Energy Efficiency
3 office buildings and Hotel Park Inn
I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT
Customer profile:
The Red Group company commenced the construction of the administrative and hotel centre known as The Orchard in 2007. This centre has created a new dynamical environment for both work and leisure time in the heart of Ostrava. The investor has placed emphasis on ecology since the very beginning, and the environmentally clean location has been completed with an energy-efficient design of Schneider Electric products guaranteeing low operation costs.
Customer objective and constraints:
Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic. With more than three hundred thousand inhabitants it offers flexible, highly skilled labour and states very acceptable wage costs in the Czech Republic. It furthermore benefits from the support provided by the EU.
CzechInvest, the governmental agency aimed at support of direct foreign investments, has enrolled Ostrava on the list of locations with a maximum support in the form of tax relieves, and various grants in the field of employment and education. This may be also one of the reasons for which such tenants as HSBC (one of the largest banks in the world) and TietoEnator (one of leading providers of IT services in Europe) have already moved into this modern building.
II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION
Implementation methodology (main phases):
The modern office and hotel facility in the Hornopolní street is currently in construction and after the total completion it will consist of three seven-storey office buildings with a lease area of 36,000 m2 and of the hotel building with 186 rooms which is to be completed in 2007. The first administrative building with 12,000 m2 of offices has begun its operation in October 2007. Orchard is the first Ostrava project which can provide its tenants with full comfort and connect business with services for leisure time, and thus it is able to overcome the usual concepts of office premises of the A class. The offices are of the highest standard, including doubled floors, the state-of-the-art telecommunication connection, soffits with integrated illumination and air conditioning systems. The facility includes also sufficient parking capacities and storage areas for tenants.
Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):
 | Schneider Electric has supplied here a complete solution to almost all its systems, from low-voltage and high-voltage switchboards, bus-bar system and the HVAC TAC Vista system, CCTV Pelco, access control and security I/NET Seven system, electricity parameter and consumption measurement systems to APC UPS backup sources. Whole BMS system TAC Vista is operating on LonWorks technology. Thanks to the mutual interconnection of Schneider Electric open Lon technologies, the entire system of the buildings features a high performance in terms of energy savings and complies with the A class requirements. |
III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT
Customer benefits:
Integrated solution with HVAC, Security, energy monitoring & control, medium & low woltage
- Integrated solution with one BMS system TAC VIsta
- Building complies energy saving class A requirements
- Open architecture with easy 3rd products integration
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