Kings College London, New Hunts House includes a library covering all aspects of biomedical science along with central offices and scientific support laboratories located near Guy’s Hospital in London.

New Hunts House contains Biological Services in a multi-disciplinary core research facility providing services and advice to research scientists and clinicians carrying out animal research. The facility provides state-of-the-art support for any projects involving genome editing and has a successful track record in the creation of transgenic animals. It also provides a general mouse embryology service for the cryopreservation and re-derivation of lines.

A critical building containing a vast Building Management System controlling all HVAC plant and monitoring systems throughout the various floors of the building.

Identification

The building management system at New Hunts House is comprised of numerous bespoke BMS mechanical control panels situated throughout the building. Many of these control panels are located within the roof plant room serving mechanical plant across the floors. The existing control panels housed various Building Management System controllers of obsolete Siemens manufacture which were utilised to control and monitor heating, ventilation, air conditioning and general mechanical and electrical plant.

The obsolete Siemens manufacturer controllers were due to be upgraded as part of life cycle upgrade works to ensure dependence on the BMS system for future development of the site. The vast scale of the site meant that maintaining the old obsolete control system through resourcing spare parts was proving difficult. This, coupled with other Kings College London buildings being of Trend BMS control system, meant that this site would be changed to Trend to ensure uniformity across their estate with the vision of merging the Building Management System to a central location.