Master Plan Electricity ASP
Ingenium has been providing technical support to the European Parliament since 2010, with highly varied studies and assignments for several buildings totaling 500,000 m². Within one of these assignments, Ingenium made the study for a renewed energy distribution of the Altiero Spinelli building. This concerns the largest building of the European Parliament and has an area of about 300,000 m².
Client
European Parliament
Location
Brussels
Budget techniques
approx. 7,500,000.00 € excluding VAT
Surface
500 000 m²
Period Implementation
2010 - present
Master Plan Electricity ASP
The European Parliament buildings in Brussels are located in the European quarter on the east side of Brussels. The Parliament in the Leopold Quarter consists of a cluster of buildings, including the Paul-Henri Spaak and Altiero Spinelli buildings. The latter building is the largest of the block. Its construction began in 1991 and ended in 1997. The Altiero Spinelli building consists of 5 towers with 18 floors each.
Ingenium has been providing technical support to the European Parliament since 2010, with highly varied studies and assignments for several buildings totaling 500,000 m². Within one of these assignments, Ingenium analyzes the capacity and reliability of the electrical distribution of the Altiero Spinelli building. The analysis focuses on the 4 high-voltage substations, the 4 emergency power generators and the 5 central no-break systems and on the associated low-voltage distribution networks. This project compares the as-built situation of the electrical components of the distribution system with the electrical current measurements obtained from the central building management system. These data are used in number of state-of-the-art methods to determine the reliability and carrying capacity of the system in view of the planned changes and expansions of the electrical network (consumption and production). A digital twin of the entire low-voltage infrastructure was also created using cable calculation software Caneco BT. The design of the conversion of the high-voltage plant, emergency power supply and no-break system is conceived so that the building can remain in service during the works. The switchover plan prepared in design is used during execution to keep disruption to a strict minimum. This switchover plan reduces the number of interruptions by parallelizing transformers and deploying the emergency power generators already in place. The project includes replacing all four high-voltage substations, replacing and adding 23 1MW transformers, adding two 1.1MVA emergency power generators, replacing all ALSBs Emergency, retrofitting ALSBs Normal, and replacing and expanding all static no-break systems (approximately 0.6 MVA/120kWh). The design estimate for the entire conversion is approximately €7,500,000.00.
Master Plan Electricity ASP
Ingenium has been providing technical support to the European Parliament since 2010, with highly varied studies and assignments for several buildings totaling 500,000 m². Within one of these assignments, Ingenium made the study for a renewed energy distribution of the Altiero Spinelli building. This concerns the largest building of the European Parliament and has an area of about 300,000 m².
Client
European Parliament
Location
Brussels
Budget techniques
approx. 7,500,000.00 € excluding VAT
Surface
500 000 m²
Period Implementation
2010 - present
Master Plan Electricity ASP
The European Parliament buildings in Brussels are located in the European quarter on the east side of Brussels. The Parliament in the Leopold Quarter consists of a cluster of buildings, including the Paul-Henri Spaak and Altiero Spinelli buildings. The latter building is the largest of the block. Its construction began in 1991 and ended in 1997. The Altiero Spinelli building consists of 5 towers with 18 floors each.
Ingenium has been providing technical support to the European Parliament since 2010, with highly varied studies and assignments for several buildings totaling 500,000 m². Within one of these assignments, Ingenium analyzes the capacity and reliability of the electrical distribution of the Altiero Spinelli building. The analysis focuses on the 4 high-voltage substations, the 4 emergency power generators and the 5 central no-break systems and on the associated low-voltage distribution networks. This project compares the as-built situation of the electrical components of the distribution system with the electrical current measurements obtained from the central building management system. These data are used in number of state-of-the-art methods to determine the reliability and carrying capacity of the system in view of the planned changes and expansions of the electrical network (consumption and production). A digital twin of the entire low-voltage infrastructure was also created using cable calculation software Caneco BT. The design of the conversion of the high-voltage plant, emergency power supply and no-break system is conceived so that the building can remain in service during the works. The switchover plan prepared in design is used during execution to keep disruption to a strict minimum. This switchover plan reduces the number of interruptions by parallelizing transformers and deploying the emergency power generators already in place. The project includes replacing all four high-voltage substations, replacing and adding 23 1MW transformers, adding two 1.1MVA emergency power generators, replacing all ALSBs Emergency, retrofitting ALSBs Normal, and replacing and expanding all static no-break systems (approximately 0.6 MVA/120kWh). The design estimate for the entire conversion is approximately €7,500,000.00.
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