Adapting the city
Building & Infrastructure
Iain Grant
Buildings Management Director, Bruntwood
Building Retrofit
C40 Cities
The Key Issues
• For property owners; the preservation of
asset value and ensuring that buildings are
fit for purpose;
• For occupiers; ensuring that staff
productivity is not impaired and where
possible enhanced
• How do we measure our success
• Adaptation is a here and now issue
The Importance of Time (aka The Commercial Imperative)
Includes the differences between
• Strategy and tangible
implementation
• Short term mitigation and long term
adaptation
• Time horizon over which our
investment plans are predicated
Building Retrofit – the key challenges ?
From 37% of UK emissions in 2009 to zero by 2050;
principally from the existing building stock
Heritage buildings
How do we choose which buildings
to adapt and what happens to those
that we reject ?
Funding
VRF Market
Market Volumes
Kw Cooling Capacity
Installed VRF in Use
VRF Market
Growth of Heat Recovery systems
Cooling
only
12%
Heat
Pump
40%
Heat
Recovery
27%
73%
48%
2000
2011
Why?
• Flexibility
• Efficiency
• Cost
How do we fund ?
Has to be sustainable
Stand alone adaptation doesn’t work financially,
build in to current investment plans
Inclusive rents may be the solution (Green Deal et al)
Ultimately a move away from P & L funded costs to
balance sheet investment
The Opportunities
GM wide strategy
We have a GM wide
Governance Structure
Technology exists today
Large number of organisations keen to become
involved, but haven't yet built an effective coalition for change
Adapting the city