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Buildings have a significant impact on the environment, consuming 32% of the world's resources, including 12% of its water and up to 40% of its energy. Buildings also produce 40% of waste going to landfill and 40% of air emissions.

Background

Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating system. It evaluates the environmental design, performance and construction of buildings based on a number of criteria, including energy, water efficiency, indoor environment quality and resource conservation. With 11 per cent of Australia's CBD commercial office buildings Green Star certified, building green is now a business imperative.

The property industry is well placed to deliver significant long-term environmental improvements using a broad range of measures. Although a strong business case can be made for their implementation, there are barriers within the property industry that often prevent efficiency measures from being adopted.

Green star accreditation scheme was created to in order to address some of these barriers. Its objective is to promote sustainable development and the transition of the property industry by promoting green building programs, technologies, design practices and operations.

Superior Business Returns

From a feasibility standpoint there are many attractive business incentives for choosing to incorporate green star for your next project including

• Lower operating costs
  • Some buildings reported energy savings of over 70% after two years of operation!

• Greater tenant attraction
• Enhanced marketability
• Productivity benefits
• Reduced liability and risk
• A healthier place to live and work
• Demonstration of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Future proofed assets
• Competitive advantage
  • By building green, you can differentiate your project in an increasingly crowded marketplace

Services

We utilise our proven building services industry experience and practical approach to provide customer satisfaction at very competitive pricing and to great detail guaranteed

PSE Green Solutions professional green star accreditation and extensive building services engineering background means ESD solutions will be smoothly integrated into design development documentation with meaningful results and capital cost considerations.

PSE adopts a practical policy of ESD implementation by ensuring a seamless transition of design/development submissions to as built submissions. This administration of successful integration will ensure construction is transparent with initial ESD design intent.

PSE Green Solutions is able to produce relevant and practical outcomes for our clients by undertaking thorough and accurate investigations in the following facets of ESD Solutions.

• Management
• Indoor Environment Quality
• Energy
• Transport
• Water
• Materials
• Land Use and Ecology
• Emissions

Implementation

We will also ensure the above categories are implemented well after handover through the use of

• Commissioning Clauses
• Building tuning liabilities
• Building User Guides
• Environment Management Schemes

Extensive Engineering Resources

PSE Green Solutions has extensive engineering resources including.

• Energy Rating Software
• Engineering Software
• Green star PILOT calculation software for building design facets such as
  • Indoor Environment Quality Control
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Site Mass Transport Green star Compliances
  • Potable Water Consumption
  • Emissions Calculators

VALUE ENGINEERING

Definition

Value engineering (VE) is a systematic method to improve the "value" of goods or products and services by examining its final outcome to intended functional scopes. Often, this improvement is focused on cost reduction; however other important areas such as customer perceived quality and performance are also of paramount importance in the value equation.

Value Engineering

Design means & methods, emerging technologies and material costs are examples of variables that directly affect project construction costs.  Fluctuations in these variables can occur frequently, sometimes randomly, thus requiring our consultancy to stay ahead and on top of relevant industry updates.  Maintaining an edge on that information, coupled with our extensive experience in a wide variety of electrical systems, allows us to properly balance the effects of function and cost on overall value. These analyses are presented to our clients in comprehensive reports as cost saving options and subsequent design  

Value Engineering can achieve impressive savings, much greater than what is possible through conventional cost reduction exercise, even when cost reduction is the objective of the task.

PSE value solution engineering services consist of a systematic, top-down review of all design elements with the objective of identifying cost effective product/infrastructure substitution solutions. The ultimate end is to provide our clients with innovative cost savings that need not compromise design intent, performance, quality or long term maintenance. When implemented at the planning and design stages, these results are significantly enhanced as demonstrated 

4 Reasons to perform a value engineering study

Your project is over budget or behind schedule

You want to uncover hidden redundancy and inefficiency built into your project

Your project is not meeting expectations

You just know there is a better way

Approach methodology

Value methodology (VM) is a systematic and structured approach for improving projects. VM is used in purpose to analyse and improve design and construct projects. VM assists in achieving an optimum balance between function, performance, quality, safety, and cost. The proper balance results in the maximum value for the project. Value is the reliable performance of functions to meet customer needs at the lowest overall cost and it can be calculated like this:

Value = Function/Cost

Function is what the product or service is supposed to do.

Cost is the expenditure needed to create it.

The VM follows a standard job plan, which consists of six phases:

1. Information: Gather information to better understand the project.
2. Function Analysis: Analyze the project to understand and clarify the required functions.
3. Creative: Generate ideas on all the possible ways to accomplish the required functions.
4. Evaluation: Synthesize ideas and concepts and select those that are feasible for development into specific value improvements.
5. Development: Select and prepare the ‘best’ alternative(s) for improving value.
6. Presentation: Present the value recommendation to the project stakeholders.

The best results are achieved by engineers with experience and expertise relevant to the project being studied, applying relevant knowledge to maximise process administered by VM principle

Conclusion

Effective value engineering in the construction industry requires the right mix of experience, initiative, creativity and logical thinking. Seeing holes in processes and connecting tasks together to flow in a streamlined manner is complex work.

In the final analysis, Value Engineering is not only beneficial, but essential because:

1. The functionality of the project is often improved, as well as producing remarkable savings, both initial and Life-Cycle Cost.
2. A "second look" at the design produced by the architect and engineers gives the assurance that all reasonable alternatives have been explored.
3. Cost estimates and scope statements are checked thoroughly assuring that nothing has been omitted or underestimated.
4. Assures that the best value will be obtained over the life of the building

We have successfully delivered projects across multiple sectors including residential, hospitality, commercial, retail, industrial and educational.

Click below to see a selection of case studies or the following link for a full updated list of feature projects

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Electrical Services

General power reticulation and distribution

Lighting and power layouts

High and low voltage reticulation systems

Exit and emergency lighting

Structured voice and data networks

General communications and block cabling facilities design

Uninterruptable power supplies and line conditioning equipment

Switchboard schematics and metering design

Public address and MATV systems

Security, CCTV, intruder alarm, intercom and access control systems

Emergency warning and intercommunication systems

Lightning and surge protection

Generation and cogeneration systems and control

Indoor and outdoor specialty lighting

Exterior, car park and pedestrian lighting

Supply authority feeds and substation design

URD Services

Electricity and telecommunications supply certificates

Rate 2 and 3 road, street and arterial lighting design

City council approvals for road lighting and reticulation designs

Privately owned distribution and road lighting schemes in fully gated estate

Energex and Ergon approved designs

Tender distribution and construction administration

Telstra and NBN design applications and pre provisioning

Fire Services

Automatic smoke and thermal detection

Early detection and warning systems

Occupant warning and emergency evacuation