Building engineering

Energy Surveys

For the most part, an energy survey of a building will be required to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption costs and increase energy efficiency in the building fabric, building services and equipment.

How to Write an Energy Policy

In order to know how to write an energy policy you must first identify what it is that your organisation wants to achieve from the policy document.

Energy Awareness

Energy awareness is an essential step to good energy management as it ensures that all stakeholders are aware of any new energy-saving initiatives.

Business Energy Saving Action Plan

A simple business energy saving action plan should aim to look at adopting the following actions to reduce energy consumption and costs.

Reasons to Save Energy

There are many reasons to save energy within business that include financial, environmental and business management benefits.

Rising energy prices over the past few years has seen many companies recognise energy costs having a very significant impact on profits

Financial support from government over the past few years has seen energy initiatives provide grants and other forms of financial aid for businesses to adopt green technology and better environmental business practice

Green Building Design

Green building design should take a holistic approach and include the building envelope, the climate, building services, and human factors.Green building design should adopt a top-down approach that considers the overall design intent before implementing any individual measures.

Building Services

When considering the building services energy efficiency should look at areas such as the type and size of the system to be employed, planned controls and efficiency, fuels and operating regime.

Building Envelope

Energy Efficiency in Building Services

energy efficiency in building services is essentially achieved by minimising the requirement for the building services and in doing so minimising the energy consumed. In a cold climate energy efficiency can be achieved by optimising heat gains through careful orientation of the building and by using suitable technologies in the construction of the building. Insulation and heat recovery should ensure that where heat is generated to warm a building it is not lost rapidly to be external environment.

Air Curtains

Air Curtains are just one of the ways that you can have the best of both worlds when trying to save energy. When you need to keep heat inside a building, but you need to keep doors open at the same time, air curtains provide a great solution.

Air curtains can be used for both external and internal doorways, wherever there is a large temperature difference on each side of a doorway.

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