The company is paving the way in the ventilation sector when it comes to its decarbonisation, with clear sustainability targets including increasing its sales of its low carbon products and increasing the use of recycled material in its manufacturing. Vent-Axia has developed three pillars that orientate and deliver its long-term objectives.
• Product – engineer sustainable solutions
• Planet – improve environmental performance
• People – connect people together.
To meet the Government’s 2050 net-zero target, buildings need to decarbonise, which will involve the wide-scale electrification of heating, a move away from fossil fuels, as well as significant improvements to air tightness and building insulation. Heat recovery ventilation will be a key technology to help deliver the final piece of the carbon avoidance by preventing heat loss, so as a technology it is set for significant growth.
The company’s latest heat recovery ventilation products, the Sentinel Apex commercial heat recovery system and the Lo-Carbon Sentinel Econiq residential Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR), have specifically been designed to meet the challenges of decarbonisation. Both systems feature marketleading heat recovery efficiencies of up to 93%. This level of efficiency means that the heating and cooling energy lost through ventilation can be reduced by up to 25% when compared to a 73% efficient heat exchanger in both heating and cooling seasons. Both heat recovery systems also contain energy efficient EC/DC motors with market-leading extremely low Specifi c Fan Power, these types of motors typically mean a third less energy is lost to heat compared to a conventional AC motor, with motor efficiencies better than IE5.
With overheating an issue in thermally efficient buildings the Apex and Econiq have been designed with an automatic summer bypass which is sized to eliminate performance loss. Ventilation on demand is also available as standard so no wasted energy and indoor IAQ is improved. The systems also both contain high levels of fi ltration to ensure the air supplied is fresh and healthy for improved and better indoor air quality.
+44 (0)344 856 0590
