Generally means of the requirements set out or identified in Project Agreement in respect to the general construction requirements amended from time to time in accordance with the terms of Project Agreement. |
This Energy Conservation Measures (ECM) Whole Life Cost Tool | Developed by the Scottish Futures Trust for identifying carbon reduction opportunities in lifecycle planning and potential alterations on operational PFI, PPP, NPD, Hub and DBFM Projects. |
The term 'carbon' is used to denote the carbon dioxide equivalent of all greenhouse gas emissions. For example, in referring to the carbon emissions of a gas-fired boiler, this would be deemed to include the carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide products of combustion and methane from any unburnt fuel. |
Carbon Offsetting is the undertaking of actions to remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere as a counterbalance to a Project's residual emissions that have not been eliminated after exemplary demand reduction and decarbonised supply options have been exhausted. |
Carbon Strategy is the strategy that an Authority produces for an existing or planned new building to ensure it progresses from its current condition of emitting carbon to achieving net zero energy supplies by the NZ Deadline applicable to the project, sector and Local Authority Area. A Carbon Strategy will apply appropriate emission factors to energy used in the project, forecasting updates to them as they change overtime. For example, a Carbon Strategy will take account of plans to connect to low carbon heat and power sources that become available through LHEES and other local delivery plans relevant to a specific project. It should also take account of national and UK wide plans for decarbonisation of electricity and gas grids that could affect the project in the future. It will take account of the building's position within the context of the Authority's estate and the locality of the building and will include the temporary application of Carbon Offsetting, where appropriate. Carbon Strategies can include approaches that achieve a balance between onsite renewables, grid connections and other LZC technologies. As the range of technically and commercially viable approaches extends in the future, this may include demand response; continuous selection of onsite generation in response to variations in grid emission factors and price signals; deployment of battery storage; electric vehicle charging, combined with vehicle-to-grid supplies; smart technologies; the internet of things; and other innovative approaches and technologies intended to minimise constraints on onsite generators and reduce grid reinforcement requirements. Carbon Strategies should be regularly reviewed to ensure that they are up to date, minimise reliance upon temporary Carbon Offsetting solutions and provide value for money in the transition to net zero energy supplies. |
A Certified Measurement and Verification Professional is an accreditation from the Association of Energy Engineers and the Efficiency Valuation Organisation. It is awarded to professionals who demonstrate proficiency in Measurement and Verification and demonstrate the necessary competences to write a Measurement and Verification Plan and support in delivering its planned outputs. |
Good Industry Practice means using standards, practices, methods and procedures conforming to the Law and exercising that degree of skill and care, diligence, prudence and foresight which would reasonably and ordinarily be expected from a skilled and experienced person engaged in a similar type of undertaking under the same or similar circumstances. |
Guidance documents are presented to support public Authorities to better manage current operational assets in a way that helps to future proof investments and considers the impending requirements of the Scottish Government's route to net zero. Where a Participant intends to deviate from Guidance, or where Guidance is not clear for an Authority's specific building category or operations, it is an expectation that the Participant would demonstrate a comparable level of rigour and exemplary performance in the development of the Project's own approach. |
The date at which full occupancy and operations of a Project commences following Project construction and commissioning completion. Largely interchangeable with "Practical Completion". |
In its Key Findings Report (January 2020), the Infrastructure Commission for Scotland established Inclusive Net Zero Economy Outcomes as priorities against which infrastructure investment options should be assessed. It advises: "To achieve an inclusive net zero carbon economy, the Scottish Government should put "place" at the heart of coherent, infrastructure prioritisation and planning" and that it is essential that existing "assets are, most effectively and efficiently utilised, maintained and enhanced to net zero carbon readiness". A sample of recommendations from the Key Findings Report relevant to this Guidance is for public sector buildings, drawn from categories Place and Making the most of existing assets, includes: > a place-based approach to ensure delivery of an integrated and coherent outcome-based approach to planning spatial land use undertaken at regional, local and community level > presumption in favour of enhancing, re-purposing, or maintaining existing infrastructure over developing options for new infrastructure > new build should only be considered where Authorities have demonstrated this is the most appropriate response > presumption against like-for-like replacement of existing assets with new single organisation assets in favour of shared facilities > support the creation of a vibrant circular economy |
