Carrier urges commercial building upgrades to meet Net Zero goals
With 2025 approaching and just a quarter-century remaining for the UK to achieve its Net Zero goals, Carrier HVAC Service is urging building owners and operators to consider the significant environmental and financial benefits of upgrading, modernising, and retrofitting their HVAC systems.
Adrian Hurley, the new President of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), has called for UK authorities to support a national effort to improve the energy efficiency and performance of the country’s commercial building stock.
“When you consider that approximately 80% of the buildings in use today will still
be in use by 2050, our traditional reactive maintenance model to servicing is no longer enough,” said Ralph Davies, Head of Sales at Carrier Service. “There are more than 750,000 medium-to-large-scale existing HVAC units that require technology upgrades to meet efficiency and decarbonisation targets.”
A Ridge report, ‘The Role of Retrofitting our Non-Domestic Buildings in the Race to Net Zero’ in May 2023, found that just 25% of public or private sector organisations had invested in making their buildings more sustainable and just 10% had allocated a budget for retrofitting.
