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NEW CEO
Ziehl-Abegg
has appointed
Dr. Marc Wucherer as its new CEO.
He will take up his new position this month.
A doctor of engineering with
a degree in business administration, Wucherer, will replace Peter Fenkl,
who left Ziehl-Abegg at the end of May.
Wucherer has been on the board of directors of drive and control technology company Bosch Rexroth since 2017,
He began his career at Siemens.
ABOVE: Dr. Marc Wucherer, CEO, Ziehl Abegg
Building emissions hit all time high
CO2 EMISSIONS FROM buildings and con- struction have hit a new high, which means the sector is unlikely to decarbonise by 2050, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
In 2021, investments in building energy effi- ciency increased by 16 per cent to $US237 bil-
rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic to an all-time high, a new UNEP report said.
Released at the latest round of climate talks in Egypt, COP27, the 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction finds that the sector accounted for over 34 per cent of energy demand and around 37 per cent of energy and process-related CO2 emissions in 2021.
This, according to the report from the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), means that the gap between the climate per- formance of the sector and the 2050 decarbonisation pathway is widening. Executive director of UNEP, Inger Andersen, said years of
LEFT: Executive director of UNEP, Inger Andersen.
warnings about the impacts of climate change have become a reality.
“If we do not rapidly cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, we will be in deeper trouble,” he said.
Decarbonising the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these cuts. To reduce overall emissions, the sector must improve building energy performance, decrease build- ing materials’ carbon footprint, multiply policy commitments alongside action and increase investment in energy efficiency.
Key global trends covered in the report show energy intensity in kilowatts per hour per square metre slightly decreased, from 153 in 2015 to 152 in 2021.
Global progress on buildings and construc- tion policies and action remains slow with raw resource use set to double by 2060.
lion, but growth in floor space efficiency efforts.
The sector’s 2021 operational energy-related CO2 emissions were up five per cent over 2020 and two per cent over the pre-pandemic peak in 2019.
Despite an increase in energy efficiency investment and lower energy intensity, the building and construction sector’s energy con- sumption and CO2 emissions have
outpaced
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Booming market for heat pump fans
FAN MANUFACTURER ZIEHL- ABEGG WILL INVEST SOME
50 MILLION EUROS ($A77.2 MILLION) IN NEW PRODUCTION FACILITIES IN LODZ, POLAND.
ZIEHL-ABEGG CHIEF OPERATING officer, Joachim Ley, said megatrends such as digitalisa- tion, climate change and urbanisation are lead- ing to a growth in demand and call for a significant increase in the company’s produc- tion capacities.
The construction of the building in the south- east of Lodz will be completed within nine months. Production is intended to start in Autumn 2023.
Machinery and equipment will be installed on a step by step basis in the 17,000 square metres of space in the building.
LEFT: Production at the factory will commence in late 2023.
“We are building up the production facilities on a gradual basis,” Ley said.
“There are plans to create 300 to 400 new jobs within five years.
“In view of rising energy prices, the use of heat pumps will enjoy an unprecedented boom, espe- cially in Europe.”
Ziehl-Abegg managing director for Poland, Adam Korzybski, said he has been working in the Sales Department for energy-saving fans since 1997.16 employees are currently working at Ziehl-Abegg Poland serving customers of the global fan manufacturer in Latvia and Lithuania.
“We are the technology leader in fans which have been optimised with the help of biomimet- ics,” Korzybski said.
“This special fan design reduces noise and consequently enables heat pumps to be oper- ated in densely built-up areas.
“In the future, smaller fans, which up to now have been imported into Europe from Asia, will also be built in Lodz. These fans are used for home ventilation or in cooling for electronics and refrigeration technology.”
Ziehl-Abegg chief operating officer, Joachim Ley.
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