Uponor presents energy-efficient heating and cooling during the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen

12/12/2009 - 13/12/2009    Copenhagen, Denmark

Uponor’s integrated heating and cooling systems help utilise renewable energy, thus reducing fossil energy consumption and carbon emissions, and bringing significant savings in the energy bill. The company exhibits its innovative low-energy solutions in the Bright Green event in Forum, downtown Copenhagen (exhibition stand No. 11), on 12-13 December 2009.

Uponor presents its new Dynamic Energy Management (DEM), an innovative automatic control system for underfloor heating both in new and existing buildings. The system utilises a new pulsed supply in the heat distribution, which means faster response times and more accurate temperature levels, increasing indoor comfort, and lower energy consumption. A self-learning system, the DEM system gradually optimises its operation by adapting to the specific building conditions. The system has been proven to give additional energy savings of up to 8-10%.

Uponor’s low-energy solutions combine energy savings with superior indoor comfort. This is possible through the use of water-circulating systems that can utilise temperatures close to the ideal indoor environment. Uponor’s product range encompasses a variety of solutions, e.g. underfloor heating systems, ceiling cooling panels and thermo-active constructions that use the building’s thermal mass for energy optimisation. They use energy cost-efficiently and can integrate solar energy, ground heat, heat pumps, biomass, or other renewable energy sources. Compared to traditional heating and cooling systems, they can bring savings of 25-40%.

In the European Union, buildings account for approximately 40% of the total energy consumption, and the majority of this energy is used to maintain adequate indoor climate conditions through heating, cooling, and ventilation. Consequently, improved technical systems and thermal insulation offer great savings potential with short payback times.

As an additional advantage, water-circulating building systems are ideally suited for low or zero-energy cooling. The need for cooling in buildings is constantly increasing, partly due to more extreme weather types but also due to changes in building codes and indoor climate requirements. Choosing Uponor’s heating/cooling systems for a building means that free cooling sources, e.g. in the form of a ground heat exchanger, can be utilised. Such solutions are ideal for office buildings where they can help eliminate power consumption for air conditioning and thus give savings on the cooling bill of up to 90%.

For more information on the event,  http://www.brightgreen.dk/