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Barangaroo is Sydney’s largest urban
regeneration project since the 2000
Olympics and can be considered one
of the most significant waterfront
CBD transformations being undertaken
anywhere in the world.
PROJECT
OVERVIEW
Lendlease is developing the southern third of the 22
hectare former container port, known as Barangaroo
South. The Barangaroo South precinct will have a
mix of uses including three commercial towers, 1,000
apartments (including high-rise), the Crown Integrated
Hotel Resort, shopping, dining and public places.
The environmental targets set for the precinct
challenged the team to design a world’s best practice
District Cooling Plant (DCP), incorporating a harbour
water heat rejection system (HHR). This key piece of
infrastructure forms one of the cornerstone elements
in achieving carbon neutral and water positive
outcomes in operation for Barangaroo South.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The scale of the Barangaroo South
project provided an opportunity
to replace numerous standalone
building cooling systems with a
single centralised system,
providing significant water saving,
spatial and efficiency benefits.
The new DCP located in the Barangaroo Basement, will provide
chilled water for cooling all the buildings in Barangaroo South and
consists of the following three main elements:
a) Central District-Wide Chilled Water Plant (DCP)
b) Harbour Water Heat Rejection System (HHR)
c) Building Specific Energy Transfer Stations (ETS)
District Cooling as a utility service is not commonly used within
Australia and DCP’s utilising harbour heat rejection are not
common globally. The use of harbour heat rejection means
Barangaroo’s buildings have no cooling towers, improving the
amenity of the development while also significantly reducing the
water usage across the precinct–a key element in achieving the
development’s water positive commitment.
BARANGAROO SOUTH DISTRICT COOLING PLANT
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Barangaroo South is a mixed use
precinct consisting of multiple
buildings with differing tenancy usage
and cooling requirements.
Some of the key challenges included:
• Co-ordination between the DCP project team and
each individual building design and delivery team, to
ensure an integrated solution against differing building
project requirements and timeframes.
• Innovation in the design of the plant, systems
and controls to achieve the highest coefficient
of performance possible based on variable flow
condenser and chilled water circuits.
• To provide a level of service that exceeds that typically
provided by a conventional single building solution.
• Extensive time phased thermal modelling of the
heated water rejected to Sydney Harbour by the HHR,
ensuring compliance with Australian and international
environmental protection policies and guidelines.
• Develop filtering and anti-fouling approach to minimise
maintenance, maximise plant life and system reliability.
• Managing multiple project and government
stakeholders including the Barangaroo Delivery
Authority (BDA - the state government entity
responsible for the delivery of the Barangaroo
development), Department of Planning and
Environment (DoPE), Environmental Planning Authority
(EPA), Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA),
Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and other state
and local authorities.
BARANGAROO SOUTH DISTRICT COOLING PLANT
KEY CHALLENGES APPROACH
Lendlease Millers Point (LLMP) Infrastructure Team took the lead
role in the project, with Lendlease Design in the principle role
for the design and development of the plant utilising in house
capabilities.
• Lendlease Design for Mechanical Services (Plant Design
Lead), Sustainable Design and energy modelling, Architects,
Structural, Electrical, Hydraulic, Fire, Environmental and
ArchEng design services.
• Lendlease Building’s Project Management Team.
• Lendlease Building’s Project Delivery and Construction team.
Whilst the plant was being procured and built, Lendlease created
a new business, Lendlease Living Utilities, to own and operate
the plant. This included setting up supply agreements with each
building owner and billing for the cooling energy provided.
In addition to Lendlease Design designing the plant and
Lendlease Building managing the design and construction of
the plant the following was carried out to verify the DCP was
designed to world’s best practice:
• Extensive benchmarking and due diligence studies by
Lendlease completed in Australia and internationally.
• Extensive thermal load modelling of the development taking
into consideration the varying ambient conditions and dynamic
variable cooling loads.
• Peer Review of DCP design by an internationally recognised
Consulting Engineering organisation, with extensive large scale
DCP experience in both the Middle East and North America.
• International Study Tour(s), including inspection of DCPs in
Europe, Middle East and Asia.
• Design review by Australian and internationally based
Operating and Maintenance companies.
• Design input and reviews from local and internationally based
suppliers on key equipment items utilised in the plant.
• Separate Peer Review of DCP controls system design by an
internationally recognised Consulting Engineering organisation
and Australian based expert.
• Internal design review completed by Lendlease Design and
Living Utilities.
• Completion of Lendlease DCP ROAD (Risk, Opportunity at
Design) review process.
• A rigorous pre-qualification process for chiller suppliers
followed by close engagement with shortlisted chiller suppliers.
This resulted in a 5-10% lift in normal chiller performance.
• Testing of the chillers setup on a specially designed test rig so
as they could be tested in series counter flow arrangement. This
was the first time this had been done in the world.
During the delivery of the project the DCP plant has had the
following undertaken:
• On site review of the DCP plant’s construction and quality by
external consultants independently appointed by LLMP.
• On site commissioning witness testing of the plant by an
independently appointed (by LLMP) commissioning agent.
The new DCP plant will undergo a 24 month verification period
that will involve Lendlease Design’s engineers and Sustainable
Design team in conjunction with Living Utilities and its appointed
operator to monitor and tune the plant.
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BARANGAROO SOUTH DISTRICT COOLING PLANT
FEATURES
The final completed DCP will have the following features:
• Cooling provided via 14 high efficiency electric chillers (6
duty sets and 1 low load set) in a paired series counter flow
arrangement.
• Space in the DCP plantroom for the future addition of 2 chillers
(1 additional duty set).
