Even when a building is already in use, many specification decisions have an ongoing impact on sustainability performance and energy management. The choice of access solution is one which can contribute to an overall sustainability strategy. It can have a bigger impact than you imagine, as we explain below.
From doors and door closers to complete digital access solutions, ASSA ABLOY manufactures and supplies products for almost any building or opening. This range gives us uniquely broad-based knowledge about standards and certifications.
Our locally based specification experts can assist customers in choosing solutions that reduce energy use, such as door products to improve the thermal efficiency of indoor spaces.
According to a recent survey of 4,000 professionals, demand for green building certification is growing rapidly among decision-makers in the built environment space. ASSA ABLOY’s access experts can provide in-depth support for architects and developers seeking accreditation in any of six leading green building certifications: BREEAM, LEED, Green Star, WELL, DGNB, HQE.
Specifiers can be confident that ASSA ABLOY devices benefit from ongoing supply-chain innovations which specifically target reducing embodied carbon.
In Poland, for example, Torus aims for the highest level of LEED certification for all their developments in the Gdansk area. They choose products with Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and Green Circle documentation wherever possible, favouring access solutions that reduce both carbon footprint and energy costs.
ASSA ABLOY provided expertise through their Polish BIM and specification team with local presence and knowledge. They supplied products which are manufactured to eco-design principles to help reduce ongoing energy use.
Robust, reliable, battery powered Aperio digital devices that secure doors consume much less energy than comparable wired solutions. Deployed alongside them, HID Signo door readers have an Intelligent Power Mode (IPM) which saves 41% in energy compared to equivalent readers without IPM configuration.
«Collaborating with ASSA ABLOY equipped Torus developments with innovative solutions which improve buildings’ energy performance», explains Alicja Leszczynska, Specification Manager Poland at ASSA ABLOY.
Detailed, product-specific EPDs highlight the concrete benefits delivered by ASSA ABLOY’s investments in using products with integrated eco-design and sustainability principles from the material choice to the operations and how the product is delivered to our customers.
An EPD will deliver key information around the carbon footprint of the product once it becomes part of the building. The carbon footprint of the building is what the European Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) will require once it is implemented from 2027 to all new buildings and gradually to all renovated buildings too