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Launching A Sustainable Strategy for Commercial Buildings

1.5c global climate change limit exceeded. globe dowsed in water

The importance of launching a sustainable strategy for commercial buildings has never been more important. According to data from the EU’s climate service reported by the BBC today, global warming has, for the first time, exceeded 1.5C across an entire year. This temperature limit, promised by world leaders in 2015, has been seen as crucial … Read more

Solar Thermal For Education Buildings

Solar thermal collectors for school hot water

As the education sector is challenged to reduce energy demands to cut carbon emissions as well as trying to balance climbing operating costs, Adveco considers the advantages of adopting solar thermal for educational buildings as a means to meet more sustainable and cost-effective hot water requirements. Capable of offsetting typically around 30% of the energy … Read more

Making A Sustainable Resolution For Public Sector Buildings

Fusion electric hot water system with heat pump cylinder and electric boiler

Net zero is an immense challenge for the public sector, making 2024 an important starting point for a new sustainable resolution… Where do you start with sustainability? If this was an ideal world, we would know exactly what to do and all be producing absolutely zero emissions from all of our activities. But this is … Read more

Commercial Solar Thermal For Installers

Commercial solar thermal for installers

This week we take a look at commercial solar thermal for installers, the advantages and the requirements for delivering a proven sustainable technology as part of a water heating system.  For commercial buildings sustainability undeniably comes at a cost, and water heating remains a major source of energy demand, accounting for up to 30% of … Read more

Adveco Upgrades GL Range Of Cylinders

GLC & GLT hot water cylinders

Commercial hot water specialist Adveco has upgraded its GL range (GLC & GLT) of hot water tanks for 2024. These off-the-shelf cylinders offer low-cost carbon steel shells with a high-quality inorganic enamel lining for commercial hot water projects (DHW) projects requiring direct electric heating, buffer storage, indirect heating or preheat. Single-coil GLC and twin-coil GLT … Read more

Tackling Climate Change In The UK

We start 2024 looking at where the UK now stands in tackling climate change in light of the agreements at COP28 and the latest EU directives… While the UK has withdrawn from commitments EU member states are subject to, the country continues to mirror a great many regulations that extend across the EU, especially with … Read more

“The beginning of the end of fossil fuels…”

oil refinery plumes of smoke

After tense days of negotiation, Chair of COP 28 Sultan al-Jaber this morning gavelled a new deal in what he has claimed to be a “historic moment.” It is “the beginning of the end of fossil fuels,” said Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action. He commented that the deal “could well be … Read more

Innovation In Water Heating

Adveco has been awarded a Buildings & Facilities Management Innovation Award for its work in water heating for commercial buildings during 2023. To celebrate, we take a look at our approach that continues to deliver award-winning innovation more than 50 years after the company was first founded… Adveco began in 1971, when the company was founded … Read more

Embodied Carbon

Embodied carbon molecules

The Importance of Embodied Carbon The building industry is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for nearly 40% of global energy-related emissions. While operational emissions, from energy used to heat, cool, and power buildings have been the focus of attention, embodied carbon emissions, from the production, transportation, and disposal of building materials, are … Read more

COP28 – Climate Change Challenges

tree with green leaves in sun cracked mud. climate change

The 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) is the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Inaugurated in 1995, COP is an annual opportunity for signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to debate solutions to climate change. The key outcome of the COP process has been the 2015 Paris Agreement, signed … Read more