Energy Retrofitting of Industrial Buildings: Combining Sustainability and Savings

he energy retrofitting of industrial buildings aims to offer companies the opportunity to grow according to a more conscious and environmentally sustainable development path. Reducing one’s environmental impact indeed brings economic benefits because it allows the limitation of consumption or the option for greener supplies, while also aligning with the general desire for environmental protection.
Interventions that improve the energy efficiency of an organization’s properties help develop communication that conveys messages of commitment and positivity to stakeholders, and more generally, they contribute to building an image of reliability and innovation within the target audience.
Therefore, the energy retrofitting of industrial buildings does not only hold economic and environmental value—already sufficient reasons to proceed with implementing efficiency solutions—but it is also an objective demonstration of a concrete commitment to the planet. In today’s landscape, this kind of interest becomes a merit worth communicating to people because, as mentioned, it positively impacts a company’s reputation. We discussed this in an article dedicated to the sustainability report; if you want to explore it further, you can find it here.
In a scenario where energy costs are soaring, energy efficiency operations become fundamental to maintaining significant margins. However, in too many cases, companies prefer to maintain the status quo or invest in more efficient and low-impact heating and air conditioning systems. In other situations, organizations resign themselves to temporary and transitory measures because they fear even higher costs in the case of traditional structural retrofitting interventions.
In reality, there are indeed opportunities to make these properties efficient in a lasting way and with affordable investments, and what is even more important, with sustainable, guaranteed, and easily installed solutions.

Climate Neutrality Goals

Today, the choice of an increasingly reduced environmental impact becomes a fundamental element of a path that is, in part, obligatory. It is no longer possible for organizations to pursue growth processes that do not take sustainability into account.
The European Union has defined, with the Net-Zero Industry Act, a regulation approved by the Council outlining the strategy by which companies must achieve green energy transition goals.
In this framework, the energy retrofitting of industrial and commercial buildings becomes a necessity because, on the one hand, the interventions required of the industrial world concern resources related to production, while on the other hand, the efficiency of the buildings cannot be overlooked.

Improving Energy Efficiency

The biggest challenge in this sense is the reduction of thermal and electrical energy consumption needed to manage the heating and cooling systems of a building stock that is generally old and very inefficient from an energy perspective.
The critical point lies in thermal dispersion and solar shading of properties and industrial buildings, which, in most cases, date back to the 1970s and 1980s and are extremely underperforming in this regard.
Indeed, it is not newly constructed buildings that experience these difficulties, as they were designed to meet stricter efficiency requirements and standards, but rather older buildings that were not required to meet these needs at the time.
How can a company that is now, in a sense, obliged to undertake the energy retrofitting of its headquarters, warehouses, and factories intervene to improve their energy efficiency without being forced to undertake complex, invasive, and costly structural renovation projects?
The most logical solution is to rely on industry partners who share sustainability goals and understand the needs of each individual company to propose truly advantageous solutions. The convenience for an organization is evaluated on several factors, not just the economic one. The most advantageous interventions are those that, while ensuring a certain result, can also be said to be easy to install—solutions that do not require the company to disrupt its production cycle or ongoing activities, as this constitutes an indirect cost.
Serisolar presents itself to organizations in this sense as the partner for energy retrofitting of buildings, offering its experience to provide guaranteed interventions that are easy and quick to install and can last over time.

Innovation in the Energy Retrofitting of Industrial Buildings

In the construction sector, the value of innovation is twofold: on the one hand, it means compliance with increasingly high performance standards in terms of impact, and on the other, it equates to the guarantee of proposals that look to the future and are therefore more valid in the long term.
Energy retrofitting strategies that include structural interventions but do not involve masonry work can be defined as extremely innovative in this sense. Not because they are newly born solutions—on the contrary—but because, over time, they have seen a constant improvement in the products offered and because they interpret the needs of buildings in a way that somewhat overturns the intervention perspective.
These are low-impact solutions that, in turn, aim to reduce the environmental impact of an industrial building. As simple and intuitive as it may seem, many companies prefer to resort to traditional structural interventions that are extremely costly economically, whose installation, although aimed at reducing emissions, in turn generates a significant impact. Which, it goes without saying, becomes almost paradoxical.

Serisolar’s Commitment to a Sustainable Transition

The consulting services offered by Serisolar to companies focus on innovation and sustainability to propose tailored energy retrofitting solutions. The use of solar shading films for transparent surfaces and heat-reflective paints is indicated for all interventions where concrete results are required in a short time.
Serisolar has always relied on leading brands in the sector, whose products are top of the range. However, the service is not limited to supply but also includes installation by highly specialized technicians. Finally, the guarantee offered by Serisolar is not limited to the product but includes installation to provide a turnkey service of high quality in all its aspects.
Solar shading, which relies on highly performing and advanced technological solutions, intervenes for the energy retrofitting of industrial buildings at the structural level. By countering solar radiation, it effectively reduces the thermal load in the warm months, while insulating the surfaces and glass achieves a similar result in the cold months. On the one hand, solar shading prevents excessive heating of the environments, while on the other, insulating films help reduce thermal dispersion, favoring the maintenance of the internal microclimate.
Contact us to identify the best strategy for the energy retrofitting of your company’s buildings. With Serisolar’s expertise, companies can achieve goals that demonstrate their commitment to the environment in a short time.