Calculate the energy savings of the automatic doors in your premises

Energy efficiency is an essential pillar in any building. Optimising electricity consumption contributes to reducing the ecological footprint and improving air quality. In a retail or public space, the main entrance should be easy for anyone to enter. Traditional doors can make accessibility difficult for people with reduced mobility or people carrying loads, and keeping them open all the time to facilitate access is a waste of energy. In this context, automatic doors, with a high opening and closing speed, are the ideal solution: they stay open only when necessary and help to keep the interior temperature stable.

All Manusa models are designed to maintain the energy efficiency of your spaces. Automatic sliding and swing doors, due to their versatility, reduce air conditioning losses in many environments, adapting to the particularities of each space. In busy outdoor access, such as airports or shopping centres, automatic revolving doors provide stability in internal air conditioning without interrupting the high flow of people. In addition, some models, such as hermetic sliding doors, further guarantee the maintenance of environmental conditions in demanding facilities such as hospitals. But have you ever wondered what energy savings automatic doors can bring to your premises?

Manusa Energy Calculator

To help you assess the impact of the doors on the energy consumption of your premises or if you are considering installing them in your accesses, Manusa offers you the energy-saving calculator. This tool allows you to simulate how much you can save by reducing the energy consumption with the installation of automatic doors, according to some simple parameters, and the particularities of each access.

As the climate varies according to the geographical area and therefore also the air-conditioning state of the premises, the calculator allows you to choose the country and city of the building. For greater accuracy, you can indicate the average outdoor temperature in winter (broadly considered as the eight coldest or warmest months of the year) and in summer (the four warmest months).

Then, you should indicate the environmental particularities of the space, such as the number of hours the premises are open to the public and the internal temperature in the cold and warm seasons. You are also asked to estimate the number of door openings per day. To do so, you should estimate the number of people visiting your premises and multiply it by two, as they will also leave the premises.

Finally, the calculator asks you for the dimensions of the door space, since the larger the surface area, the more air exchange can take place during opening. Once you have entered all these parameters, the calculator returns the percentage of savings compared to having the door always open, and shows it to you in a visual and easy-to-understand way. This tool can help you decide on the installation of automatic doors in your premises or to get an idea of what it would mean to keep the doors always open.

Last: remember that to install doors strategically to optimise the energy efficiency of your spaces, at Manusa we have a 360º service with which we advise and accompany you. We do this throughout the entire process: from design and planning, through installation, to maintenance. The latter is key to preventing possible breakdowns that may affect your energy consumption.