With regards to the selection and planning of energetic and technical building equipment MOVE-energy takes into consideration:

• the equipment's complete life cycle, the energy needed to manufacture it, and the energy required for the building alterations,
• the energy consumption and the operating costs of the equipment.

MOVE-energy weighs up the energy balance of the change cycles against the hidden energy effort contained in a system. This allows for highly flexible components containing a greater aggregation effort to be in direct comparison with less flexible components containing less aggregation effort.

In contrast with standard methods MOVE-energy also considers the costs for alterations up to the final demolition. This aspect is of great importance as the average building undergoes about six to eight alterations during its life cycle.

During a building alteration the main lines supplying power, heat, air conditioning, gases and liquids are usually removed and disposed of, and at best they are recycled. Recycling of small-volume parts consisting of heterogeneous materials, as is the case in most electrical materials, requires a great deal of energy in order to separate the materials.

These parts are constructed and manufactured without taking into account possible building alterations in the future.

We design energy supply lines and energy conversion systems (heating, cooling, ventilation) in consideration of the expected time of usage in a building and the alteration effort of the facility. All systems are checked by an extensive and separate efficiency audit.
The MOVE-energy concept differentiates three categories:

• basic supply systems
• individual and respectively elementary utility systems
• energy conversion systems

According to these categories MOVE-energy components are adjusted to meet the demands with regards to flexibility, life cycle and expected time of usage in a building.