UK Building Compliance

Solutions for Building Regulations, Rating Systems & Methodologies

The London Plan

Challenge

The London Plan provides a broad set of guidelines covering the planning, construction and operation of London over the next 20-25 years. It has significant influence over the design of the built environment, specifically, the energy, environmental, sustainability, air quality and whole life cost approaches to optimising the design and operation of buildings. Comprehensive monitoring of energy demand and carbon emissions are required, carbon emissions must be reduced 30% more than the current Building Regulation requirements, and dynamic overheating modelling should be undertaken in line with the CIBSE guidance.

Solution

  • IESVE software provides tools for:
    • Dynamic thermal and energy capabilities for modelling overheating, loads, energy demand, carbon emissions, air quality, integration of renewable energy calculation of energy costs
    • Solar and daylighting, allowing you to optimise the use of solar energy on site, predict energy yields, solar resource assessments, daylighting and climate based daylight metrics
    • Micro-climate studies and urban heat island impacts
    • Parametric modelling and analysing multiple scenarios in a quick and accurate simulation, thus providing significant speed and support for assessing scenarios against a baseline model
  • Partnership with One Click LCA enables whole life cycle costing including life cycle analyses
  • IES ERGON allows the use of operational data to optimise the design of buildings and also to act as a monitoring platform for verifying building performance

TM52: The Limits of Thermal Comfort: Avoiding Overheating in European Buildings

 

 

Challenge

Overheating has become a key issue for building design, and the need to reduce energy consumption whilst dealing with climate change has reduced the options available to build comfortable, low-energy buildings. Additionally, in the UK buildings are designed for cooler temperatures in the winter, but this can lead to overheating in the summer months. TM52 informs designers, developers and others responsible for defining the indoor environment in buildings.

 

 

Solution

  • IESVE allows users to analyse TM52 directly within the software using an output in the viewer platform.
  • Easy to use, with just the click of a button needed to extract the results needed for TM52 once a dynamic simulation has been run using the VE's Energy Simulation application.

TM59: Design Methodology for the Assessment of Overheating Risk in Homes

Challenge

TM59 specifies how the overheating risk assessment is to be performed, especially as it pertains to input profiles for occupancy. Simulation must account for 24 hr occupancy, requires a detailed blind analysis model if incorporated in the strategy, recommends a noise and pollutant study to be undertaken and is in addition to the London Plan.

Solution

IESVE dynamic thermal modelling can be used to simulate the internal temperature conditions, allowing you to establish whether threshold conditions discomfort will be reached.

  • TM59 prescribed profiles are available within IESVE as pre-loaded TM59 profile templates, allowing users to easily select and apply the templates and profiles before beginning simulation and result analysis
  • Dynamic blind control tool available within IESVE

BREEAM

Challenge

Achieving a high number of credits can be difficult, and the cost of additional credits to achieve your target BREEAM rating can quickly become prohibitive. A BREEAM Excellent score requires a credit score of 70% or above, and an Outstanding score requires 85% or above.

Solution

IESVE provides a wide range of analysis capability that is perfectly suited for attaining BREEAM credit compliance, helping you broaden your firms BREEAM assessment capability.

  • Combined use of IESVE and One Click LCA offers a solution to attain over 50 BREEAM credits.
  • Use of IES TaP for BREEAM provides a secure, cost effective and easy to use online project management system to streamline, manage and automate the BREEAM certification process, making it even more efficient.

BB101

 

 

Challenge

BB101 provides guidance on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools including ventilation standard for spaces, guidance on room temperatures and draughts, detailed calcuation methords and reducing sources of indoor and outdoor pollutants.

Solution

IESVE is perfectly suited to evaluate all three of these important factors.

  • Dynamic simulation software allows for natural ventilation, mixed-mode and mechanical ventilation strategies to be coupled with heat/energy exchange along with assessing indoor air quality.
  • VE routinely used by experts around the UK to desing and optimise the environmental, energy and sustainability aspects of the school’s design.
  • Daylight tools allow an enhanced analysis of climate based daylight metrics, daylight factors and CFD tool is used extensively to model draughts and air mixing.

WELL Building Standard


 

Challenge

The WELL Building Standard is a certification scheme developed by Delos and the International WELL Building Institute™ to highlight the benefits of integrating occupant health and wellbeing in the design, construction and operation of our buildings. The Standard is organised into seven main ‘concepts’; Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Fitness, Comfort and Mind. All are applicable to three general building project typologies; new & existing buildings, new & existing interiors and core & shell compliance.

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Solution

The IESVE software offers many outputs that are relevant to the seven concepts of the WELL Standard. Thermal comfort indices for ASHRAE 55, indoor air quality, mean age of air, visual comfort, daylight performance using Dynamic Daylighting and sky view are just some examples of appropriate modelling outputs for WELL credits.

UK Building Regulations

Challenge

Compliance software must be used to produce an output report showing compliance has been achieved for UK Building Regulation criteria.

Solution

IESVE provides 3D compliance solutions for all of UK & Ireland.

  • Our free SBEM engine provides a front-end interface provides a 3D graphical route to non-dwelling UK compliance for Part England, Part L Wales, Scotland Section 6 & 63 and Part F Northern Ireland in addition to EPCs for all regions.
  • Our Dynamic Simulation tool approved by CLG, SBS and DFPNI can be used to meet complex non-domestic compliance for Part L England, Part L Wales, Scotland Section 6 & 63 and Part F Northern Ireland, in addition to EPCs for all regions.
  • The iSAP tool developed in conjuction with JPA|TL links the SAP design tool with the VE's 3D graphics user interface
  • Our patented VE-Navigator technology provides you with a robust and detailed step-by-step structured workflow for Part L2 compliance and EPC generation.

LEED

 

 

Challenge

Projects pursuing LEED certification earn points across several categories, including energy use and air quality. LEED buildings save energy, water, resources, generate less waste and support human health.

Solution

As LEED Automation Partners, IES has developed a range of LEED analysis software applications to significantly help streamline and assist the LEED certification process .

  • The IESVE software provides a wide range of analysis capability that is perfectly suited for attaining LEED credit compliance, helping you broaden your firms LEED assessment capability. With the IESVE you can achieve credits across Location & Transport, Sustainable Sites and Energy & Atmosphere.
  • In addition to IESVE, our partnership with One Click LCA offers a solution to attain credits for Life Cycle Assessment.
  • IES TaP for LEED provides a secure online collaborative portal to enhance management of the LEED workflow.

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Lancaster University

IES Client: Design Team

Lifecycle assessment undertaken, 2 exemplar credits within MAT-01, BREEAM outstanding certification.

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NHS Scotland

IES Client: Building Owners

NHS new building overheating analysis, performance gap, project mentoring, operational templates, benchmarking.

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Sainsbury's

IES Client: Project Contractor

Daylight dimming analysis, maximise daylighting utilisation. Daylighting vs Artificial Lifecycle Optimisation. 

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