Benefits of following Best Practice
This Guide has been prepared by 3D Technical Design Ltd. to increase best practice awareness and inform; Clients, Consultants and Contractors of the most cost effective, collaborative and quality led process to follow when planning and designing a buried heating/cooling network.
By following 3D Technical Design Ltd.’s best practice process, projects benefit from;
- Increased awareness and management of the complex; technical, commercial and buried risks, which are associated with installing large diameter, rigid steel pipes in dense city centre environments.
- Identification, proving, and justification of an optimum route.
- Significantly reduced and more accurate CAPEX.
- Informed Stakeholder Management.
- Reduced programme durations/disruption.
- Improved Governance and Quality Assurance.
- Improved Project Planning and Multi Utility Coordination.
- Compliance with CDM 2015 regulations.
- Improved future operation and expansion of heat networks.
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Consultants: Energy Master Planning and Feasibility
It is important to note that 3D Technical Design’s Best Practice Process complements, not replaces, essential upfront energy master planning and feasibility studies.
Our best practice process recognises and expands on CIBSE’s Heat Network Code of Practice, to practically demonstrate risk identification/avoidance benefits. It’s benefits and guidance should be used to support the case for instructing early/experienced route proving/design prior to construction tendering.