136 states have endorsed the Kyoto Protocol by pledging to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2% between 2008 and 2012. Many countries have committed to far greater reductions. Other countries – as well as home-owners and industrial firms – will fall short of the agreed standard. By setting an example with its own new industrial building, SAUTER is showing how emissions can be cut by half, one step at a time.

If you preach energy efficiency, you should also practice it. The project planners for SAUTER‘s new industrial building, which will house production, assembly and administration departments, have set an example by putting this principle into practice. The concept shows not only how energy consumption can be dramatically reduced, but also how the quality of comfort and usage can be substantially increased at the same time and with no extra costs.

Building to the MINERGIE® standard

In Switzerland, the voluntary MINERGIE® standard allows efficient energy utilisation and extensive use of renewable energies, accompanied by an improvement in quality of life, guaranteed competitiveness and a reduction in environmental pollution. MINERGIE® defines the goal in the form of limit values for energy consumption. There are many ways to achieve this. The important point is that entire buildings are regarded as integral systems: the building shell together with the building technology and services.

SAUTER received the coveted MINERGIE® quality label.

Thanks to a well-insulated building shell and the use of groundwater as a renewable energy source, even more energy costs will be saved and the CO2 emissions will be cut again, by about 20%, with monitoring and control by SAUTER EY-modulo, the very latest in building automation.

Optimising energy usage during operation was already considered in the planning phase. The SAUTER ECO10 energy-efficiency programmed should continue to reduce consumption and operating costs on a sustained basis, one step at a time. In this way, the entire concept will ultimately help to preserve the building‘s value in the long term.

Sauter Facts – issue 19