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The installed base of connected building automation systems in Europe and North America is forecast to exceed 34 million by 2024, a recent research report has been able to suggest. According to IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, this represents a compound growth rate (CAGR) of 11.0 per cent. Around 3.2 million connected building systems were […]

Allen Martin, the manufacturer of BMS systems for over 30 years, went bust in July 2019. Since then, many of Allen-Martin’s customers are finding is almost impossible to get support for these systems. The good news is that a new grant of £1,000 is being offered to all Allen Martin customers who want to scrap […]

As you might be aware already, the HeatingSave products are authorised by the UK Government on its Energy Technology List- an official endorsement and recognition that they meet the Government’s specific energy-saving or energy-efficient criteria. HeatingSave Building Energy Management Systems will now be even easier to find, as the UK government has launched an improved […]

As the first signs of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic are starting to appear, city governments worldwide are looking to accelerate an economic recovery from COVID-19 that enables people to get back to work, while preventing climate breakdown from becoming an even bigger crisis. One solution these bodies are looking into is investing COVID […]

The global Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) market is expected to reach US$8.4billion by 2027, trailing a post COVID-19 CAGR of 12.4% between 2020 and 2027, a recent market research report has been able to suggest. Building Management Systems are sophisticated systems integrating hardware, software, and services with information and communication technologies for monitoring, automating, […]

A scheme comprising 214 new properties that will incorporate renewable technologies and smart energy management systems to significantly reduce the energy demand on the grid has started being developed in Cardiff, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The scheme will take energy performance standards to a new level […]

Smart building management systems continue to represent a very important and growing trend in facilities management, as it’s expected to soar with a CAGR of 29.96% until 2023, a recent market research report has been able to suggest. A smart building is a structure which uses automated processes to control various building operations such as […]

The UK government has set out plans to improve homes’ energy performance by making them subject to new higher energy efficiency standards, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The standards will apply to both new and existing homes, with all new homes required to have low-carbon heating such as heat pumps and […]

Building management systems that carefully control all HVAC, lighting and heating systems within a building can help hospitals become a lot more energy efficient. And one of the latest examples of such a deployment comes from Gloucestershire, where the region’s largest hospitals have received £13.7million funding for a range of energy-efficiency projects. Aimed at hitting […]

According to recent estimates, 68% of the world’s population is likely to live in cities by 2050. As a direct consequence, world energy demand is set to increase by more than 50 percent by 2050, according to predictions by the US Energy Information Administration – resulting in even higher energy consumption. While an increasingly higher […]

Schools, libraries, leisure centres and cultural venues like the Theatre Royal in Newcastle will soon get a green revamp after the local authority secured £27.5 million in funding to decarbonise them, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The scheme is predicted to remove up to 4,050 tonnes of […]

The Industrial Decarbonization Strategy, published March 17, is part of the UK’s ambition to effectively eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy allocated more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) to projects that can help drive down emissions in hospitals and schools, as well as factories. The launch […]