COMFORT CONTROLS CASE STUDY

HILTON BOURNEMOUTH HOTEL

Comfort Controls chosen by Hilton Hotels and the Kane Group to provide a unique Building Energy Management system offering integrated bedroom and central plant energy efficient control at the new Hilton Bournemouth Hotel.

Mike Wood, Comfort Controls Project Manager highlighted that ‘This is an especially exciting scheme for us, as we are one of the first to implement the latest in hotel guest experiences, offering an attractive intuitive bedroom guest colour touch screen FCU controller for all 170 bedrooms. The environment can be adjusted, within limits, to specific preferences by the guests, assuring a perfect ‘front of house’ experience.’

The 4/5 star hotel development includes 170 bedrooms,

15 luxury ‘Ted Baker’ designed high level penthouse

apartments offering magnificent views over the sea and

the towns beautiful central gardens. A sky bar with sea

views, Spa with treatment rooms, swimming pool and a

celebrity chef run restaurant tops off the excellent

facilities for the guests.

Steve Zimmerman, Comfort Controls Sales Manager

commented, ‘Whilst the guest experience is of paramount

importance, the additional operational ‘back of house’

benefits to Hilton, include the provision of fully automated

and energy efficient management of the 170 bedrooms. A

selection of instantaneous and historical management

data is also provided for the staff to understand and

manage the facility efficiently, for the benefit of both

guests and Hilton.‘

The system seamlessly assures that the bedrooms’ HVAC is

not needlessly operating at full capacity, with two levels of

energy saving modes depending on either booked/un-

booked or unoccupied/occupied.

This project is innovative in that it is one of the first projects to both integrate the central M&E services plant with all of the 170 bedrooms, by utilising the Schneider Electric system and the latest SE8000 FCU BACnet colour touch screen display. Uniquely, there is also a direct interface to Hilton hotel’s ‘OnQ’ worldwide room booking system, to automatically set the environment in the bedrooms, ready for the arrival of the guest.

COMFORT CONTROLS CASE STUDY


Historically, hotels have disparate control systems in terms of controls for the central plant equipment and bedrooms. Due to cost and lack of suitable networkable sensor products in the industry, the bedroom controls are typically standalone and the hotel management team have limited or no information on conditions. One of the innovative solutions of this project is the use of a new range of SE8000 FCU compact touch screen controllers which come complete with integral in-put and outputs to control the room fan coil unit directly. Tradi-tionally this would have been achieved by two separate prod-ucts, which increased the instal-lation costs.

The SE8000 maintains the bedroom at 18–24°C when un-

booked and unoccupied. Once the room has a booking,

the system reduces the band to 20-22°C to make it com-

fortable ready for arrival. Once the guest enters the key-

card, the lights are available and the guest has full tem-

perature control. The SE8000 is also linked to the win-

dow to alleviate wasted HVAC energy when open.

Ian Wilson, Hilton’s Director of Engineering Support com-

mented ‘ We have been working closely on developing

this novel solution for our new hotel developments with

SE8000 manufacturer, Schneider Electric and integration

specialist, Comfort Controls. We are very pleased with

the outcome and performance of this first project and

look to expand the system in our future developments.’

The central M&E services are controlled by 7 No. Motor Control Centres located in plant rooms around the hotel. Each of these have their own networked Automation Server and IOU modules serving systems throughout the hotel over various communication protocols including: 4 x Packaged Chillers communicating to

Rooftop MCC via Modbus. 14 x Packaged AHU’s communicating

over BacNet/IP. 50 x Electricity meters monitored and

logged over Modbus. 250 x SE8000 controllers interfaced via

BacNet MS/TP to BacNet/IP.

The benefits to Hilton include the provision of full opera-tional, management and energy efficient management and data for the 170 bedrooms at this new hotel. The system seamlessly assures that the bedrooms HVAC is not need-lessly operating at full capacity, with two levels of energy saving modes depending on either booked/un-booked or unoccupied/occupied. As the SE8000 all in one attractive colour display, inte-

grated IO and networkability, provides a unique level of

minimised installation cost, this new unit ‘opens the door’

for Hilton hotels to have visibility and central integrated

control of the bedrooms as well as the traditional plant

room equipment.


Glen Darnell, Project Manager for the Kane Group commented, “We at Kane Group were very happy with the level of service and professionalism we received from Comfort Controls. The pro-ject was an outstanding success due to the well-coordinated works and service from Mike Wood, we always received accu-rate and precise information re-lating to any BMS requirements.‘’ Comfort Controls has been providing quality, cost-effective building control and energy management /monitoring solutions since 1984, serving a multitude of market sectors including healthcare, universities, schools, retail, industrial manufacturing and leisure. Comfort Controls’ primary objective is to ‘create energy efficient buildings that are safe, sustainable and beneficial to the occupants.’

Unlike many other Building Management Systems (BMS) companies, Comfort Controls provides a complete inhouse service from start to finish; from specification, through to the engineering and design of the system, manufacture of control panels in their own purpose built workshops, electrical installation, programming and commissioning, as well as offering post installation service and maintenance.

Comfort Controls is an approved Trend Technology Centre partner, an Elite partner for Schneider Electric and business partner for Siemens. They have a proven track record, with 30 years experience with installing and maintaining building management systems and products. Comfort Controls aims to strengthen and develop the relationship with existing and future customers through this new venture by offering a competitive and best in class engineering and customer experience.

For more information on Comfort Controls please visit www.comfortcontrols.co.uk. Email [email protected] or call 01442 248328

Project Title

Project Address Upper Terrace Road

Bournemouth

BH2 5EL

Consulting Engineer

Main Contractor

M&E Contractor (Direct Customer)

Project Type Schneider StruxureWare Building Manage-ment System controlling 170 bedrooms and all central plantrooms and leisure centre and swimming pool.

Applications. Gas Fired Heating and Hot Water Systems. 250 No.SE8000 FCU Touchscreen Controllers. 14 No. BACnet/IP Interfaced AHU’s. 4 No. Modbus Interfaced Chillers. 50 No. plus Modbus monitored Electricity

Meters.



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