As part of the "Redesign of Health Care Administrations" process, one of the objectives is to create better cooperation between administrations. In order to improve cooperation, the Federal Public Service for Public Health, Safety of the Food Chain and the Environment (FPS), the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) and the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP), in short the Health Administrations, are moving together to one new location, the Galilée Building in Etterbeek.
Owned by Belfius and built in 1969, the Galilée Building underwent a thorough renovation in 2001. Before the move of the Health Care Administrations, the Galilée building was given a thorough refresh. This thorough refresh of the building provided the momentum for a study of the building's potential in terms of techniques and facility management. Thus arose the desire to make the new working environment of the Healthcare organizations smart. The building thus follows in the symbolic footsteps of its smart namesake, polymath Galileo Galilei.
Under the vision, "Smart Buildings is a train of thought and not a product," the Health Care Administrations had defined four focus domains: techniques, sustainability, collaboration and well-being. Ingenium was brought in together with Freestone to give concrete substance to these domains. Freestone brought expertise in the area of smart integration with facility management and formed an ideal tandem with Ingenium.
Commissioned by the European Commission DG Energy, a tool was developed by a consortium headed by Belgian research center VITO. The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) is a tool that, on the one hand, can reveal the (lack of) smart potential in a building and, on the other hand, can be a market stimulus for innovation. The basic principle of the SRI is threefold and aligns closely with the focus domains:
The SRI assigns a functionality level to services in nine domains where each service can have an impact on seven impact criteria. When all services are analyzed by domain in this way, the service domain - impact matrix is populated with results.
A more in-depth article on SRI can be found here .
Ingenium used the SRI to assess the existing condition of the building and the condition of the building after completion of project "redesign. The results showed where the building was underperforming and which areas/criteria needed attention. This information was used to work on proposing targeted improvements. The impact on criteria and SRI score was calculated for each of the proposed improvements.
Improvements were examined from different angles, which were discussed and further refined during workshops with the customer. For example, under the heading of energy efficiency and flexibility, the profitability of a CHP, recuperation of ice water, adding a flue gas condenser and electric vehicle charging systems were investigated. On the building management side, we examined the impact of demand side management (DSM), air quality monitoring and control, daylight control and performance analysis, among others. Our partner Freestone worked around applications that improve comfort and user experience such as space management, occupancy analysis, smart cleaning, smart catering, crisis communication, etc.
In order to spread investments over time, a multi-year investment plan was drawn up based on technical and financial input. A plan was thus obtained to transform the Galilée building in several steps into the smart work environment that meets the client's needs.
More information around this project can be obtained from ir. Jasper Meynen and/or ir. Wim Boone
050 40 45 30 - jasper.meynen@ingenium.be - wim.boone@ingenium.be