Low and zero carbon technologies generate heat, power and cooling with lower emissions than conventional, fossil fuel-based generation technologies. Technologies that input energy entirely from renewable sources, such as kinetic energy from the wind, or heat from the sun are defined as zero carbon. Where a combination of fossil fuel and renewable energy sources are input into a generating technology system, it is defined as low carbon. These definitions exclude embodied carbon. Two examples of zero carbon electricity generating technologies are wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) panels. Heat pumps supplied with electricity from the grid to generate heat are low carbon heat generating technologies. |
This Guidance applies to major refurbishment, i.e. which goes beyond cosmetic renovations (such as painting and decorating). It is intended to apply to lifecycle replacement of significant elements of a building or its services and to remodelling work and alterations intended to modernise or improve a building. |
Measurement and Verification (M&V) is the process of quantifying and analysing Operational Energy use in a transparent and fair manner. Various protocols for good practice in Measurement and Verification exist, including the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which defines common terminology and the key steps in implementing a robust M&V process. A key part of the M&V process is the development of an 'M&V Plan', which defines how energy performance analysis will be conducted and the Remediation Actions that may be required where failure to meet set targets is identified. |
A detailed M&V Verification Plan which is developed specific to Objective 3 Operational Energy, in line with the requirements of the IPMVP and approved by a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP). The M&V Plan is a part of the Objective 3 Verification Plan, and is only required to be enacted on the failure of the Project's first year's energy performance exceeding the OET. |
Where the driving force for the supply of fresh air and/or extract of stale air is provided by a fan. |
Where the driving force for the supply of fresh air and extract of stale air is buoyancy or wind. |
NZ is the achievement of a balance of zero greenhouse gas emissions by exemplary demand reduction and sourcing decarbonised supplies, followed by taking actions to remove the same quantity of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere as all of the activities under consideration generate. For example, an energy efficient house that meets all its energy needs when the sun is shining, exporting surplus generation to the grid, would be able to claim that it had NZ operational energy carbon impacts if the exported electricity was greater or equal to its consumption of grid electricity when the sun is not shining. Alternative routes to NZ in this scenario would include Carbon Offsetting. |
The date by which a Project will achieve Net Zero Operational Energy emissions, as determined in line with National, Local Authority Area or Organisational policy requirements, and incorporated into the Project's Carbon Strategy. |
Operational energy is the total energy supplied to the building by grid supplies, onsite generators, private wire, district heating and other sources for all onsite energy uses, including both regulated and unregulated loads and Separable Uses. |
The point at which a Project initiates operations following successful construction and commissioning of the Project. Largely interchangeable with "Handover". |
A new or Major Refurbishment building project as developed by a Authority using this Guidance. |
The Project Agreement means the agreement between the procuring public body and the Implementing project company or special purpose vehicle relating to the implementation of all or part of the project facility(s), as such agreement may be amended from time to time. "Project Agreement", and all appendices, schedules and agreements supplemental to the Project Agreement |
PFI is a procurement method where the private sector finances, builds and operates infrastructure and provides long term services and facilities management through long term contractual arrangements (sometimes referred to as concession agreements). |
Public-private partnerships involve collaboration between a government agency and a private-sector company that can be used to finance, build, and operate projects, such as hospitals, schools and offices and typically includes long term services and facilities management through long term contractual arrangements (sometimes referred to as concession agreements). |
Separable Uses of energy are significant process or equipment loads beyond that which would be expected to occur in the building. |
Heating, hot water and cooling are thermal energy needs in buildings. The process of proving objective target outcomes to prove compliance with the Standard. |
The plan developed by an Authority and its Project Team, finalised at the Detailed Design Stage, to set the activities and reporting required to prove compliance of the individual Objective targets. For Objective 3, the Verification Plan includes the requirement for a more formal Measurement and Verification Plan, as approved by a Chartered Measurement and Verification Professional. |
Compounds (a chemical that combines two or more elements) containing carbon that changes easily into a gas and that can be harmful to people's health and/or to the environment. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors than outdoors due to their release from certain solids or liquids within a building. |
Under the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard, Whole Life Carbon relates to the embodied carbon of non-energy operational impacts, such as water supplies, waste disposal and maintenance activities and products for the life of the building. |