Critical Environment Management as a Service

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A Critical Environment encompasses physical spaces and services integral to the safety and operational necessities of a facility. Typically, this includes vital infrastructures like Airports, Hyperscale Data Centers, Mobile Communication Switching Centers, and Pharmaceutical units. Managing such environments demands a deep comprehension of potential system failures’ impact on these facilities.

Key Elements of Critical Environment Management Services

  1. Critical Asset Assessment: Evaluating asset criticality.
  2. Building System Reliability: Assessing and ensuring a reliable system supporting Critical Assets.
  3. System Maintainability: Assessing and ensuring availability and maintainability of the building systems and sub-systems.
  4. Asset Maintenance: Reliability-centred maintenance for consistent reliable service delivery.

Engagement Approaches with Stakeholders

Service partners engage with Property Owners and stakeholders based on:

  1. Shared Risk & Equity Model
  2. Fixed Lump Sum Contracts
  3. Cost-Plus Contracts for Resource Supply

Risk and Emergency Management

  • Conducting risk assessments and developing mitigation plans.
  • Defining service and asset criticality.
  • Implementing proactive and predictive maintenance.
  • Documenting maintenance processes for normal, emergency, and failure situations.
  • Establishing a comprehensive emergency response program in consultation with stakeholders.

Environment Management

  • Implementing an environment-friendly maintenance strategy.
  • Tracking key performance indicators for environmental parameters.
  • Baselining, setting improvement targets, and benchmarking continual environmental enhancements.

Cost Management

  • Deploying life cycle cost modelling for infrastructure systems.
  • Considering end-of-life management for systems equipment and components.
  • Assessing cost impacts of risk mitigation, reliability enhancement, and future resource provisioning.

Effective management of a Critical Environment involves strategic planning, meticulous risk assessment, proactive maintenance, and a commitment to environmental sustainability and cost efficiency.

Typical Condition Assessment Program for Building Service Systems

BUILDING MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS CONDITION TEST
  S. No.  Building System  Condition Test  Frequency
  1ROTATING EQUIPMENT (> 10 KW), BELT DRIVES  VIBRATION ANALYSIS  ANNUAL
  2  PUMPS & FANS  ACOUSTIC EMISSION  ANNUAL
  3POWER SYSTEMS, SWITCHGEARS, TRANSFORMERS  POWER QUALITY, LOAD FLOW STUDY  ANNUAL
  4ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTIONPROTECTION SYSTEM RELAYS TESTING AND COORDINATION  ANNUAL
  5ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTIONSURGE ARRESTERS PERFORMANCE CHECKS & COORDINATION  ANNUAL
  6ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTIONPERFORMANCE CHECKS OF CIRCUIT BREAKERS (LOW & HIGH) TENSION  ANNUAL
  7  STANDBY GENERATORS  WEAR & OIL ANALYSIS  ANNUAL
  8PUMPS & FANS, ELECTRICAL SWITCHGEAR  THERMOGRAPHY  ANNUAL
  9STAIRWELL, LIFT WELL PRESSURISATION SYSTEMPERFORMANCE TEST OF BUILDING SMOKE EXTRACTION SYSTEMS  ANNUAL
  10  BUILDING ENVELOPE  WATER LEAKAGE TEST  ANNUAL
  11  BUILDING, PIPEWORKS  AIRTIGHTNESS  ANNUAL