Energy plant room design
Engineering and design of heat pumps, borehole fields, district heating, free cooling and heat recovery. Experienced Norwegian specialists in energy plant room design.
The energy plant room is the heart of a sustainable building. If it is designed poorly, the building pays for it for forty years. We design energy plant rooms that are simple to operate and flexible enough to handle changes in use and the energy market.
Technologies
- Heat pumps: ground-source, seawater, air-to-water, cascade
- Borehole fields: sizing, balancing extraction and storage
- District heating and district cooling integrated with on-site production
- Free cooling from borehole fields, seawater or dry coolers
- Heat recovery from internal processes, cooling systems, data centres and exhaust air
Our role
- Concept selection and preliminary design with life-cycle costs (LCC)
- Detailed design of heating and cooling plants and control systems
- Tender documents and contractor evaluation
- Follow-up during construction and system balancing
- Start-up, functional testing and handover
What sets us apart
- Experience from over one hundred energy plant rooms at various scales
- Close collaboration with controls engineering — control sequences are not drawn up afterwards
- Designed for operation, not the drawing board: we are on site when the plant is commissioned
We can take responsibility for the full delivery, or act as a specialist resource alongside the general RIV designer.
Questions and answers
Which technologies do you design?
Heat pumps (ground-source, seawater, air-to-water, cascade), borehole fields, district heating and cooling, free cooling, and heat recovery from processes, cooling systems, data centres and exhaust air — usually combined rather than a single technology.
How do you choose between heat pump, borehole field and district heating?
The choice follows the building's measured or modelled load profile, the available heat sources and space, the carbon and taxonomy ambitions, and life-cycle cost — not just the lowest install price.
Why do so many plant rooms underperform in operation?
Because control sequences are drawn up after the fact and no one is on site at commissioning. We engineer control logic upfront and are present when the plant is started and balanced.
How much can a good plant room save?
A well-designed energy plant room delivers 40–70% lower energy use than an average solution. The difference lies in the interaction between components, not the components themselves.