Design of energy plant room
Design and engineering of heat pumps, borehole fields, district heating, free cooling and heat recovery. Norway’s leading experts in energy plant room design.
The energy plant room is the heart of a sustainable building. If it’s designed poorly, the building pays for it for forty years. We design energy plant rooms that are simple enough to be well operated, and flexible enough to handle changes in use and in energy markets.
Technologies
- Heat pumps: ground-source, seawater, air-to-water, cascade systems
- Borehole fields: sizing, balance between extraction and storage
- District heating and district cooling integrated with on-site generation
- Free cooling from borehole fields, seawater or dry coolers
- Heat recovery from internal processes, refrigeration, data centres and exhaust air
Our role
- Concept selection and preliminary design with life-cycle costing (LCC)
- Detailed design including heating plant, cooling plant and controls
- Tender documentation and contractor evaluation
- Construction follow-up and support during balancing/commissioning
- Commissioning, functional testing and handover
What sets us apart
- Experience from over a hundred energy plant rooms at various scales
- Close collaboration with building automation — control sequences are not an afterthought
- Designed for operation, not the drawing board: we are on site when the system is brought online
We are happy to take responsibility for the whole delivery, or to join as a specialist resource alongside the general RIV design team.