{"id":114948,"date":"2022-09-01T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=114948"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:14:21","slug":"orkney-islands-uses-digital-twin-technology-to-optimise-building-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/orkney-islands-uses-digital-twin-technology-to-optimise-building-performance\/114948\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkney Islands uses digital twin technology to optimise building performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Orkney Islands Council has implemented digital twin technology across its building portfolio to optimise operational performance, energy efficiency and air quality<\/h2>\n<p>Working in partnership with IES and Danalto, Orkney Islands Council has used digital twin technology to centralise its building data into a single platform, allowing the council to quickly identify issues and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/stakeholders\/zutec-construction-management-software-and-cde-for-the-entire-building-lifecycle\/114378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manage buildings from one location.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In doing so, this has improved efficiency and saved time when analysing and translating data into actions to improve building performance across various areas including, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/extreme-heat-in-homes-how-can-our-buildings-and-their-occupants-prepare\/113851\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occupant health and wellbeing, comfort, energy efficiency<\/a> and costs.<\/p>\n<h3>The council began setting out a process to gather data from existing Building Management Systems (BMS) across seven of its sites<\/h3>\n<p>In order to collect more data than ever before, new heat meters, oil meters and electricity meters were implemented, as well as indoor and outdoor weather sensors. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-114957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-300x142.png\" alt=\"dashboard iot data digital twin technology Orkney Islands Council\" width=\"678\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-1024x486.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-696x331.png 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-1068x507.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data-884x420.png 884w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dashboard-iot-data.png 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iesve.com\/products\/iscan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> IES\u2019s iSCAN cloud-based data analytics platfor<\/a>m, the council were able to analyse data and translate it into actionable intelligence communicated via dashboards which can be accessed anywhere via web browser. These dashboards help the council to see what is happening across the portfolio, identify and prioritise faults and see where operational improvements can be made.<\/p>\n<p>A secure connection to transfer data from IoT sensors to Danalto\u2019s web service and then into IES\u2019s iSCAN cloud-based data analytics platform was only possible through collaborative working.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Bruce, project officer (ReFLEX) at Orkney Islands Council, said: &#8220;The IES Command Centre has given us a much clearer picture of what is happening across our portfolio and we have already earmarked a further two sites to add into the system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sites are either having an upgrade or extension, so are ideal candidates for additional meters and sensors to be implemented at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, we hope to eventually include all buildings with BMS or controls in them within the interface so we can manage the whole estate from this one system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Using digital twin technology to identify efficiency improvements, deliver savings, and optimise occupant health and wellbeing<\/h3>\n<p>During the project, the council was able to identify where CO2 concentrations were higher than expected through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/why-is-indoor-air-quality-in-buildings-important\/113778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indoor Air Quality<\/a> monitoring &#8211; this informed measures to improve ventilation. The project also identified areas of overheating, representing significant opportunities to make savings across energy, cost and carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Valeria Ferrando, associate director, ICL Consultancy at IES, said: &#8220;A data-led, integrated approach eliminates typical frustrations associated with managing large building portfolios, and reliably enables savings and better efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when energy costs are at an all-time high and the race to zero emissions is gathering pace, it is great to see our digital twin technology already making a difference to large portfolio owners and local authorities, such as Orkney Islands Council, by helping them to identify efficiency improvements and deliver savings, whilst also optimising conditions for the health and wellbeing of building occupants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orkney Islands Council has implemented digital twin technology across its building portfolio to optimise operational performance, energy efficiency and air quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141293],"tags":[566,429,688,172720,430,276,803,934],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-digital-construction-news","7":"tag-air-quality","8":"tag-building-control","9":"tag-digital-construction","10":"tag-digital-twins","11":"tag-energy-efficiency","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-ventilation","14":"tag-wellbeing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orkney Islands uses digital twin technology to optimise building performance | Planning, Building &amp; 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