Adveco was among the winners at the 2024 H&V News Awards celebrating the technical innovations, outstanding individuals and programmes at the heart of efforts to deliver net zero buildings and industry.
Adveco’s FUSION Packaged Electric Water Heating won the Commercial HVAC Product of the Year – Heating award and was praised by an esteemed judging panel selected from across the heating and ventilation industry.
FUSION is a pre-sized, packaged, low-carbon water heating system for small to mid-sized commercial applications. The concept embraced a hybrid approach to water heating offering specifiers four models and 80+ pre-sized variants to address the most complicated projects, whether new build or retrofit.
Choosing winners that they believe exemplify best practice in the industry’s efforts to create a more sustainable society, the judges said of Adveco’s FUSION, “This is a classic case of a manufacturer identifying a problem and providing a highly practical, cost-effective, and demonstrably satisfactory solution, that has been widely accepted in the marketplace. It clearly met all the judging criteria and deserved to be the winner of this category.”
FUSION makes use of familiar technology including an electric boiler, cylinder and controls plus the option to incorporate heat pumps and immersion. It is relatively simple and quick to install, reducing gas-to-electric transition timeframes and is easy to maintain for immediate reduction of carbon emissions from buildings previously reliant on gas-fired water heating.
FUSION’s breakthrough approach deploys bespoke controls and a sealed primary loop. This approach effectively ends the threat of limescale deposition and costly system damage typically seen in high-intensity electric heating in hard water areas.
Greg Brushett, sales director, Adveco, collecting the award said, “It’s fantastic to receive this prestigious award for FUSION. From technical concept, through to manufacture, sales, marketing and service engineering, the teams at Adveco have worked incredibly hard to make FUSION a reality. To see it embraced by specifiers and contractors as a means to transition DHW in commercial settings to low carbon electricity has been a joy, and to now have this work be recognised with such a prestigious award is amazing.”
The 2024 H&V News Awards, are amongst the most sought-after accolades in the sector. Neil Merrett, Editor of emap’s H&V News and RAC Magazine titles, co-hosted the H&V News Awards. He said of this year’s awards: “We are tremendously proud to reveal this year’s full list of winners. 2024 marks the 30th edition of the H&V News Awards. It is a pleasure to be part of the continued recognition of innovative thinking across the HVAC and building engineering sectors. The winners in 2024 demonstrate some of the most transformational technologies, products and services being developed to tackle notable challenges in the supply of lower cost and lower carbon heat for a range of users.”
