W Communications/Security/Control Systems

Contents

W2 COMMUNICATIONS - AUDIO-VISUAL
W22 Information/Advertising Display
W3 COMMUNICATIONS - DATA
W30 Data Transmission
W5 PROTECTION
W52 Lightning Protection
W6 CENTRAL CONTROL

W22 Information/Advertising Display

CONSIDER:
• All appropriate renewable systems including:
- Specify most efficient appliances and luminaires: Efficiency: Grade A in all cases.
- Significant energy savings over life of equipment and of building can be achieved.
- Specify most efficient lighting, consider LED and piezo-electronic systems where available and appropriate.

W30 Data Transmission

CONSIDER:
• CDM regulations suggest designers should consider the health risks of occupants in use.
• Precautionary principal should apply.
• Use of thin Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Thin Film Transistor (TFT) monitors.
• Use of lead caps on all ports on computer CPU rears but lead is now seen as a bad material to have around.

AVOID:
• Radiation from infrared and radio transmission from wire-less computer networks should be considered with some suspicion as a form or radiation which may have a detrimental effect over prolonged exposure.
• Electro magnetic radiation from Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) computer monitors and rear connections.
• Electro magnetic radiation from computer Central Processing Unit (CPU) rear ports.

W52 Lighting Protection

CONSIDER:
• Electricity supply: hand over the building to the Employer (Client) with a Green Tariff electricity supply, avoiding the financial burden of the equipment to generate renewable electricity.
• Private networks linking many generation plants in many buildings, around sites, campus, or towns.

W6 Central Control

CONSIDER:
• Centralised control modules which maximise the efficiency of use of many sources of low medium and high grade heat and power sources for optimum efficiency.
• Building energy management systems which warn if door, windows, rooflights, smoke vents and fresh air and replacement air vents are left open and loosing heat or cool.