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to be as compact as possible so they are manufactured from less material, making them more sustainable with lower embodied carbon.
The modular design also increases the life of the fan coil as each component can easily be accessed for maintenance, and replaced if necessary. For instance, fan coil units can be supplied with either ISO grade media filters or a more sustainable lifetime wire mesh filter, like Diffusion’s ‘Eco’ filter which is supplied as standard. Diffusion’s ‘Eco’ filter offers a reduction in waste of thousands of non-biodegradable filters. The ‘Eco’ filter provides a robust environmentally conscious solution that lasts a lifetime, it can be easily accessed and simply vacuum cleaned in situ, making maintenance simple.
Another sustainability benefit of modular fan coil design is that it is particularly important to buildings undergoing a change of use. Fan coil units can be reconfigured on-site to align with a building’s new purpose resulting in substantial sustainability benefits. By avoiding the need to buy entirely new models and discarding existing ones, this approach minimises cost and waste. Instead, the Diffusion modular design enables fan coils to be reused, reducing a building’s overall embodied energy. If a space transitions from open plan to an office the unit can be easily reconfigured to meet noise regulations by simply adding an attenuator to the modular design. The new modular Highline 235 therefore offers customers flexibility, quality and the ability to adapt to future use, ensuring longevity and delivering cost advantages.
Embodied energy
Reducing air and road miles for products and their components is another way to reduce embodied energy. British designed and manufactured, Diffusion aims to have as short a supply chain as possible. For
example, 60% of Diffusion’s fan coil units are transported less than 30 miles to end- users in London, keeping carbon emissions to the minimum. However, it is important not only to design a fan coil with a low embodied energy, it is also vital to be able to measure this and prove it with data, so that specifiers of low carbon buildings have the whole picture and assurance they need. Designed to have a low embodied carbon footprint, Diffusion has used the CIBSE TM65 data collection methodology to collect accurate and detailed embodied carbon information on its fan coil units.
At Diffusion we are constantly improving our products and reducing their carbon intensity. We therefore chose to use TM65 to help customers understand their wider life cycle assessment since it is specifically designed for building services products. Working from a component level, this methodology ensures data is comprehensive, and up-to-date. TM65 considers embodied carbon to be the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacture of a product, its installation, maintenance, repair, replacement and end of life. As we continue on the journey towards Net Zero it becomes increasingly important to be able to precisely measure the carbon we save. This could be through Witness Testing to ensure products perform to their design intent or life cycle assessments and embodied carbon measurements. With Net Zero driving low carbon buildings, modular fan coils, such as the new Modular Highline 235, are poised to become the units of choice. Their modular design ensures a long sustainable product life as they can be easily serviced and re-configured on-site to suit a building’s new purpose and lay out. Ultimately this contributes to reducing embodied carbon throughout a building’s life cycle, ticking valuable boxes on the route to Net Zero.
Safeguard your customers and air
conditioning systems with the installation of a refrigerant gas leak sensor
15+ YEAR LIFETIME, NO CALIBRATION REQUIRED Low lifetime cycle cost of ownership
IMMUNE TO POISONING
The sensor is not affected by hairspray, deodorants or other non-target gases
COMPACT DESIGN AND EASY INSTALLATION Fits into a single gang electrical wall socket
230Vac and low voltage options available
sensor technologies
MULTIPLE ALARM OUTPUTS and BMS monitoring capabilities
COMPLIANCE: STANDARDS & REGULATIONS Helps achieve BS EN378: 2016, BREEAM Pol 01 and F-GAS
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