You should know that today buildings represent nearly 40% of energy consumed in France and are also responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. This imposes real awareness of the building sector's role in global warming and its consequences: heat waves, earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes etc.
Decrees have thus been voted and are the result of a need for significant change in controlling consumption generated by tertiary buildings: the tertiary decree and the BACS decree.
These two decrees emphasize the central role of BMS integration in tertiary buildings to comply with resulting obligations.
What is the BACS decree?
The BACS decree, unlike the tertiary decree, doesn't define objectives to achieve but rather corresponds to a monitoring obligation.
It plans to equip tertiary buildings with automation and control systems, more commonly called BMS, by January 1, 2025. For new buildings, the obligation applies to building permits filed from July 21, 2021.
The buildings concerned are equipped with a heating system and/or air conditioning system, combined or not with a ventilation system, whose nominal power exceeds 290 kW. The BMS requirement level is high since the decree requires installing a class A or B BMS according to EN 15232 standard.
What is the Tertiary Decree?
The tertiary decree specifies implementation modalities of article 175 of the ELAN law relating to reducing energy consumption of tertiary buildings.
The buildings concerned are those where tertiary activities are exercised with an area greater than 1000m2. The decree provides for building energy consumption reduction of 40% for 2030, 50% for 2040 and 60% for 2050 compared to consumption over a reference year that cannot be prior to 2010.
To achieve these objectives, subjects must implement all necessary actions around 4 axes:
What is BMS's role in applying BACS and Tertiary Decrees?
It's certain that BMS deployment will accelerate in coming years because on one hand, they're required by the BACS decree and on the other hand, they play a key role in better building monitoring and control to help managers comply with tertiary decree obligations.
Following curves and analyzing data aren't sufficient to achieve objectives established by the tertiary decree. It's now about taking control to manage equipment and regulate their energy consumption.
Our advice: A Building Technical Management system accompanied by an intelligent control solution including an energy efficiency application will enable buildings to achieve energy saving objectives more quickly. Indeed, these solutions guarantee reduction in energy bill costs by allowing both monitoring consumption of a building portfolio and implementing specific actions to reduce it. Furthermore, this complete solution will easily enable data collection for CSR reporting purposes.
The BMS market is evolving with the arrival of next-generation BMS that democratize this market segment through using technologies from the IoT world. It's about installing more efficient and interoperable BMS with all existing equipment with faster returns on investment than other actions intended to reduce building consumption like building envelope renovation.
The +: How to finance your BMS?
The CEE sheet allows you to finance part of your investment for integrating a class A or B Building Management System. To learn more: Link
Want to know more? A question or project idea?
Sensinov offers you to apply your own strategy to your buildings. Our solutions meet the challenges of openness, interoperability and are 100% in line with new standards (R2S Label, BACS decree, tertiary decree). Sensinov's intelligent control solution supports building professionals in their daily activities on several subjects including Hypervision and building supervision, equipment control and energy consumption optimization.
