Future-proofing facilities management (Future FM )

非住宅建筑约占英国碳排放量的18%和最终能源消耗的13%。与住宅建筑物相比，住宅建筑物可以通过几个代表性的原型来很好地表征，非住宅部门高度多样化，包括一系列建筑形式，以满足商业，零售，公共服务和其他最终用途部门的需求。这些资产的使用寿命也非常长，据估计，到2050年，英国现有的非住宅建筑中有70%仍将在使用。因此，一个主要的挑战是设计技术和运营策略，支持现有的非住宅建筑改造成符合英国能源和气候政策目标的高效建筑。设施管理人员必须平衡人员（the occupants），place（建筑的背景）和过程（已安装的设备），以便向住户提供商定水平的建筑服务，其中能源服务尤为重要。然而，经验表明，居住者行为的多变性和能源服务需求的长期变化对维持高效的建筑能源系统造成了重大挑战。此外，不能想当然地认为未来的创新将克服这些障碍。新的技术和商业模式--如智能电表、热泵、相变材料、实时定价、无处不在的传感等--将带来关于建筑物及其居住者的隐含假设，设施管理人员将再次需要确定如何以集成方式有效地安装和运营它们。因此，尽管未来在提高非住宅建筑物的能源效率方面具有巨大的技术潜力，但经验表明，这些创新都不会消除对非住宅建筑物能源管理进行根本改进的必要性，而且确实提供了更多的优化机会。因此，拟议的三年研究项目将开发和展示新的自适应方法，以提高现有建筑的能源性能，并确保在技术和社会变革面前保持这些成果。这将通过与代表教育，商业和零售部门的合作伙伴合作来实现，从而对其建筑物的能源管理产生直接影响，并使开发的技术能够足够灵活地广泛用于其他非住宅建筑。因此，该研究将帮助英国改造其建筑存量，以满足一系列能源和气候政策目标，同时使设施管理行业能够为国内和国际市场展示新产品和服务。

Non-domestic buildings account for approximately 18% of UK carbon emissions and 13% of final energy consumption. In contrast to domestic buildings, which can be well characterised by a few representative archetypes, the non-domestic sector is highly diverse incorporating a range of built forms to satisfy the needs of commercial, retail, public service, and other end-use sectors. These assets are also very long-lasting and it is estimated that 70% of the UK's current non-domestic buildings will still be in service in 2050. Consequently a major challenge is to design technologies and operating strategies that support a transformation of existing non-domestic buildings into efficient buildings compatible with the UK's energy and climate policy goals.Facilities managers must balance people (the occupants), place (the building's context), and processes (the installed equipment) in order to deliver agreed levels of building services to occupants, of which energy services are particularly important. However, experience has shown that the variability of occupant behaviour and long-term changes in the demand for energy services creates significant challenges for maintaining highly efficient building energy systems. Furthermore it cannot be taken for granted that future innovations will overcome these barriers. New technologies and business models - such as smart meters, heat pumps, phase change materials, real-time pricing, pervasive sensing, and more - will bring with them implicit assumptions about buildings and their occupants and facilities managers will again need to determine how they can be installed and operated effectively, in an integrated fashion. Therefore, although the future holds significant technical potential for improving the energy efficiency of non-domestic buildings, experience suggests that none of these innovations will remove the need for fundamental improvements in the energy management of non-domestic buildings, and indeed provide more opportunities for optimisation. The proposed three-year research project will therefore develop and demonstrate novel adaptive methods both to improve the energy performance of existing buildings and to ensure that these gains are preserved in the face of technological and societal change. This will be achieved by working with partners representing the education, commercial, and retail sectors, thus delivering immediate impact to the energy management of their buildings and also enabling the developed techniques to be sufficiently flexible for widespread use in other non-domestic buildings. The research will therefore help the UK transform its building stock to meet a range of energy and climate policy goals, while enabling the facilities management industry to demonstrate new products and services for domestic and international markets.