Question: What are AI capabilities to identify thermal loss and improve the energy efficiency of buildings?
Answer: In the not too distant future, a specialised AI-based platform will provide energy audits for building owners.
Stephen: We’re currently working with a company developing a comprehensive energy auditing system using our external thermal imaging combined with the internal thermal assessment and thermal monitoring to create a comprehensive energy auditing platform. In the not too distant future, there will be a specialised AI based platform that can provide energy audits for building owners. It’s designed primarily for the industrial and commercial space, but it will have applicability in high-rise residential, especially where the building has an integral HVAC system. It’s not that far away.
Edwina: We will see much more in this space, with environmental and social governance becoming a big part of the industry. The technology is moving that way. The government is advocating for change and for buildings to become carbon-neutral. It’s only natural that the technology will evolve in this direction.
This post appears in the December 2023 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
Edwina Feilen
Sedgwick
E: edwina.feilen@au.sedgwick.com
Stephen Thornton
Voltin
E: Steve@voltin.com.au
Reading the article regarding mechanical ventilation is there a recommended air intake level per hour for apartment buildings and common hallways. Ours has been switched off to due to complaints about noise from one resident. I noted in the previous article that the strata Committee could be in breach if switched off.
Re the carpark ventilation… I know that things can vary from one state to the next, but am aware of a complex on the Sunshine Coast in QLD which changed things over the years concerning the ventilation of their carparks, eg closed them in, changed to manually operated fans, installed doors in the passageways between one carpark and the next, etc. All well intentioned, but without reference to any regulatory authority. An owner complained to the local council, and the scheme got hit with a Show Cause Notice late-2020 and told to get it certified or face prosecution. Still hadn’t fixed it 7 months later, so was issued with another Show Cause Notice. I suspect there will be no second chances this time.
I don’t think councils go out looking for breaches like this, but will respond if they receive a complaint. Even if you have a committee that is not prepared to do the right thing, there are other ways to ‘skin the skunk’.
please quote a budget price for a co monitor control system for 3 storey car-park in a residential buildings. each storey has 35 cark parks
Hi Robert
Green Strata has a great Case Study of a building installing a co monitor control system. The case study lists pricing and procedures. I hope this assists and all the best with the project:
Car Park Co Monitoring System: Mondrian