The first component is guidance on initial system selection and design. It includes predictive software that will quantify energy savings and reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions.
Viessmann also offers a complete range of alternative equipment exploiting the technologies listed above.
Training schemes have been devised — both classroom based and on site.
Finally, Viessmann can provide technical backup in the field.
Stewart Purchase, managing director of Viessmann, explains, ‘Alternative-energy systems are different from conventional heating. They are not “one size fits all”, so there needs to be a clear understanding of what each system can do and how to apply it.
‘There are technical issues, too. For example, a solar system can have fluid temperatures up to 250°C and pressures up to 6 bar, twice that of a pressurised heating system, so that design and installation needs to recognise the safety issues.
Viessmann already offers ground-source heat pumps in its Vitocal 300 and 350 range.
Solar heating is covered by the Vitosol range, in flat-plate and vacuum-tube versions.
Due to be introduced in the Spring is a range of packaged units designed to simplify the application of energy-efficient technologies. The range will include the Vitodens 343 condensing boiler, the Vitocal 343 heat pump and the Vitores 343 heat-recovery ventilation system.
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