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Ocean Park
Building once was known as the first prize winner in the competition “Energy
efficiency Building” organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and having
received a Merit from Ha Noi people’s committee in acknowledgment of its
achievements in energy efficiency activities in 2009. More recently, in the
competition ASEAN Efficient Energy Management 2010,
Mr. Vu
Sinh, a member of Project Office of HPM Company – managing unit of the
Bold
investment
Playing the
particular role of a commercial center and office blocks,
Energy
saving activities has been a concern among members of board of directors of
Aware of the fact that the air conditioning system is always the most electricity-consuming part of the building, managers of the building decided that the first solution to save energy should be installing the BMS controlling system to control the amount of energy consumption of the air conditioning.
With this
solution, the building can save about 152,000 Kwh per year. However installing
such a system is not a common solution for most businesses since the initial
investment can be as much as VND700 million.
In
addition, Ocean Park has recently used insulation film for the building’s glass
windows in order to reduce the amount of heat absorbed, performed a periodic
maintenance for its air conditioning system and installed an automatic
adjustment program to adjust operating hours and temperature appropriately
according to seasons, weeks and days. With those solutions, the amount of
electricity saved is over 328,000 kWh per year.
With the
lighting system,
Because
In addition
to those solutions which have high investment costs, many simple, low-cost
technical solutions are also used, for example installing an automatic system
to control all electronic equipment during peak hours, adjusting the operating
modes of elevator to suit particular working conditions or using an automatic
time and temperature adjusting system for the local air conditioning system.
These have proved to be no less effective than those costly methods.
Focusing
on energy management
Besides the above technical solutions, the Board of Directors also attaches
great importance to effective energy management within the Company. To achieve
this goal, the managing unit of the building applies its own method in order to
improve energy efficiency by establishing a Department for Energy Management,
in which the building’s director is also the general manager of all energy
issues. The manager is then responsible for deciding, approving and
implementing energy efficiency schemes to apply to the building’s equipments.
“The purpose of our energy management
activities in the building is first to reduce energy expenditures and thus to
increase our operation profits. During the period of 2006 – 2009, |
The
Department for Energy Management includes chief engineers, who have the
responsibility for holding meetings and preparing a periodic report on energy
consumption situation of the building for every weekly briefing session, updating
and reporting regularly on energy efficiency activities as well as planning and
defining new saving targets for the following period. In addition, various
seminars and training workshops on using energy efficiently are regularly
organized.
Along with manual
energy management,
The amount
of energy consumed by every customer is monitored by an assistant electricity
meter. The repair and installation of electrical supply route for new customers
is performed both securely and conveniently, to ensure that no other customer
is affected. Customers of
In order to
thoroughly apply the energy efficiency solutions proposed by controlling
department, a range of detailed operating procedures for equipment using energy
in the building and working procedures for each department as well as each
worker, have been built so as to improve every one’s awareness of energy
efficiency.
Managers of
Hopefully,
from the successful managing model of energy efficiency used in
By Nguyen An