Retrofitting Commercial Property Provides Business Opportunity
Refurbishing and retrofitting commercial buildings as part of an overall sustainable strategy, is the main challenge for many cities and regions over the next two to five years.
With current demands for energy producing concerns over future consistency of supply and so-called “green” energy not being sufficient to fill in the gap left by fossil fuels. Hence, even if every hillside had a wind turbine, every estuary had a power station, each bay had wave power generation and even if we use solar panels and photovoltaic cells, research suggests we probably will not meet our current energy needs. It might only be possible at best to produce 10% of our needs this way.
Hence, saving energy has a far better payback than trying to generate “green” energy. Therefore, existing commercial buildings need to be made energy efficient. Domestic and non-domestic buildings create 46% of our current CO2 output.
One of the most effective ways of improving energy efficiency in commercial real estate is by taking simple measures such as installing intelligent, automated lighting and air-conditioner controls such as Enigin’s LESS and ACES products. These have low capital costs, simple to install and will produce an early payback with reduced energy bills.
Retrofitting for energy efficiency and sustainability will increase value and extend the age of commercial property with retrofitting investment providing a good ROI.
So rather than a bleak future the current commercial property looks set for a face lift as it makes good financial sense to upgrade these buildings to sustainable and energy efficient status.
Enigin Distributors can help many local commercial property owners and business managers to start to retrofit their office or commercial space and hence enjoy the benefits now and into the future.
