The Most Direct Route to Energy Savings
Are you managing large institutional or commercial buildings and wondering how to save energy without major renovations amid the energy transition? While long-term decarbonization plans are essential, there are immediate actions you can take, like recommissioning (or RCx), a swift and effective solution to enhance your energy performance sustainably.
As technical experts, Equans Services guides you through this process, helping reduce energy consumption up to 15%, as well as improving occupant comfort, and extending equipment life. Plus, subsidies could cover up to 75% of the costs.
Interested to know more? This article explains how you can reap the rewards from this win-win service.
What Is Recommissioning?
Recommissioning is a process of fine-tuning a building's existing electromechanical systems including HVAC, lighting, ...).
It's tailored for facility managers, property owners, or real estate portfolio managers (such as those overseeing hospital complexes, shopping centers, universities, etc.) RCx addresses inefficiencies that may have developed over years of use, ensuring that operational sequences align with current needs.
Benefits of Recommissioning
- Reducing Greenhouse Gases (GHG): By addressing energy inefficiencies in building systems, you lower your energy consumption and consequently reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
- Improving Occupant Comfort: By enhancing your systems, such as heating or air conditioning, you create a more comfortable living environment for your occupants.
- Lowering Operational Costs: By optimizing your building’s operations, you extend the lifespan of your equipment and avoid early replacement expenses.
How Do We Proceed?
At Equans Services, we provide an integrated and methodical approach to optimizing your facility's performance.
- Planning: Initially, we conduct a comprehensive energy audit of your building to pinpoint the most energy-intensive areas and understand the consumption patterns of your premises. Based on this, we develop a detailed and itemized action plan.
- Investigation : Our experts meticulously examine every system (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) to identify low-investment measures that can be swiftly implemented. Typically, we pinpoint over a hundred specific actions. These are usually low-cost or even cost-free measures (low-cost/no-cost initiatives).
- Implementation (Operating schedules, set temperatures, control sequences): In close collaboration with your operators, we implement the recommended measures, prioritizing those with the greatest energy and cost-saving potential.
- Knowledge Transfer: At the end of the process, we organize customized training sessions to make your team fully autonomous.
- Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up: Over the two years following implementation, we conduct follow-up reports to verify the sustainability of the measures implemented and quantify the actual energy savings achieved.
Why Work With Equans Services?
Extensive Experience: With nearly a hundred completed or ongoing contracts, our teams excel at swiftly diagnosing improvement opportunities and promoting best practices.
Field Expertise: As operators and maintainers of numerous buildings, Equans Services boasts in-depth knowledge of electromechanical installations and their operation.
Control and Automation Expertise: Our engineers leverage specialized expertise in control and automation to optimize your building's energy flows, regardless of the central management system in place.
Operational Excellence: Our certified teams ensure efficiency, reliability, and quality in every intervention.
Unlock Up to 15% in Savings
The recommissioning processes conducted by Equans Services at client sites lead to average energy savings of up to 15%, with a typical payback period of 1 to 3 years.
This advantageous solution not only improves your energy efficiency but also offers long-term reductions in your energy bills!