©Jan de Nul | Project Owner: Neo-Legia | Architects: SM ARTAU – ALTIPLAN – AAST – SYNTAX
Expertise
Building Service (MEP) Engineering
- Design of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for energy efficiency and rational use of energy
- Electrical design: high and low voltage power distribution, indoor and outdoor lighting, communications and data, lifts, fire safety, access control, …
- Sanitary design: water supply and disposal systems that save resources and respect the natural water cycle
- Comparative studies and technoeconomic feasibility studies of renewable energies
- Feasibility studies for heating networks
- BIM collaborative approach
Sustainable building design
- Low carbon energy design (passive, Q-ZEN, positive energy building, …) with optimization of architectural and technical choices
- Passive or low-energy cooling studies
- (Functionally) adaptive and circular design
- Analysis of the life cycle of buildings and the environmental impact of materials
- Writing and follow-up of sustainable construction site management plans
- Professional technical building training
Building environmental assessment
- BREEAM environmental certification by a “BREEAM Assessor”
- Support for BREEAM certification by a “BREEAM Accredited Professional”
- PEB Advisor
- Support to passive PHPP certification
Building Physics and Fluid Dynamics
- Study of the constructive nodes (calculation of thermal bridges and risks of condensation)
- Study of the airtightness of the envelope
- Study of the hygrothermal behaviour of walls (water vapour diffusion)
- Study of natural light
- Validation of the combination of summer thermal comfort and visual comfort in natural lighting (by dynamic computer simulation)
- Study of urban climatic comfort (wind and sunshine)
- Study of light pollution reduction
Commissioning and Building Performance Evaluation
- Technical verifications prior to the purchase of a building
- Energy audits (environmental permits, AMURE, Chèques Energie, …)
- Assistance in defining commissioning processes for environmental certifications (BREEAM, LEED)
- Commissioning of the envelope at the end of construction and of technical installations at start-up (Certified Building Commissioning Professional)
- Drafting of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) plans for the health and well-being objectives of projects
- Writing of practical guides for the sustainable use of buildings to the attention of occupants
- Monitoring of energy consumption and comfort parameters of buildings in the operating phase
Water Management
- Tips for designing water-saving equipment
- Dimensioning and design of rainwater harvesting systems and grey water recovery and treatment systems
- Study of on-site wastewater treatment
- Study of stormwater management at the scale of the site or the neighbourhood (design of the sewerage network and retention and infiltration devices)
Biodiversity
- Biodiversity survey before intervention on the site
- Computation of the ecological potential (ecopotential)
- Tips for protecting, offsetting and developing biodiversity on the site
- Definition of compensatory measures