- Feasibility Studies: Conducting feasibility studies to validate the project’s viability.
- Financial: Review funding and financial costings, including grants and incentives.
- Project Planning: Development of project timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Identifying and engaging key stakeholders, including project investors & local authorities, if applicable.
- Project Approvals: Obtaining necessary permits and approvals from relevant authorities, if applicable.
3. Project Implementation & Management
- Project Execution: Overseeing the installation and implementation of designed systems
- Resource Allocation: Ensuring appropriate allocation of sub-contractors & specialist contractors.
- Procurement: Developing a schedule of equipment and advance scheduling for same.
- Progress and Management: Conduct frequent progress meetings with client and contractors.
- Quality Control: Implementing quality control measures to ensure project standards are met.
- Timeline Management: Monitoring project timelines to ensure on-time completion.
- Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential project risks.
4. Health and Safety Standards Management and Compliance
- Safety Plans: Development and implementation of comprehensive health and safety plans.
- PSDP/PSCS: Implementation and co-ordinate the health and safety considerations from project initiation to handover.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring adherence to all health and safety regulations and standards.
- Inductions: Providing inductions for all personnel regards health and safety practices on the given site.
- Safety Audits: Regular audits and inspections to ensure ongoing compliance.
- Incident Reporting: Systems for reporting and addressing health and safety incidents.
5. Project Conclusion
- Snag List Completion: The contractor prepares a snag list detailing any outstanding items or defects that need to be rectified before handover.
- Documentation Review (Operations & Maintenance): Both parties review and confirm that all necessary documentation is complete, including drawings, specifications, manuals, warranties, and as-built drawings.
- Final Inspection: A joint inspection of the works is conducted to verify that all work has been completed according to specifications and that the quality meets the agreed standards.
- Testing and Commissioning: If applicable, systems and equipment are tested and commissioned to ensure they function correctly.
- Training and Handover: Client personnel are trained on operating systems and equipment installed during construction.
- Financial: Project financial overview & final account agreement.
6. Maintenance Package Post Project Completion
- Maintenance Schedules: Development of routine maintenance schedules for all systems.
- Operations & Maintenance Manual: Issue hard & soft copy of O&M manual.
- Service Agreements: Agreements for ongoing maintenance services and support.
- Training: Training for on-site staff to handle basic maintenance and troubleshooting.
7. Measurement & Verification
- Performance Monitoring: Ongoing monitoring of energy savings and carbon reduction.
- Data Collection: Collecting data on system performance, energy usage, and emissions.
- Verification Processes: Verification of energy savings and carbon reduction.
- Benchmark Reporting: Regular reports on project performance and impact.
- Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for further improvements based on collected data.
Our Experience
Tom Johnson House - Deep Retrofit
Lawler Sustainability provided sustainable design services for this project which is the largest deep energy saving retrofit project for the Office of Public Works in the Republic of Ireland.
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