Conditioning as a Service
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Project Description
The energy transition, circularity and sustainability are daily topics, not only nowadays but for sure in the future. This concept makes use of the paradigmashift: 'From ownership to usage'. This concept serves the following purpose: 'To put the economic ownership in the right spot of the value chain within the market of climate concepts.'
Geographical Scope
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Urban or rural issues
Physical or other transformations
EU Programme or fund
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Description of the project
Summary
Why? The energy transition, circularity and sustainability are daily topics, not only nowadays but for sure in the future. This concept makes use of the paradigmashift: 'From ownership to usage'. This concept serves the following purpose: 'To put the economic ownership in the right spot of the value chain within the market of climate concepts.'
How? By connecting with different organizations within the value chain of climate concepts, get rid of the traditional revenue model and replace is for a as a service proposition. This will result in long term relationships with our customers
What? Delivering Conditioning / Climate as a service
In this proposition, it is all about putting the economic ownership in the right place. Our 'CaaS' Company (we still need to think of a name) is a cooperation of product suppliers, engineers, installers and control technoloy experts. By joining forces, the value chain gets a shared interest and does not need to earn profit within each chain, in addition to that a company with knowledge and knowhow keeps the economic ownership. Therefore we are able to look over the usage -and lifetime of a climate installation and thrive to optimalise value retention within the climate concepts. This forces us, as a serviceprovider, to think based on other assumptions like:
- Closed material loops;
- Design to reuse;
- Design to optimise performance
- Residual Value;
- Unburdering of customers
- Health
- Long term relationship with customers
The servatization of a climate concept will help certain national sectors such as education, healthcare institutions and housing corporations. This type of organizations have problem making capital expenditure investments. By using a 'as a service' revenue model, there is no investment needed for our clients. This might lower the barrier to improve the indoor climate and therefore could help to accelerate towards the goals regarding the energy transition and circular economy.
Key objectives for sustainability
The first main topic is value retention. A way to achieve this is to close the material loop. Because all suppliers are in house, it is way easier to do. Because the participation of the engineering partner, we are able to design to reuse and therefore generate a detachable climate installation. By forming a company with the different actors within the value chain, it should be easier to calculate and guarantee a residual value. A residual value benefits the business case and is within concept likely to occur. It could open a wider discussion for the residual value of the built environment in general.
Because climate installations are expensive, many sectors / organizations find it difficult to have a healthy indoor climate. Healthy buildings is something we truly apsire. On of our goals is to tackle the Sick Building Syndrome via our climate concepts. It is our goal to create a healthy environment where people feel energized, happy and inspired.
Besides that, we aim to make only use of renewable energy. Due to the service proposition, we create long term relationships with our clients. This comes with the opportunity to create a timepath for a healthy building in general. Our side goal is to accompany our clients towards renewable energy only.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
As said in the summary, one of the main assumptions is to unburden our clients. Instead of being in a producer - customer relationship. We will become partners to our clients. In the end, only together, we can achieve a climate concept that creates a healthy environment with minimal energy consumption and minimal climate impact. In case of a traditional buy-selling example, our client needs to hire workers or knowledge to manage, maintain and update the climate installation. Because of the lack of experience and knowhow, failure cost will occur. Via our concept CaaS, we challenge our clients to minimalise the failure costs. This will have a positive financial impulse for our clients as well that down time is reducted and thus there will be a better performance.
Key objectives for inclusion
As said, our service does not require any investment and therefore is very accessible and affordable for a wide range of organizations. Especially when you compare it to the traditonal model where a client has to buy a installation, maintain it etc..
Because of our diverse pack of partners (product suppliers, engineers, installers and control technology experts) we can design from several perspectives. Co-Desiging is one of our main assumptions.
Physical or other transformations
Innovative character
As said above, the main goal is to achieve a product-service combination with a closed material loop with a minimal CO2 footprint. To ensure this, we will make use of local materials. Therefore our product can be classified as 'healthy'. Besides cooperating with several organisations within the traditional value chain, we will cooperate with our clients to ensure a optimal outcome of the project during the 10-15-20 years. With this proposition we want to be an example for not having to own everything. This shift in mind is needed to accelrate towards a circular economy. Besides that it is a service, which can be included in the operational expenditure costs instead of the capital expenditure costs which makes it way more accesible / affordable.
To answer the question:
We create a circular product, exploit it as a service so it is affordable and the party with knowhow (we) stays the economic owner of the product. Because of that, we are able to optimise it's performance throughout the years which has benefits for us and our clients. Our client has been unburdened, has the healthy indoor climate but does not have to make any investments to achieve this.
