Eurovent announces new recommendation on AHU life cycle cost

BRUSSELS, Belgium, 23 April 2024:  Eurovent announced the release of an industry recommendation that provides a methodology to calculate life cycle energy consumption and costs of Air-handling units. Making the announcement through a Press release, Eurovent said, it aims to support the environmental impact assessment of AHUs.

Euorvent said that the ‘Eurovent Recommendation 6/19: Life cycle cost calculation for AHUs’ defines a standardised methodology for calculating the energy demand and the resulting life cycle costs (LCC) of air handling units to estimate the total costs of ownership of the unit over its lifetime. Since the energy demand of an AHU normally has a major impact on the overall environmental impact, Eurovent said, this publication can be seen as a very important step forward to ensure harmonised procedures to assess the product environmental footprint of AHUs. Furthermore, Euorvent said, the calculation rules defined in Eurovent 6/19 are based on scientific basics and available standards, where available, related to the performance of components in AHUs, including their characteristics in part load operation.

Martin Lenz, Chairperson, PG-AHU, said: “We are convinced that this new recommendation has significant importance to achieve a harmonised European procedure for AHU life cycle assessment. Furthermore, the methodology allows selecting the perfectly fitting AHU for each application based on environmental and economic aspects (total costs of ownership). It makes me proud that we were able to develop this very helpful method and recommendation with so many European experts from the Eurovent network.”

Eurovent said this document was developed jointly by participants of the Special Project ‘Air Handling Units 2030’ (SP-AHU1). The document can be downloaded free of charge in the Eurovent Document Library.