This service focuses on four areas:

Urban Planning

In the building sector, reducing the impact associated with energy consumption requires the introduction of energy as an across the board element beginning in the urban planning phase, as it conditions any further intervention in this direction. Working from this phase of the design process, it will be possible to optimize networks, densities, heights, uses or constructive typologies, reducing the total energetic demands for the neighbourhood to required and economically viable limits or even generating different scenarios. Similarly, from the previous scenarios of energetic demand, we can simulate the behaviour of different energy system solutions with varying degrees of centralization and technologies, identifying energy efficiency and cost of each set of actions and each package solution.

Construction

At the level of detail involved in building design, the energy consultancy of AIGUASOL integrates naturally within any multi-disciplinary design team. The partnership extends from the conception to the executive project, bringing general ideas about location, shape or orientation of the building to the optimum dimensions of the air-conditioning systems or the design of constructive solutions. Avoiding clichés and with the utmost scientific rigor, using the most advanced tools and in close collaboration with the architects, we produce buildings that have  the best climate control and natural lighting, with minimum energy consumption, lower peak power, and often low investment costs. The tools used for these services range from dynamic simulation with TRNSYS and TRNFLOW up to CFD analysis, doing natural lighting simulation with RADIANCE as well as any other specific software that is necessary.

Industry

In the design and optimization of industrial processes AIGUASOL provides a comprehensive as well as detailed view that optimizes energy production and distribution systems, integrates processes through Pinch-Point analysis, even on a dynamic level, or a combination of sources and forms of energy, always finding the optimal combination and design, as well as the most profitable investment for the client. Proposals for measures are conducted on detailed process or assembly models, including process integration, coupled with renewable energies or control strategies.

Generation

Efficient renewable or conventional energy generation, whether by heat, cold or electricity cogeneration or tri-generation, is one of the most important fields of action in energy consultancy today. The market growth in renewable generation with  hybridized sources such as solar-thermoelectric and biomass, or poly-generation systems, which can include multiple sources and technologies to capture and transform energy, often with complex regulations, requires the knowledge and tools that AIGUASOL offers to its customers.