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Adveco Wins Award For Innovation In Retrofit

BCR award logo and line drawing of Adveco's FUSION electric water heating system

Hot water specialist Adveco has been awarded the Building & Construction Review 2025 Editor’s Choice Award for its commitment to innovation in retrofit of commercial buildings, with a focus on more sustainable water heating. The award considers recent work carried out by the company to address the continuing demands for gas water heating with increasingly … Read more

Read The Adveco May 2025 Newsletter

Read The Adveco May 2025 Newsletter Welcome to the Adveco May 2025 newsletter… This month, we consider one of the great sustainability challenges in achieving net zero in the UK, the retrofit of thousands of ageing commercial buildings’ systems. We also explore the options available to schools planning to integrate greater sustainability through water heating. … Read more

Three Steps to Sustainable Hot Water In Schools

gas fired water heating with solar thermal preheat

Adveco outlines the three steps available to introduce sustainable hot water in schools: gas water heater replacement, gas heating plus a low-carbon source of preheat such as heat pumps or solar thermal or all-electric water heating. The UK school’s estate is currently comprised of approximately 96,000 buildings. Approximately 85% of current UK building stock is … Read more

Offsite Construction Of Plant Rooms For Commercial Water Heating

GRP plant room being lifted into position for hot water provision

The offsite construction of packaged plant rooms for commercial domestic hot water (DHW) applications is gaining real traction in the UK. This process sees Adveco design, assemble and test complete plant rooms within a controlled factory environment before delivering them to site as ready-to-connect units for immediate commissioning. Compared to traditional on-site assembly, this modern … Read more

FUSION Named Finalist In The National Heat Pump Awards 2025

FUSION Tplus national heat pump awards 20225

Adveco’s FUSION Packaged Electric Water Heating has been named a finalist in the Commercial Heat Pump of the Year category of the National ACR and Heat Pumps Awards 2025. The renowned NACRHP Awards celebrate the best in the HVACR industry and promote the year’s successes. The award nomination focuses on the T & Tplus variant … Read more

Building Sustainable Schools For A Net Zero Future

Building Sustainable Schools For A Net Zero Future

Adveco discusses the best options for water heating to enable more sustainable schools now and in the future… With more than 32,000 schools in the UK and a business-critical need for heat and hot water, the education built estate has historically represented a significant source of carbon emissions. Unsurprisingly, government expectations have, and will increasingly … Read more

Metering School Hot Water

metering school hot water

Adveco considers the numerous advantages of metering school hot water demands before embarking on a major refurbishment of buildings to deliver improved sustainability… Water heating will account for a significant portion of a building’s energy consumption, ranging from 15-40% depending on its use. This makes hot water both familiar and often business-critical, so reducing hot … Read more

Getting Started With Sustainable Hot Water Systems

Woman's hands washing in water in public washroom

Adveco offers some advice on introducing sustainable hot water systems into commercial buildings… To help achieve climate-neutral building stock by 2050 UK businesses are being challenged to reduce operational energy use. By increasing the use of renewable energy supply and prioritising on-site renewable energy sources the hope is to reduce harmful carbon emissions and improve … Read more

Sustainable Schools: Learning About Low-Carbon Water Heating

AO Smith gas water heating installed in UK school

Adveco considers how sustainable schools can take advantage of water heating to support the decarbonisation of the built estate… In the UK, the School Premises (England) Regulations 2012 require schools to have “an adequate supply of hot and cold water” in toilets and washing facilities, unfortunately, the production of hot water alone can drive as … Read more