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Building Energy Efficiency - is building automation the answer?
Improving the energy performance of commercial buildings has been seen as a “significant goal” for many organisations at least since the “energy crisis” of the 1970s, which was when building automation control services (or BACS) as we understand them today came into being.
Forty years later, we have a mature global building automation industry. BSRIA estimates the total value of all BACS hardware and software sold at over seven billion US Dollars in 2017, with the additional services provided on top of this probably worth about double this.
Energy optimisation has remained the main focus, though comfort is also recognised as key objective, which can raise a potential conflict as to whether energy saving is a higher priority than keeping employees comfortable, happy and in consequence, more productive.
In developed countries like the UK, Germany or the US, the take-up of BACS is growing only by a few percentage points every year, and in view of the cost and complexity of a typical BACS installation, BACS solutions are still mainly to be found in medium or larger sized non-residential buildings.
Read more at https://www.bsria.co.uk/news/article/building-energy-efficiency-is-building-automation-the-answer/