Hot water specialist Adveco has been named a Building and Facilities News (BFN) Company Of The Year Award Winner for Dedication In Sustainability due to its ongoing work developing and promoting more sustainable alternatives for the provision of business-critical hot water services across the commercial built environment.
Adveco continues to win official plaudits for its ground-breaking work and strongly independent stance on delivering sustainability through better design and implementation of lower-carbon hot water systems in commercial buildings. Hot water remains a key business service for critical operations, but also a major contributor to building emissions across the commercial and public sectors. Adveco recognises the importance of reducing carbon emissions from business operations, but also understands that the cost of necessary change cannot become an obstacle to delivering onward sustainability strategies.
Designing a successful domestic hot water (DHW) system for a commercial building today necessitates a thorough understanding of system design. One which demands a nuanced approach, carefully balancing adherence to stringent building legislation, paramount safety considerations, economic viability, and the growing imperative of environmental sustainability. Meeting building regulations and safety should be non-negotiable, but the demand for sustainability can, concerningly, begin to blur these lines. Requirements placed upon commercial organisations are also typified by a lack of guidance and support at the highest levels in the UK, which is allowing for misinformation and poor advice to seep into the specification and installation processes.
Greg Brushett, Sales Director Adveco, said, “It’s really important to not only highlight issues as we work towards net zero, but actively address the challenges of new technology and ageing infrastructure conceived before environmentalism and net zero became formal industry goals. This Building and Facilities news award not only recognises Adveco’s work in developing hybrid water heating systems that cost-effectively reduce daily carbon emissions by embracing solar thermal and heat pumps. But also, the intensive and time-consuming work invested in methods that enable older buildings to bridge to transitional technologies without negatively impacting building structure or daily operations.“
By working closely with specifiers, installers and particularly commercial building operators, Adveco is helping define an integrated perspective of critical factors that will advance building sustainability faster, while able to still prioritise safety and minimise costs now and in the future. In doing so, organisations have a real chance of delivering on net zero promises by 2050.
Read more about the Building and facilities News award and Adveco in the latest issue.
