The Royal Institution

Works comprised a full BMS and controls upgrade across the Royal Institution's Albemarle Street premises. Existing gas-fired boiler plant and air-cooled chiller were decommissioned and removed in full, with new air source heat pumps installed and commissioned as the primary heating and cooling source. All existing fan coil units were replaced with new four-pipe FCUs throughout the building, complete with new wiring centres and EC motors, connected to the existing LTHW/CHW distribution network. New local control panels were fabricated and installed to serve the heat pump plant and FCU zones, replacing all redundant legacy panels.

The existing BMS was stripped out in its entirety. A new open-protocol BACnet-native BMS was installed, comprising new field outstations, controls cabling throughout, and a fully graphical front-end server providing remote browser-based access, trend logging, alarm management and energy monitoring dashboards. All plant, FCUs and building services were integrated into the new BMS and commissioned against optimised control strategies including demand-led operation, heating and cooling changeover, setback scheduling and plant sequencing.

All works were delivered within a live, occupied Grade I listed building, with phasing agreed with the RI's facilities team to maintain comfort conditions and avoid disruption to public events throughout. Heritage constraints were observed throughout, with all penetrations and fixings agreed with the appointed heritage consultant prior to execution. Full O&M documentation, as-installed drawings, commissioning records and electrical certificates were provided on completion.