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Future-Proofing Buildings with Sustainable HVAC Solutions
This CPD explores how AET’s underfloor air conditioning (UfAC) supports more sustainable, flexible, and cost-efficient buildings across refurbishment and new-build projects. UfAC systems deliver measurable performance benefits, including 3–19% total savings, with up to 18% reductions in operational energy, 9–16% savings in upfront carbon, and up to 20% reductions in whole-life embodied carbon, depending on project configuration. For refurbishments, reduced service zone requirements help increase usable headroom and unlock value in constrained buildings. In new builds, slimmer slab-to-slab heights can reduce superstructure costs — delivering circa £1.7m in upfront savings on a typical 10-storey building, a 14% height reduction, or the potential to add an extra floor within the same overall height.
By moving services to the floor and using modular, reconfigurable components, UfAC enables long-term adaptability, reduced waste, and improved whole-life performance — supporting sustainable design from day one and well into the future.