LEED Strategies

 

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  Sustainable sites

 

A.1. Maintain site lighting to prevent light pollution

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Savings from lighting according to requirements

KNX can control large groups of lights, either directly or by integrating the DALI standard, which enables the regulation of LED and fluorescent lights. The control can limit the maximum power values, as well as grouping the lights in lighting scenes. It also enables the use of astronomical clocks and conventional clocks to programme the on and/ or off times. On the other hand, when the external lighting provided is insignificant, the shades or shutters may be lowered to avoid light radiating to the outside.

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  Water efficiency

 

B.1. Install Submeters

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It is possible to locate elements or rooms that consume more water than the average and then correct this trend and save on resources and energy

A good example in KNX can be found in sensors that are able to measure the water flow through a pipe. Thanks to this, it is possible to display instant information or generate records

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  Energy & Atmosphere

 

C.1. Use free energy

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Energy saving in HVAC

With KNX, measurements of humidity and temperature can be taken in order to monitor natural ventilation (opening and closing motorised windows strategically).

 

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  Materials & Resources

 

D.1. Design smaller, more flexible homes and buildings

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Buildings can be designed more rationally to save energy

Thanks to KNX scenes can be programmed, providing flexibility in the rooms. With a scene, the atmosphere can be adapted to suit a particular activity. It also provides for modularity, such as offices with dividing systems.

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  Indoor Environmental Quality

 

E.1. Ensure adequate ventilation

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Air renewal without losing hardly any HVAC indoors 

Thanks to KNX heat exchange systems can be controlled; the air inside a building can be renewed without incurring extra HVAC expenditure. Air renewal can be integrated with other systems that optimise it, such as detection of open windows, cool air recovery on summer nights (free cooling), or humidity and CO2 level management among others.

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Our Values

We firmly believe in the efficient use of energy through applying standard control technologies such as KNX and especially its implementation in sustainable buildings certified as LEED.

We are consultants

We help manufacturers and KNX integrators to make their products and control solutions LEED strategies visible. And just as architects and developers to find ways to cope with LEED projects using KNX technology.

We bring knowledge and experience

We work closely with the KNX providing publications and participating in events worldwide. We have direct contact with the whole group of companies that represent standard KNX control. Our professionals have done KNX projects with energy efficiency solutions and have worked in manufacturing companies.

Advise and train

We know the KNX standard control solutions and how to implement them in LEED projects. We connect businesses between both standards and give advice and training to carry out successful projects. We show the characteristics of each KNX product that makes them valuable in monitoring solutions to undertake LEED strategies.

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KNX Products: Shutter Actuators

knx for leed shutter actuator inphographyTaking advantage of as much of the natural energy that the building's location provides is one of the most important requirements for energy sustainability, and this is contemplated by LEED certification.

The recovery of natural seasonal energy from the building's environment as a source of heat as in the use of solar radiation on windows, is possible thanks to Shutter Actuators KNX. They are responsible for carrying interior blinds or curtains at the appropriate level dynamically to obtain or avoid direct solar radiation through shading depending on temperature and time of year. 

Also, have a good handle on the mobility of internal blinds or shutters, it helps prevent light pollution by acting as a screen between the artificial ilumicacion inside the building and outside after dark.

The range of KNX shutter actuators are wide, making it easy to find the right product for each installation.

The main supplement to control shutter actuators, are the sunset sensors and the KNX weather stations that provide useful, such measurements as wind speed, sun position, level of external brightness, outside temperature,... which act shutter automatically and efficiently as specified by the LEED standard.

 

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26  LEED POINTS 4 POINTS BY KNX

  Sustainable sites

 

A.1. Maintain site lighting to prevent light pollution

 

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Savings from lighting according to requirements

 

In order to avoid light pollution, if the building has motorised interior shades on the windows and motorised shutters on the external part of the windows, the emission of light to the exterior can be limited, This can be achieved by lowering these mechanisms that stop the light from passing from the inside to the outside of the building.

Preventing the emission of light pollution to the exterior is possible thanks to motorised shades and shutter systems and an adequate control, by lowering these devices in low exterior light situations and bright interior light situations (at night). KNX has a large range of devices for the regulation of motorised shades and shutters that can be used to block the emission of interior lighting to the outside.

 

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  Energy & Atmosphere

 

C.1. Use free energy

 

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Benefit from seasonal energy present in the building's environment

Although it depends on the weather in the area, it is possible, especially in temperate regions, to harness the effects of sunlight on glass surfaces around the building. In the winter months, therefore, when the sun is low, solar radiation can naturally warm up the areas near the south-facing façade (in the northern hemisphere) or the north-facing façade (in the southern hemisphere).

In this situation, it is the KNX control system which ensures, by shutter actuators, raise the shutters letting in as much light and heat may naturally help the heating system during the cold season.

 
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