Utilising In-Use Data to Reduce Costs, Decarbonise, Verify Build Quality and Ensure Healthy Buildings

我们的项目旨在开发Atamate产品和服务，以建立一个数据驱动的方法，以减少现有住宅建筑的能源需求和碳排放。建筑能耗和碳排放取决于建筑的结构性能——绝缘和气密性水平、安装的机械和电气系统，最重要的是建筑的占用或使用。我们建议与房屋协会合作，监测一些试验建筑物，每座建筑物都有不同的结构、服务和占用组合，以提供一个数据集来监测、评估和改善使用表现。我们认为，在升级现有建筑的过程中，有三个核心挑战，我们希望将其作为该项目的一部分来解决：为机械和/或织物升级制定适当的干预策略。成功的标准将基于：1。提供一条通往零碳的道路——这意味着从物业中去除天然气（或石油）。2. 将租户的账单维持在或理想情况下低于当前水平。最优资本成本干预。Atamate作为一个监测和控制平台，试验不同的织物和机械干预。确认工作已按适当的标准完成。翻新工作很困难，而且常常是隐蔽的。给窗户涂胶或给屋顶隔热)。因此，验证承包商是否正确地完成了工作是至关重要的。我们相信从atBOS收集的数据可以用于此目的。确保建筑物对居住者健康。atBOS技术将实时监测空气质量、气候、占用率、能源和水的使用情况。我们的项目建议使用我们现有的技术平台atBOS来控制和监控房屋协会的属性，以收集数据来研究和开发工具来应对这些挑战。然后，这些工具将允许扩大解决方案的规模。由于每座建筑都是不同的，因此有一种方法可以灵活地适应建筑、机械系统和建筑居住者的不同组合是至关重要的。我们相信，综合控制建筑的方法可以提供这种灵活性，同时提供一个平台，允许其他技术和实践为同一目的而协调一致。因此，我们提供可以将脱碳项目联系在一起的粘合剂，同时还提供监控和报告实际使用性能的能力。

Our project aims to develop the Atamate products and services to establish a data driven methodology to reduce energy demand and carbon emissions in existing domestic buildings.Building energy consumption and therefore carbon emissions are dictated by the fabric performance of the building - levels of insulation and airtightness, the installed mechanical and electrical systems, and most importantly the occupancy or use of the building. We propose to partner with a Housing Association to monitor a number of trial buildings, each with a different combination of fabric, services and occupancy, to provide a dataset to monitor, assess and improve in use performance.We believe that there are 3 core challenges in upgrading existing buildings that we would look to address as part of this project:1. Developing appropriate strategy for intervention of mechanical and/or fabric upgrades. Success criteria will be based on: 1. Providing a route to zero carbon - which means removing gas (or oil) from a property. 2. Maintain tenants' bills at or ideally below current levels 3. Optimal capital cost intervention. Atamate acts as a monitoring and control platform to trial different fabric and mechanical interventions.2. Verification that the work is completed to an appropriate standard. Refurbishment work is difficult and often hidden (eg. mastic a window or insulating a roof). Consequently verifying the contractor has completed the work correctly is critical. We believe that data collected from atBOS can be used for this purpose.3. Ensuring the building is healthy for occupants. atBOS technology will monitor air quality, climate, occupancy and energy and water use in real time.Our project proposes to use our existing technology platform, atBOS, to control and monitor house associations properties to gather data to research and develop tools to address these challenges. These tools will then allow solutions to be scaled up.As every building is different, having an approach which can flex to different combinations of architecture, mechanical systems and building occupants is crucial. We believe that an integrated approach to controlling buildings can provide this flexibility whilst providing a platform that allows other technologies and practices to align for the same purpose. We therefore offer the glue that can tie decarbonisation projects together, whilst also providing the capability to monitor and report actual performance in use.