Arguments with colleagues about whether the office is too hot or cold, or too bright or too dim, should soon be a thing of the past. In our increasingly automated world, systems have already been developed that can look after each individual employee according to their personal preferences. And it also means lower electricity bills
High-rise offices function like isolated habitats that are only connected to the outside environment via central ventilation systems, while also being artificially lit, heated and cooled, and insulated from air pollution. All they need is an energy supply, but this naturally means costs for each tenant as well as costs for the environment. Fortunately, energy usage can be controlled and we are getting much better at doing so. ”For many years, the standard way of controlling such systems as the ventilation was with an hourly work schedule – during the day a set amount of air that had been calculated by relevant experts was supplied to a given floorspace, but during the night, weekends and holidays the installation switched to a reduced setting,” recalls Sylwester Marchewka, the EMEA senior regional technical manager for asset services at Cushman & Wakefield. “The installation settings were largely dependent on certain assumptions, rather than on data gathered
91% of content remaining
Unlock full access to the article
Get 17% discount when you pay annually
Access to current material
Choose
Access includes
- Access to current material
Access to all EurobuildCEE materials
100 €
83 €
You save 17% when paying annually
Monthly on one device. Annual payment
Monthly on one device. Monthly payment
Choose
Access includes
- Exclusive news, comments, articles and interviews with the most important market representatives and experts
- Archive containing data and information from the commercial real estate and construction market in Poland and the CEE region, collected over 27 years;
- Eurojobs
- Eurobuild FM
Already have an account? Log in