How can you ensure that your commercial buildings are energy efficient, sustainable, regulatory compliant and attractive to tenants and investors, while keeping operation costs under control?
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The answer lies in retrofitting – that is, improving building’s energy generation and supply and/or the way energy flows within the building. Making even small adjustments can go a long way in decarbonizing commercial buildings and mproving how energy flows throughout the building is the area that holds the most promise in terms of energy efficiency gains.
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Renovate smarter to cut costs and boost your building’s performance. Over 30% of the EU’s energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from buildings and 80% of the energy supplied to buildings is still derived from fossil fuel sources. An effective retrofitting strategy looks at how your building can utilize renewable energy sources, such as district heating. It includes installing heat pumps and chillers that can recycle and reuse excess heat, thus lowering your building’s energy consumption, increasing its efficiency and turning it into an energy supplier as well as an energy consumer.
Retrofitting will help with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), the Science Based Targets Initiative or energy performance certifications. It involves optimizing the way energy flows in your building and using digital technology to make your buildings smarter, so you can forecast and anticipate changes in energy demand and identify ways to boost efficiency. These measures reduce your building’s carbon footprint and put you on the path to achieving your climate goals.
Optimizing building’s HVAC system can reduce energy usage by an average of 22% per building, with a payback time of 2 years. The technologies necessary to implement a successful retrofitting strategy are already available, and most offer a payback time of under 5 years. And with carbon pricing on the horizon in many countries, boosting building’s energy efficiency makes good financial sense. ESG reporting requirements are driving companies to think holistically, decarbonizing their entire operations and supply chain. Offering commercial retail space in buildings that are as energy efficient as possible will ensure properties are more attractive to companies with a sustainability focus.
Making even small adjustments can go a long way in decarbonizing commercial buildings.
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To meet climate targets, we must renovate buildings to improve energy efficiency. This webinar shows how to optimize primary energy use, reuse wasted energy, and optimize energy distribution in commercial and residential buildings.
Over 80% of all existing heating systems have an immense optimization potential. Retrofitting is an ideal way to unlock this potential and enhance your commercial building’s performance and sustainability.
The building sector is the EU’s largest energy consumer, using 42% of all primary energy and accounting for 36% of GHG emissions. 80% ofbuilding energy still comes from fossil fuels. Decarbonizing buildings is crucial.
Buildings are central to our lives, with people spending 85-90% of their time indoors. Renovating buildings not only improves quality of life but also saves money, combats climate change, and reduces energy price hikes. Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) are essential for optimizing energy use. Learn how BACS can be considered the "brain" of your building, significantly increasing efficiency and enabling smart interactions with advanced energy systems.
Retrofitting with advanced Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) is one of the most effective ways to optimize energy use, reduce costs, and enhance indoor comfort. Discover how upgrading from on/off room control to modulating control can significantly improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings.
Retrofitting commercial buildings with Danfoss Digital Hydronics enhances system efficiency and performance. It offers seamless integration of hydronic balancing with precise temperature control, utilizing pressure-independent control valves and digital actuators. By incorporating Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS), this advanced connectivity transforms traditional HVAC systems into HVAC 4.0 through data-driven control. NovoCon® digital actuators play a key role in optimizing system operations.
Explore the key trends shaping the future of HVAC within buildings. With buildings consuming 42% of the EU's energy, discover how energy retrofits can drive sustainability beyond regulations. Learn how Danfoss solutions support compliance and digitalization, enabling data-driven decisions for a net-zero energy system.
Our innovative retrofit solutions are designed to minimize energy consumption and carbon footprints in commercial buildings. By upgrading existing systems, we ensure optimized performance, reduced energy costs, and enhanced environmental compliance.
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Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) aims to achieve a carbon neutral, circular and climate adaptive campus by 2030. One of the keys to realizing this ambitious goal is the university’s geothermal project, which will provide sustainable heating to both the campus and approximately 6,000 households in Delft.
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The challenge? Gaining BREEAM credits for energy monitoring at the new multi-tenant, healthy & smart office EDGE Amsterdam West(The Netherlands) and a fast and fail free installation thanks to smart digital actuators.
One of the important requirements for the building owner was to obtain a certification from the DGNB (German Sustainable BuildingCouncil). Furthermore, the layout for the new office spaces inside the ten-story building were unknown and required a high level of flexibility to fulfill the wishes of future renters.
A high-end HVAC system, LED lighting and other technical improvements established a smart and modern office environment. It lives up to the highest customer, energy efficiency and indoor comfort demands.
The EU's revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) mandates hydronic balancing in new and renovated buildings to improve energy efficiency and comfort. This means new heating/cooling systems must be balanced from the start, and existing systems must be balanced when the heat or cooling generator is replaced. The legislation also requires buildings over a certain size to have Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) to optimize performance, which is increasingly relevant for dynamic hydronic balancing solutions.
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To take advantage of the combined balancing and control features of Danfoss AB-QM it has to be equipped with actuators controlled by room thermostats or a Building Management System. Danfoss offers a broad range of actuators varying from thermal on-off to digital step motor actuators with bus communication.
Pressure independent control valves ensure efficient control, delivered in a simple way.
Manual balancing valves provide a static, basic balancing solution for many HVAC applications. The valves limit the flow through different parts in heating, cooling and domestic hot water systems. Since manual balancing valves can not react to changing conditions, the valves are recommended to be used in constant flow systems.
Differential pressure control valves provide a dynamic balancing solution for HVAC applications. The valves eliminate pressure fluctuations occurring in variable flow systems, such as two-pipe radiator systems, at partial load conditions. These types of valves can also be used in floor heating and comfort cooling applications.
Motorized control valves ensure perfect control and efficiency for every building and application. Danfoss Motorized Control Valves (MCV) for district heating and cooling, HVAC and central heating systems ensure stable and accurate control of water, glycol mixtures and steam.
Danfoss Sono® ultrasonic energy meters can be used to identify what amount of heating or cooling energy a house, apartment or building has consumed. These compact meters include an energy calculator to read out the consumption. Danfoss offers meters for heating and cooling applications, for primary and secondary side installation.
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Find Danfoss' range of mechanical radiator thermostats, leveraging 80 years of experience to offer superior temperature precision and control.
Thermal balancing valves provide a dynamic, temperature based, balancing solution for domestic hot water applications. The valves optimize the temperatures in DHW systems having constant hot water circulation. As result heat losses and risk of legionella are significantly reduced.
Domestic hot water systems with water tank are solutions suitable for centralized installations for hot water preparation, such as hospitals, hotels sports arenas, apartment blocks and similar large buildings. The product range covers storage and charge systems which all combine the demand for high performance, comfort, hygiene and resource efficient operation.
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Substations are house heating systems or units in apartments that handle heat transfer from district heating pipes into your home to get hot water and heat on demand.
The performance of the Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger (BPHE) has been proven through 30 years of constant development, ensuring unparalleled efficiency for all applications.