Sustainability and the Environment

A Greater Focus on Sustainability in Building Services Engineering

ULMAN remains committed to sustainability and to reducing and conserving natural resources. As part of the new construction project, the administrative building was already equipped with a hybrid heating system. Over the past few months, this system was expanded to include the logistics warehouse. The existing gas-fired radiant heaters have been supplemented with efficient heat pumps and now serve only as a backup or to provide additional heating when temperatures fall outside the heat pumps’ operating range. Combined with the surplus electricity from the existing PV system, this achieves a high degree of self-sufficiency. The new system is controlled efficiently, sustainably, and on-demand via the standardized KNX bus system, which is already used in many other areas of building technology.

As a pleasant side effect, employees benefit not only from improved heat distribution in the process area but also from supportive climate control during the warm summer months.

LED Lights—A Small Measure with a Big Impact

ULMAN has switched its lighting to LEDs, which reduces electricity consumption and minimizes the carbon footprint. LED lights also have a longer service life, which leads to less waste and lower maintenance costs—and in addition to all these environmental benefits, this allows us to achieve better lighting quality, increase comfort for our employees, and thereby boost productivity.