TREATMENTS AND FLUIDS
A new dawn for temperature control
Recycling is universal, LED lighting is commonplace and buildings are now designed from the ground up specifically to mitigate environmental impact. Technical sales manager, Kilfrost Neil Jimpson explains how advances in heat transfer are doing their part in revolutionising temperature control in buildings.
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or many years, energy and facility managers have been at the forefront of an organisation’s efforts to introduce and maintain practices that are
environmentally friendly.
For those whose responsibility it is to drive forward an organisation’s green credentials, there is an increasing pressure to find new and innovative ways of increasing a building’s energy efficiency and its ultimate impact on the world around us. Within the World Energy Outlook 2019 summary research document, the Current Policies Scenario gravely highlights what would happen if we returned, post coronavirus pandemic, to the same energy demand trajectory. In that scenario, energy usage rises by 1.3% each year to 2040, with increasing demand for energy services unrestrained by further efforts to improve efficiency, resulting in a relentless upward march in energy-related emissions.
Part of the pressure of exploring and harnessing new 24 June 2020
energy efficiency measures comes from an impetus to not only save money, but to protection reputation. In the hospitality sector, according to a European Commission report reviewing environmental management practice in the tourism sector, the average hotel with 80% occupancy consumes 600MWh a year for HVAC alone, and consumers have an increased desire to see organisations taking action.
For example, a Visit England report over half (58%)
want to stay in accommodation with green awards and environmentally-friendly practices. In fact, there’s not just a pull towards businesses implementing green practices, those who don’t adopt them are fast being left behind. In a 2018 global trends survey for Neilson, nearly two third of consumers said they would boycott a business based on its stand on societal issues such as the environment.
Despite this, when it comes to reducing the amount of
energy used to maintain a comfortable temperature inside a building, innovation has been sorely lacking.
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