Turning it green... 🌱 Many people at Hansgrohe are driving sustainability within the company. One of them is Timo Bok, Head of Building Engineering: All Hansgrohe locations should strive to be free of fossil fuels. Timo Bok is currently developing a concept for this vision. “I’m always thinking about sustainability,” he says. The 46-year-old has been proving this for ten years at Hansgrohe, such as when working on our new faucet production facility in Valjevo, Serbia: “It’s negative 20 Celsius there in the winter and over 40 Celsius in the summer. The aim was to avoid high energy consumption for heating and air conditioning.” The solution of a photovoltaic system, 26 centimeters of roof insulation, a combined heat and power unit and triple-glazed windows led to grateful employees on site – and LEED* certification. Bok has even more ideas, such as using process heat from plastic injection molding and hydrogen as alternative energy sources, as well as designing buildings with a focus on biodiversity. And photovoltaics? “We’ll soon have them on almost every roof,” he says. #InTouchWithOurPlanet --------------------------------------------------- * Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a rating system for ecological building that was developed in 1998 by the U.S. Green Building Council
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