Heat Pumps Today

www.acrjournal.uk/heat-pumps 13 C O MM E R C I A L H E A T I N G "HEAT PUMPS ARE CENTRAL TO DECARBONISING" helping businesses to increase the e ciency of hot water production while cutting their carbon footprint. Other heat pumps o er options for a modular approach, so that multiple devices can operate in one system. This means that the multiple unit system can cascade available units on and o , to meet the required load of a building. It also means heat pump installations are scalable and can work for a small doctor’s surgery through to entire district heating projects. Modern heat pumps can also be applied in buildings alongside other technologies and boost the renewable element of a project – reducing the requirement for heat energy. It is now imperative for everyone to prioritise investing in renewable technology and helping to reach net-zero. For those in the building services industry, there is a real opportunity to lead the way and encourage clients to take a new and more environmentally friendly approach to heating in commercial buildings. The heating equipment we install today will be in a building for at least a decade, so installing a heating system based on fossil fuels might risk leaving the building as a ‘stranded asset’ in the future. Embracing renewable heating will help ensure buildings are meeting e cient and environmental standards both now and for years to come.