Building Services Engineering
MEPS have talented, highly skilled and experienced building services engineers who offer substantial expertise and innovation across all market sectors.
We are experts in the design of building services installations. Our highly skilled and experienced building services engineers offer substantial expertise and innovation across all market sectors.
The building services systems within our design services include: –
- Utility Services – Gas, Water, Telecoms, Data, Electric
- Heating – District, Communal and Independent Systems
- Mechanical and Natural Ventilation Systems
- Air Conditioning and Comfort Cooling Systems.
- Electrical Installations – Power, Standby Generation, UPS, Transformers
- Lighting – External, Internal and Emergency Systems
- Safety – Fire Alarm, Security, Access Control, CCTV Installations
- Public Health – Hot & Cold Water, Above and Below Ground Drainage, SUDS.
- Building Controls and Management Systems Including Energy Metering.
- Lifts.
Low Carbon Design
Renewable Energy Design – Legislation and planning require the use of renewables. At MEPS we take a practical and informed approach that our clients have come to rely on.
Key to initiating our options and selection process, we implement passive buildings techniques to create buildings that minimise their environmental impact, in turn reducing their energy consumption and emissions and hence the extent of renewable technologies required.
MEPS designs for building services and renewable systems ensure the optimum balance between legislation, environmental requirements, and cost. We’ll advise you on renewable energy system sizing, selection, and integration of building services, from design concepts through to construction.
MEPS has built Up and in depth Knowledge of the following renewable technologies, including
the design and application.
- Free Cooling/ Heating thermal store/exchange
- Stand alone or roof mounted wind turbines
- Photo Voltaic (PV) solar energy systems
- Solar thermal hot water and solar collectors
- Biomass heating and fuel storage systems
- Combined heat and power (CHP or CCHP) including;
- bio-fuel systems (central energy systems)
- Ground and Air source heating and cooling
- Renewable energy evaluations for planning applications
- Energy strategies report – feasibility, scheme and detailed design
- Renewable energy calculations for Home Quality Mark
- Renewable energy systems design and specification
- Renewable energy building integration
- London Toolkit or Local Authority reviews
- Carbon emission calculations for new and existing buildings
- Technology cost reports, payback analysis and feasibility studies
- Manufacturer option reviews
Thermal Modelling & Software
Understanding how design decisions influence energy consumption, carbon emissions and thermal comfort utilising industry recogonised software.
To fully understand the thermal performance of a building and its environmental impact, it’s essential that a detailed dynamic computer generated thermal model is undertaken. MEPS advises Clients, Architects, and Design Teams with regard to how design decisions influence energy consumption, carbon emissions, thermal comfort, daylight, overheating studies and other building performance metrics.
Steady-State and Dynamic Simulation Modelling (DSM)
Our team of engineers can accurately simulate the thermal performance of a building taking due account of design, climate, and use utilising current and future CIBSE weather files. Building façades can be optimised and plant accurately sized to create efficient and comfortable buildings to live and work in.
Planning applications often require clients to demonstrate how the proposed building addresses their sustainability and low carbon agenda and meets Building Regulations, and this can be achieved through building thermal modelling.
Building Information Management allows us to offer our clients services with reduced waste and increased efficiency by unlocking the benefit of our software and technical investment.
Working together using a single model delivers greater collaboration between shareholders and enhanced trust through the sharing of data.
From inception to operation and construction, our teams employ BIM to provide our clients with predictability, scenario testing and sustainable construction while providing on site safety, construction management and asset management as an integrated process.
Dynamic Thermal and Simulation Modelling using TAS & or IES allows us to investigate:
- Building geometry, including layouts
- Building fabric performance
- Façade design
- Thermal comfort
- Summer Overheating and solar shading
- Natural ventilation, airflow and temperature
- HVAC services installations – sizing and operation strategies
- Artificial and daylight lighting design
- Passive design strategies
- Renewable energy systems
- Energy consumption and carbon emissions
- Occupancy profiles and building use
- Building Regulation and Energy Compliance (Part L, EPC, BREEAM etc)
From inception to operation and construction, our teams employ BIM to provide our clients with predictability, scenario testing and sustainable construction while providing on site safety, construction management and asset management as an integrated process.
MEP Inspections & Validations
Our engineers can provide a broad spectrum of cost effective survey inspections and technical validation testing across multiple systems.
MEPS provides specialist services in respect to investigating Building Services Engineering systems that may have performance issues or in poor condition. We provide our clients with testing, design advice, and consultation.
MEP TESTING & VALIDATION
We Offer The Following Testing & Validation Services: –
- Air and Water Commissioning Validation
- Plant Performance Monitoring
- Automatic Control System Function and Error Testing
- Drainage CCTV Survey Management
- Buried Service Survey Management
- Fault Finding and Investigation Reports
- Critical System Testing
- Intrusive Survey Analysis
- Pipe Condition Sampling and Analysis
INSPECTION & SURVEYS
MEPS provides specialist advice, consulting and report production for the following: –
- Technical Due Diligence Inspection & Surveys
- Dilapidation Inspections
- Pre-Acquisition Surveys
- Vendor Surveys
- Asset Data Capture
- Production of Full Technical Reports and Redflag Reports.