• The use of non ozone depleting refrigerants, variable speed
chillers, pumps and an insulated chilled water piping system.
• On completion, the DCP chillers and chilled water pipework
will be capable of providing 72MWr of cooling to the precinct’s
buildings. To meet project staged opening requirements the
plant currently has the capability to provide between 20kWr to
52,000kWr
• Chilled water is distributed to energy transfer stations located
in the basement of the connected buildings to transfer cooling
from the DCP to the buildings via heat exchangers.
• Dual 70% capacity chilled water reticulation pipework.
• A single stage of cooling transfer to minimise pumping energy
and system losses.
• The DCP chillers will reject heat using a Harbour water
heat rejection system (HHR). The chillers use sea water
directly drawn from and returned to Sydney harbour without
interposing heat exchangers.
• An industrial grade PLC based control and monitoring system
with Lendlease Design developed control strategies to optimise
plant operation. The plant is designed for automated unmanned
operation.
• An extensive thermal and energy metering system to monitor
the production and distribution of chilled water to each
building.
• The exchange information between the Buildings and DCP
control systems for both control and optimisation of plant
efficiency.
• All connected customers (including residential) are billed for
chilled water cooling based on their thermal energy (kWh)
usage, not volume (kL) of water provided.
The HHR System has the following features:
• The use of a harbour heat rejection system enabled zero
consumption of potable water for heat rejection purposes
typically required for cooling towers, saving around 100 million
litres of water per year.
• The HHR’s seawater intake is drawn from the harbour through
a concrete intake structure made up of 3 intake chambers.
These are separated from the discharge pipe by a distance of
approximately 100m to reduce the risk of recirculation.
• The seawater intake is a positive suction system. It is positioned
at a depth of-5m. This depth was determined by the Lendlease
team using more than two years of harbour temperature
monitoring to identify the optimal level for consistently cooler
water temperatures.
• A primary screen (100mm spaced vertical bars typical) and a
secondary screen (mesh with approximately 30mm square
opening) is installed at each intake chamber connection to the
harbour as the initial filter system to prevent large object fouling.
• The primary screen is positioned outside maximum velocity
streams above 0.15m/s to prevent impingement as per USEPA
requirements.
• The intake structure includes the installation of three penstock
valves that provide isolation from the harbour and manually
installed drop boards when required for double isolation during
maintenance.
• A macerating sea water strainer is provided before each pump
to filter out any debris larger than 800 microns before it enters
the pump.
• A sea water jet filter is provided on the discharge of each pump
to further filter the sea water to less than 200 microns.
• Glass reinforced piping (GRP, approximately 500m per chiller
set) in combination with HDPE piping, super duplex stainless
steels, titanium and other specially selected materials and
coatings are used to minimise maintenance, maximise plant life
and system reliability.
• The use of individual chiller set piping systems to maintain pipe
velocities that minimise fouling whilst minimising any energy
penalty.
• The use of an authority approved surfactant as required in
combination with the design features noted above to help
minimise fouling of pipework and chiller condensers.
• Use of maintenance strategies to minimise the use of the
surfactant.
• The seawater cooling water discharges into the harbour at a
short distance below the low tide mark (RL 2.0m) and mixes
with the harbour water.
OUTCOMES
The advantages of a district cooling system vs
conventional individual building cooling plants are as
follows:
• Economies of scale from optimisation of the plant’s
spatial requirements across the development.
• Capitalises on the building usage diversity across
the precinct (residential vs commercial vs retail
vs hotel) to optimise chiller plant capacity and
efficiency.
• The use of multiple chiller sets improves plant
redundancy and reliability and ability to deal with
staged variable cooling demands.
• Offers tenants high grade chilled water for
supplementary cooling.
• Removal of the need for cooling towers allows
space at the tops of buildings for green roofs and/or
renewable energy systems.
The DCP is estimated to consume 12% to 16% of
the site wide electricity use, inclusive of tenants.
The energy efficiency of the plant has played
a critical role in meeting the climate positive
benchmarks for the precinct including:
• Carbon neutrality
• 6 Star Green Star Office Design for the commercial
buildings.
• 5 Star Green Star Multi-Unit Residential for the
residential buildings.
• Providing buildings with the potential to operate at
better than 5.5 NABERs Energy rating
A traditional in-building cooling system would
constitute 30-40% of the commercial office base
building greenhouse gas emissions. The DCP design
developed for Barangaroo South is targeting to
reduce that to 25-30% of the commercial office base
building greenhouse gas emissions, a substantial
reduction from business as usual.
Lendlease created a new business, Living Utilities,
to own, operate and manage this plant and other
infrastructure at Barangaroo South (A Blackwater
treatment plant and a 33kV triplex embedded
electrical network).
5. www.lendlease.com
FOR MORE DETAILS, CONTACT
1. Barangaroo South Infrastructure, Development
Andrew Boutchard, LL Infrastructure Development Manager
Andrew.Boutchard@lendlease.com
Peter Flynn, Barangaroo Infrastructure Development Manager
Peter.Flynn@lendlease.com
2. Basement Stage 1A Infrastructure, Project Management
Dean Dallwitz, Lendlease Building, Senior Project Manager
Dean.Dallwitz@lendlease.com
3. DCP Plant DesignPrecinct Mechanical Services Concept Design and Review
Asar Younes, Lendlease Building, Lendlease Design
Asar.Younes@lendlease.com
4. Barangaroo and DCP plant Sustainable Design Consultant
Graham Carter, Lendlease Building, Lendlease Design
Graham.Carter@lendlease.com
5. Living Utilities Engineering Manager
Bob Norris, Lendlease Living Utilities
Bob. Norris@lendlease.com