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Funding Retrofit for Public Buildings

Funding Retrofit For Public Buildings.

The Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is a £1billion fund being made available now for the upgrade of public buildings and social housing to make them more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. Projects with a focus on decarbonisation of heating and hot water will undoubtedly be a priority when granting funds as, according to 2019 figures … Read more

Making ASHP Work For Commercial Applications – Part 2

Making ASHP Work For Commercial Applications – Part 2.

The Hybrid Approach In part one, we considered the challenges and limitations of an Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) only system, with particular focus on the problems commercial organisations faced when retrofitting existing properties with new heating and hot water applications. In this concluding part, we look at the advantages of adopting a hybrid system … Read more

Making ASHP Work For Commercial Applications – Part 1

Making Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP) AdvecoWork For Commercial Applications - Part 1

Understanding the Challenge of Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP) Commercial organisations face a somewhat unfair challenge as they are held by the Government to be leaders in the move to control and reduce carbon to achieve net-zero by 2050, yet are limited by the technology options that the Government is showing active support for. The … Read more

Adveco’s Packaged e-Hot Water System Named Finalist in 2020 HVR Awards

Adveco’s Packaged e-Hot Water System Named Finalist in 2020 HVR Awards.

Named finalist in the HVR 2020 Commercial Heating Product of the Year. Reduce operational costs by offsetting up to 70% of the energy required by equivalent sized systems. Dramatically reduces CO₂ emissions. Unique low heat intensity specification reduces the threat of scale formation. Adveco is proud to announce it has once again been named finalist … Read more

Adveco Packaged e-Hot Water System For Low Carbon Hot Water

Adveco packaged plant room for low carbon hot water.

Reduce operational costs by offsetting up to 70% of the energy required by equivalent sized systems. Dramatically reduces CO² emissions Unique low heat intensity specification reduces the threat of scale formation Built-in backup for system resilience, ensuring consistency of service Hot water and heating specialist Adveco, offers commercial businesses with large hot water demands but … Read more

Packaged Plant Rooms – A New Paradigm for Site Safety

Adveco packaged plant room.

Adveco discusses how off-site construction techniques for commercial heating and hot water can alleviate pressures of cost and timescale on construction sites whilst also helping improve Covid-19 safety precautions… There is no doubt that we are going to face long term changes in the way construction projects operate during and in the wake of the … Read more

The Cogeneration Gap – Part 3 Caring for the Environment

Berry Court care home plant room installation.

We have considered the reasons for implementing m-CHP in new builds and upgrading care homes. In this third and final blog in the series, we consider one last deciding factor, the environmental impact of local cogeneration… The carbon savings have long been an advantage of Combined Heat and Power (CHP), and can still be achieved, … Read more

The Cogeneration Gap – Part 2 Embracing CHP

TOTEM T20 CHP unit (Combined Heat and Power unti) in a residential care home.

In the first part of this short blog series on the application of micro-CHP within residential care homes Adveco explained why CHP (Combined Heat and Power) is often chosen for new builds. In this second part, we turn our attention to why you would upgrade existing facilities to m-CHP… The cost of deploying CHP within … Read more

The Cogeneration Gap – Part 1

CHP for residential care homes (Combined Heat and Power).

Often seen as an ideal application within the residential care home, in this short blog series Adveco discusses the argument for onsite energy cogeneration, the operational costs, the environmental impact and highlights the increasing performance gap between ‘dirty CHP’ and the latest generation of highly efficient micro-CHP… Whether building a new residential care home or … Read more

Legionella Precautions When Reopening Buildings

Legionella Precautions When Reopening Buildings

Find the Legionella risk assessment for your building. Restart hot water systems 24 hours before the building is to be reoccupied. Test water temperatures. Get expert advice if a building’s occupants’ health places them in a high-risk category. Commercial hot water and heating specialist, Adveco, today offered a precautionary warning against the dangers of Legionella … Read more