SPIE will continue to carry out the technical management & maintenance for the Province of North Holland for the next 5 years. The Province of North Holland chose SPIE partly due to its excellent ICT resources. Through PULSE CORE, the province has an overview and insight into management information, energy management, and data from Priva. The information is current, complete, reliable, and updated in real-time. This was a positive plus point for the province.
PULSE CORE is part of the services that SPIE provides in the buildings of the Province of North Holland. Over the past 10 years, four buildings have been monitored using PULSE CORE. These are unique buildings, each with a different functionality. For instance, PULSE CORE maintains the provincial office, as well as the Huis van Hilde (museum) and the De Dreef office. With the contract extension, another three provincial buildings are added to this list. As a result, PULSE CORE has seven provincial buildings under its monitor: four of these are monumental buildings, and three are even national monuments!
Making the buildings energy-neutral deserves special attention. A national monument is a protected real estate object with special historical value. As a result, these buildings require a plan to make them sustainable, in which the preservation of their historical value is important. Four of the seven buildings are currently already completely energy-neutral.
The Province of North Holland aims to serve as a role model and lead the way in the energy transition. Through Entrepreneurial Collaboration, sustainability ambitions are being developed, partly by drawing up the roadmap to an Energy-Neutral Real Estate Portfolio. The scope is diverse: relatively new buildings, monumental properties, and a museum.
The new contract describes the desired output, but how PULSE CORE will achieve this result is left open. Therefore, a monitoring plan was written in 2023 outlining how technical management and maintenance are monitored, partly using PULSE CORE, how the KPIs are ensured, and how any deviations are communicated so that it is clear and transparent for all parties.
The province embraces the philosophy of ISSO Duurzaam B&O, which focuses on satisfied users in buildings and optimal energy efficiency of buildings, installations, and processes. Building blocks Comfort, Sustainability & Asset Monitoring can align with this to monitor and further optimize the goals of the Province of North Holland.
In the first phase, our digital platform for building management, PULSE CORE, has been fully set up. This enables energy management, insight into comfort per room, asset management, building system monitoring, and operations support for the Province of North Holland.
In the coming period, the scope of PULSE CORE's services will be further expanded. Previously, PULSE CORE services ensured that the Province of North Holland met its technical KPIs by monitoring this data. In the new assignment, it is not just about monitoring the KPIs; PULSE CORE and the Province of North Holland will also collaborate in an entrepreneurial manner.
In this context, PULSE CORE will get to work on three of the five building blocks. With the building block Sustainability, energy monitoring is deployed. The PULSE CORE team conducts various analyses regarding possible measures and observed deviations. With the Asset Monitoring building block, various KPIs are examined to ensure the sustainable use of the buildings. Finally, the Comfort building block monitors the indoor climate to provide a comfortable and healthy working environment for the employees.
PULSE CORE has established 30 technical KPIs, which are determined based on BMS data. These are KPIs such as room temperature, humidity, air quality, and temperature difference for geothermal energy. Every building of the Province of North Holland has the same set of KPIs; however, the threshold values differ for each building. This is because there is a great deal of diversity within the buildings. For example, a museum cannot have the same requirements as the provincial office.
The collaboration between SPIE (PULSE CORE) and the Province of North Holland is an integrated approach in which the nature of the work, in addition to preventive, corrective, and replacement maintenance, also encompasses management activities such as monitoring, reporting, functional control, energy management, compliance, integrated quality, and risk management.
As equal partners, SPIE and the Province of North Holland will embark on the energy-neutral roadmap. PULSE CORE provides the data and insights to enable sustainability efforts and to verify whether sustainability actions (for example, installing a new cooling unit) actually have the desired effect. By having access to data, the Province of North Holland has more control over the various buildings, which leads to fewer concerns.
Together, PULSE CORE and the Province of North Holland will get to work again in the coming years to realize the province's sustainable ambitions. The contract between PULSE CORE and the Province of North Holland is concluded for five years, with a possible extension through 2033. This confirms the Province of North Holland's commitment to working together intensively for another ten years.
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