LATEST control technology can helpto meet legislative carbon requirements

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With the introduction of ever more stringent energy efficient standards and legislation, building engineers need to remain stantly vigilant about how to reduce carbon emissions. /ever, today's climate control systems are already highly gy efficient, so the debate has grown to cover how we should cut usage as well as increase energy efficiency, says Scott McGavin of Daikin UK. The recent Government unveiling of the fourth carbon budget -which requires the cutting of emissions by 50% from 1990 Levels by 2027- means that the installation of the latest energy efficient climate control systems is no longer sufficient to meet the nation's carbon reduction targets. Building managers and owners also need to focus on ways to monitor, control and reduce everyday energy usage as a means to achieve these legally binding objectives. However, embracing a policy of controlling and cutting energy usage is an approach that also offers huge money saving potential. But the question is: how do we encourage end users to cut back on the amount of heating and cooling they demand, when it is widely acknowledged that changing user behaviour is the holy grail of achieving real carbon reduction.