Cosiness & comfort: What is component activation?
Scorching heat in summer and freezing cold in winter. How can you ensure comfortable temperatures in both directions at home? Building component activation, also known as "ceiling cooling" for short, makes it possible. But how does thermal component activation work, what types are there and what advantages does it offer?
New home, new happiness. But when it comes to keeping your toes warm and your head cool, nothing should be left to chance. After all, the right temperatures in summer and winter not only determine how comfortable you feel at home. Heating and cooling consume the lion's share of energy costs within your own four walls. So if you want to avoid breaking out in a sweat when you look at your electricity and gas bill, you should pay attention to the energy efficiency of your new home. A good alternative to sweating and shivering in the cold: a well thought-out heating/cooling system, for example in combination with thermal component activation. But what is it all about?
Glor-ious tip When buying or renting a new property, you should take a close look at the energy performance certificate. This will not only give you a good estimate of the energy costs you should expect. The energy performance certificate also provides information about the energy efficiency of a property. Read more about this in the article "Reading and understanding the energy certificate". |
How does component activation work?
With thermal component activation, pipe systems are embedded in certain components such as ceilings, walls or floors. The most common variant is installation in ceilings, which is why this form of cooling is also known as ceiling cooling. In this way, liquids can be channelled through the pipes and heated or cooled at the same time. Concrete also has the excellent property of storing desired temperatures for longer, thus ensuring an exceptionally pleasant indoor climate in the long term.
In Glor-Text! In thermal component activation, pipe systems are embedded in building components such as walls and ceilings in order to heat or cool liquids. This ensures energy-efficient heating or cooling. Curious to find out more? Let our Glorit experts advise you. |
Cool thing: ceiling cooling
One example of thermal component activation is ceiling cooling, which cools the room from above thanks to thermal component activation. Unlike an air conditioning system, this does not create a cold draught, but a constant gentle cooling without removing moisture from the room, which ensures a particularly cosy living climate. At the same time, in times of increasingly hot summer days, ceiling cooling is a more cost-effective option for cooling interiors than air conditioning systems.
Good to know! Many Glorit apartments offer ceiling cooling for pleasant temperatures on hot days. Our waterfront projects in particular score highly with these innovative cooling systems. See for yourself! |
Thermal component activation: What makes it so energy-efficient?
The water that is channelled through the pipe systems of walls and ceilings can be heated or cooled. The concrete itself plays a special role here, as it scores with its particularly high material density. As a result, temperatures can be stored excellently and rooms can be heated or cooled evenly.
This temperature change naturally requires energy, which can be obtained from various sources such as photovoltaics, district heating or solar energy.
Short info Concrete has a high material density and can therefore store heat or cold well and release it evenly. |
Hot combination: air-to-water heat pump and ceiling cooling
Glorit apartments use a wide variety of heat pumps. Incidentally, most heat pump systems also ensure pleasantly cool temperatures in summer via the underfloor heating, as it is often possible to cool via the actual heating in reverse mode.
In Glorit houses, all rooms - even the basement - are equipped with modern underfloor heating, which is supplied with energy by whisper-quiet Stiebel Eltron air-to-water heat pumps. In most cases, this does not even require an outdoor unit. And: in summer, the heat pump can be "reversed" and cooled via the underfloor heating. A cool thing!
