Creating a sustainable and resilient built environment

1. 

   One building

   What a guest sees

   A resort hotel by the sea: rooms, a pool court, a lobby. What keeps it cool, lit, supplied and safe runs out of sight.

2. Building services design

   Everything inside it, designed together

   Air conditioning, power, water, fire and low-voltage systems, designed together from concept to commissioning.

   Building services design
3. • Fresh-air units
   • Cooling towers
   • Fan-coil unit in every room
   • Chiller plant

   Air

   Cool, fresh air in every room

   Cooling, ventilation and fresh air, sized from simulations of heat and airflow rather than from rules of thumb.

4. • Overhead tanks
   • Sewage treatment
   • Risers to every floor
   • Water tanks, below ground
   • Rainwater harvesting

   Water

   Every drop planned

   Supply, drainage and rainwater harvesting, planned so the building draws less water from the municipal supply.

5. • Solar on the roof
   • Busduct risers
   • Solar over the arrival
   • Transformers
   • Diesel generators

   Power

   Power for the load it really draws

   Supply, backup, lighting and solar, designed around the load the building really draws.

6. • Sprinklers on every floor
   • Hydrant risers
   • Hydrant ring main
   • Fire pumps and tank

   Fire safety

   Safe on every floor

   Detection, sprinklers and smoke control, engineered to the National Building Code of India.

7. • Data risers
   • Wi-Fi in the lobby
   • Access control
   • Server and BMS room
   • Cameras round the site

   Low voltage

   The network behind every door

   Voice and data, security systems and building management, so the hotel is connected, watched over and run from one place.

8. • Sun path, June
   • Sun path, December
   • Most sun: roofs and the afternoon façades
   • Sunset, west
   • Sunrise, east
   • Sea breeze

   Sustainability – Centre of Excellence

   Tested in sun and wind first

   Climate, sun and wind studies come first, while the orientation, massing and façade of the building can still change.

   Sustainability – Centre of Excellence
9. • Cable and data trays
   • Clash solved: duct dropped under the beams
   • Bathroom and soil stack
   • Fresh-air duct
   • Sprinkler main
   • Fan-coil unit

   BIM and coordination

   Clashes solved on screen

   Building services modelled with the architecture and structure in BIM, so clashes are solved on screen rather than on site.

   BIM and coordination
10. Existing buildings

    And for the life of the building

    Audits and commissioning that find where energy, water and comfort are lost, and how to recover them.

    Existing buildingsStart a project

Illustrative building, not an AEON project; its systems are a plausible scheme, not a design.