Projects
Successful outcomes and solutions
Energy Strategy for HIP funding
ASHRAE Guideline 14
2018-present
As an employee and in partnership with clients, Chris has led and consulted on bespoke modelling projects. This involves calibrated simulation of healthcare estates. My role integrates with the full-service offering of teams including architects, engineers, and cost consultancy. The strategy involves modelling a calibrated “baseline”. This is then used to test heat delivery strategies.
A typical project delivers costed decarbonisation strategies for healthcare estates targeting HIP funding.
Bancelles
ASHRAE 90.1
In progress
30,000 sq.m of prime office space located in Paris, comprising of refurbishment and new build and with a target of LEED Gold. The client requires guidance, direction and training for their junior building physicist in LEED and ASHRAE. ASHRAE 90.1 is not something that a novice can set out to achieve themselves. Even the seasoned modeller can make painful mistakes – I speak from experience.
District Heat
CP1 Stage 2 assessments
2017
Early-stage district heat feasibility applying CIBSE CP1 “Heat networks code of practice”. Our scope was aligned to meet as many of the “Objective 2” assessments as possible (given that CP1 had only just been published). Extensive work in Excel was done to model and aggregate utility data to load profile their site and review CHP and heat pump scenarios for financial modelling.
Castle Mills
Architect: BDP, Residential
2019
Castle Mills will provide high quality apartments overlooking Clifford’s Tower with a varied 'roofscape', to compliment York’s historic skyline. 106 dwellings will be created (including affordable flats) while shops and cafes will be created on the ground floor. Respect for the historic Eye of York and York Castle as well as the council’s ambitious climate action plan (28% better than Part L) meant some interesting constraints.
My vision was to design the simplest and most flexible servicing possible to each apartment and speculative commercial space whilst providing community scale low carbon heating infrastructure.
UCL Student Centre
Bloomsbury, Nicholas Hare Architects
2017
The BREEAM Outstanding Student Centre forms part of a major transformation for University College London, setting a benchmark of excellence for all future UCL development projects. It has been designed and constructed on the last piece of undeveloped land in the local conservation area, adjacent to the famous Bloomsbury Theatre.
A mixed mode building with a central atrium for natural ventilation when outside conditions allowed. The energy-focused design, including predicted energy usage (CIBSE TM54) was modelled using IDA ICE’s unique fully coupled simulation model.
