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A detailed energy policy has to be developed and implemented,
which can be used as an active management document on all
construction sites.
This should include:
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Appointing Energy Managers
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Training in energy management and energy technologies
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Setting contract conditions for subcontractors which appoints a
limit of energy consumption and a charge for excess energy demand
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Bonus
scheme for good practice of energy use for employees and contractors
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A full monitoring and targeting system is essential to
understand and, hence, control energy consumption of a construction
village. Therefore, it is important to keep accurate and
comprehensive records of fuel/electricity use.
To successfully introduce a monitoring and targeting system
the use of an electricity sub-metering system is required for
construction villages.
Further work can be invested in developing wireless internet
monitoring of the built environment.
Once monitoring systems are in place it will be possible to
set energy consumption targets for construction villages.
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In order to facilitate the successful use of monitoring and
targeting systems on construction sites benchmarks for performance
based on a standard village layout with allowances for different
numbers and types of cabins need to be established.
Such energy performance indicators can:
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be
used to describe how well a construction village is achieving energy
efficiency
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help
to keep staff aware of the need for energy efficiency
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demonstrate to the public and clients that the company is committed
to minimising the environmental impacts of its operation
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There
is scope for designing an energy efficiency rating scheme for
temporary accommodation based on existing Building Standard
guidelines.
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Currently
used materials for manufacturing of transportable cabin
accommodation could be replaced by sustainable materials with lower
environmental impact (use of low energy content materials, use of
recyclable materials).
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There
is scope for an innovative new design of current cabin
accommodation. The traditional concept of ‘portacabins’ could be
replaced with a design that allows units to be interconnected
effortlessly with all utilities built into the building fabrics.
This way repeated trade visits to retrofit and connect/reconnect IT
and energy services can be avoided.
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Ways
to reduce the water usage of construction villages should be
researched.
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There
is scope to further research into recovering the heat from the hot
and humid air in the drying room to other offices for heating. The
air need to be dehumidified and filtered off odour from the drying
room.
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