Passive design is some sort of concept you might not have met or believed would benefit your building. Let’s talk about this concept a bit more and see how it will benefit you.
Passive design is a way of harnessing the useful characteristics of your surrounding environment to promote natural heating and cooling. Utilising the sun’s natural heat to warm your building is one example of how passive design works. The other way around is to position your building or design it in a way that captures natural breeze to create a natural cooling effect. It is actually one of the many practical energy saving solutions offered by numerous companies.
Nowadays, businesses have switched into the adaptation of passive design to achieve building energy efficiency. This does not only apply to newly-built buildings. It does apply to older ones too. With the aid of EP&T’s EDGE platform, it is now possible to customise and adopt the passive design.
Effective passive design actually includes proper orientation. Even after your building has been built, it would not be a hopeless case. With our EDGE platform, you can still optimise your building spaces. Always remember that placements and directions will have an effect on your building energy efficiency. This is exactly why building energy management systems have been adopted by more and more companies. In fact, in the past three years, the total floor space has globally increased which also calls for the need for building energy management systems.
As part of EP&T’s EDGE platform, smart buildings are created. Smart buildings understand how heat is absorbed, stored, released, and distributed throughout your building. These are all analysed in the EDGE platform to produce smart energy solutions.
The proper insulation of walls, ceilings, and floors are also analysed by our EDGE platform. As reports about the building’s heat and humidity are being analysed, clients are offered recommendations on how to better manage internal temperatures thereby resulting in energy saving solutions.
The right amount of shade your building needs is also analysed by EDGE. This is to ensure that the normal heat is able to penetrate areas of your building when necessary. Controlling how heat is absorbed is one of the smart energy solutions provided by our platform at EP&T Global.
Window placements also have an effect on your building’s energy efficiency. Heat gain and loss is determined by the appropriate window placement. This is actually one of the less-known components of the complete passive design.
Applying the concept of passive design, it will never be too late to redesign your building and make it smart. At EP&T Global, we’ll make it all happen.
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