A great Australian project to improve energy efficiency

Delta Building Automation teams up with Optigo Networks to retrofit 45 Benjamin Way 

Delta Building Automation (Australia) had a big job renovating the Australian Bureau of Statistics HQ (ABS). The building owner wanted to improve the building’s energy use and increase the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) score to more than 4.5 stars, out of a possible total of six.

Leading the way in energy efficiency improvement in recent years, Delta (Building Automation) has been working on buildings across Australia, adapting to meet new requirements. NABERS is designed to guide building owners and managers on their journey towards environmental friendliness.

For buildings that have optimized their systems, the benefits are fantastic. NABERS has already contributed to massive energy savings across the country, reporting that “In 2013 alone, re-rated office buildings achieved a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 380,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, and saved 1.6 million litres of water.”

Unfortunately for this particular project, all commissioning information and original source code of the previous BMS system had been lost, making it harder to tune and achieve a higher NABERS rating. There was no existing network infrastructure, and no management system to measure the energy performance of the building.

Delta Building Automation teamed up with Optigo Networks to create an entirely new Operational Technology (OT) network backbone. The Optigo Connect solution provided a high performance system that brought IT to the building operator level.

Find out how this collaboration designed and delivered an energy-efficient, future-proofed building network against all odds. Download the case study or watch our interview with Hendra Nugraha from Delta Building Automation!