Renovation of the heating system and entrance of the primary school Judenburg-Stadt
Judenburg, Austria
The Volksschule Stadt consists of a historical school building, the former girls and boys school. This was extended in the 1980’s with the addition of a gym-hall, which also resulted in a beautiful assembly hall.
The school building was heated with a night storage heating system in the last decades. This was not optimally controllable in terms of comfort, resulting in different temperatures in the classrooms.
In 2019, the Stadtwerke Judenburg AG - a 100% subsidiary of the municipality of Judenburg - installed a new heating system with radiators and connected the building to the towns's district heating system, which is fed with CO2-neutral heat from waste heat from the Pöls pulp and paper mill. This is an innovative PPP-model between the town and the ESCO, without high initial investment costs for the town.
In addition, the main entrance was moved back to the original entrance on the street side and made barrier-free.
Benefits
The old night storage heaters offered little comfort when heating, they were also difficult to regulate.
The new heating system is equipped with a modern smart heating control system and offers the highest comfort. The temperature can be adjusted very well to the demand.
The district heating comes from the pulp and paper factory in Pöls. It is fed with waste heat from biomass and thus very climate friendly and CO2-neutral.