Construction

Energy efficiency and intelligent control applied to the building sector

Construction is the art or technique of manufacturing infrastructure. In a broader sense, construction is defined as anything that requires a predetermined project and planning before it can be carried out.

In Spain, construction is one of the main drivers of national growth, contributing in 2019 the 5.9% of GDP¹ and boosting more than a dozen sub-sectors of the economy thanks to its multiplier effect.

For the hotel sector it is fThe proper energy management of your facilities is nowadays essential., The Commission has been thinking over the years of their exploitation.
A more intelligent and efficient use of buildings will not only optimise direct costs by controlling and monitoring their installations, but also improve the quality of service for customers and enhance the company's image by being environmentally friendly. SACI has been involved in innumerable hotel projects for the monitoring and control of your installations.

• Energy management and maintenance of your building
  SACI, with decades of experience in energy efficiency solutions, offers a wide range of products that will facilitate the energy management and maintenance of your building, from energy meters, ultra-immunised earth leakage protection, harmonic filtering systems, management software and reactive energy compensation systems.
• A single installation through to geographically distributed installations
  Our solutions are designed to cover from a single installation to geographically distributed installations, centralising all the information and data that is needed for a single installation.

The management of educational facilities includes not only the energy management of the centres, but also the correct development of their teaching activities, studies and various services.

Consumption in lighting, air-conditioning and office automation can account for up to 80% of the energy consumption. emissions of educational buildings. By adapting these consumptions according to their uses, the saving capacity is considerably maximised.

In centres with a large number of single-phase loads and harmonic generators it is increasingly important to control the consumption quality of the installation and avoid serious problems.

• Energy management and maintenance of your building
  SACI, with decades of experience in energy efficiency solutions, offers a wide range of products that will facilitate the energy management and maintenance of your building, from energy meters, ultra-immunised earth leakage protection, harmonic filtering systems, management software and reactive energy compensation systems.
• A single installation through to geographically distributed installations
  Our solutions are designed to cover from a single installation to geographically distant distributed installations, centralising all the information in one or several points according to the client's needs, saving in the management of this.

The main concern in this type of installation is offer an efficient and fair service to the end customer.

Usually the users of campsites and marinas are not aware of the rational use of electricity, as in many cases they arrive at the assigned pitch and use all kinds of loads without worrying about the electricity consumed, as they pay the same whether they consume a lot or a little. SACI has participated in the energy management of several campsites. with their accountants and management software.

• Remote reading and actuation system via PLC (Power Line Communications)
  Using the existing power line for the intelligent management of your meters. These are simply connected to the low voltage network and are automatically detected by the PLC system management equipment.

Through this system, those responsible for the campsite or marina can remotely read out the initial consumption of a meter assigned to a plot or mooring upon the arrival of a new customer, and enable the electricity supply. This prevents possible fraud by other customers who connect their loads to neighbouring plots. If there is a water meter on the plots with pulse outputs, the value of the water meter can also be read by means of a PLC pulse concentrator.

Once the end customer's stay is over, the installation managers remotely switch off the power supply without the need to travel to the site. The central office charges the cost of energy and water consumed during the stay at the campsite.

In the management of shopping centre facilities, we are faced with various requirements for their operation. The main priority is control operating costs (OPEX) through the energy management of the uses of the installation, creating EnPIs (Energy Performance Indicators).

Through these measurement systems, managers of shopping centres can easy consumption monitoring and comparative benchmarking between uses and centres quickly and easily.

Maintenance must also be taken into account as an essential factor. for operating costs and quality of service for users. These are hidden costs that can have a direct impact on the installation. Untimely tripping of protections, overloading of wiring and power transformers, or poor network quality, are problems that can seriously damage the installation if preventive measures and system monitoring are not established.

A smart building is defined as one that incorporates equipment for tertiary or industrial use, The use of automated technical management systems within their facilities, with the aim of reducing energy consumption, increasing comfort and safety for the whole building. The term applies especially to: office buildings, corporate buildings, hotels and similar.

• Designed to be cost-effective for the implementation of future systems.
  A building is considered «intelligent» if it incorporates information systems throughout the building, offering advanced activity control and telecommunications services. With automated control, monitoring, management and maintenance of the different subsystems or services of the building, in an optimal and integrated way, locally and remotely. Designed with sufficient flexibility to make the implementation of future systems simple and economically profitable.

This new concept defines the integral building automation with high technology. The centralisation of the data of the building or complex makes it possible to comfortably monitor and control from a computer the operating states or alarms of the systems that make up the installation, as well as the main measurement parameters.