It is estimated that there are approximately 26 million domestic and non-domestic buildings in the UK that accounts for 50% of UK’s overall carbon emissions. Moreover, new buildings will not be able to make a large contribution to reach the carbon reduction target of 80% by 2050 as they amount to only 1 to 2% of total buildings every year. As a conclusion, much more need to be done to make the existing buildings more efficient through economically reducing energy consumption and achieving a long-term sustainability.
Controls are highly important to the efficient use of energy since it has a crucial role in energy consumption and conservation approaches. Moreover, it can help identify the issues in building system maintenance and management. Building service engineers need to select the best-fit level of control according to the operational requirements and restrictions, the intended maintenance regime, and the current legislation.
Conclusively, the control system should take into account the benefits of cost, the efficiency of operation, the effectiveness of carbon reduction, and the requirements of maintenance. New policies on energy and operation are needed to support the users achieving a most suitable system selection and apply it appropriately.
Syntegra Consulting provides a variety of services for both domestic and non-domestic properties with their energy assessments, energy management, energy utilities products, and energy efficiency products selections. We also provide Building Services Design, Code for Sustainable Homes Assessment, commercial EPC, domestic EPC, Air Conditioning Inspections, BREEAM assessment and so on. All our services will make a large contribution to the effective control for emission reduction in existing buildings.