Sustainability in relation to CO2 emissions is on everyone's lips in Germany,
society and politics talk about it a lot.
When talking about it, most people mention planes and cars,
but forget that about 38% of all CO2 emissions in Germany
are caused by the operation of buildings.
For this reason, I firmly believe
that it should have a much higher relevance in society.
In the field of new buildings, the standard in Germany is already very high today
and for me personally, the focus is on sustainable operation.
We work with ROM in many different areas,
from planning to execution and implementation.
There are many possibilities for cooperation.
ROM Technik was acquired by the Zech Group in 2015,
but is actually a company that is about 160 years old, founded in Hamburg in 1858.
It has always been a pioneer in technical building equipment.
We realise sustainable total solutions for the customer
with know-how and future-oriented technology.
The research and development laboratory is unique in the industry in Germany
I think even in Europe.
We have all the possibilities here to carry out ventilation,
heating and cooling experiments.
What we can do here in the trial,
we can do in the laboratory and also on the computer.
This means that we can simulate buildings and facilities
hour by hour, throughout the whole year,
or even complex flow simulations in buildings.
For that purpose we have our in-house mainframe computer.
BIM stands for Building Information Modelling and is a working method
that is intended to make planning content more transparent
and reliable for all those involved.
The advantage for us is better cooperation,
for the customer it means cost and deadline security.
We always look at the requirement from the practical benefit of the assembly,
i.e. over the entire process backwards, from the goal to the planning.
In building automation,
the networking and automatic use of sensor data is very important.
The use of e-learning for system control and maintenance will also be of great benefit.
It is important that all information is included on the objects
and a good relationship of geometry in the part is of significant benefit
to all parties involved.
By using QR codes, we want to link the information from the internal model
and make it available to logistics.
We have just implemented the development of this technology
in the Hammerbrooklyn Factory,
where we have just made the building smart with sensor technology
and can then control the building in a very energy-efficient manner.
We have proven here in the simulation that you can save up to 30% energy
compared to a conventionally controlled building.
For us, “E4” stands for "Energy Efficiency to the power of 4",
which is our response to the market for making buildings better.
Of course, customers ask us how we can help them to implement energy efficiency
this starts with energetic inspections
and continues with energetic simulations if necessary.
Then we can also carry out energy audits
and it ends with the subject of energy monitoring in order to visualise
whether a building also offers the energy efficiency that it needs.
You can improve building operation, you can save energy, and also save costs,
but you can also save on CO2 emissions.
That's also what we want in today's society and what our big goal is.
The digital caretaker is our working term
for our service product ROM Building Connect.
Buildings are becoming more and more digital,
systems and components are networked and communicate with each other
and generate a great deal of data.
And we want to make this data available via ROM Building Connect,
i.e. via the digital caretaker, and work with it.
In the future we will use this data that a building provides much more
for all kinds of things:
for visualisation, for reporting, for discussions with customers.
It is simply more important to raise the building standard,
i.e. to renovate it, to use efficient technology,
and in the future, extremely important for me, to operate it sustainably.
This means we also have to ensure
that the buildings are operated on a very high standard
in order to reduce emissions.
From my point of view, there are various challenges
when it comes to climate-friendly construction.
One is, of course, that the object is appropriately insulated from the outside
so that heat does not escape and no heat enters.
The other thing, of course, is building automation.
From my point of view, what comes next
is that the objects should not only be consumers later on,
but also producers of energy.
There are, too, possibilities in the cooperation with ROM
to use things, such as a photovoltaic system,
in order to be active in this area as well.
What I appreciate about working with ROM is that it is a partnership,
and that's exactly why I would recommend it.
Completely digital, and in that respect it was a very exciting thing
and I'm glad that we were able to implement it here in the pavilion together with ROM.