Vollmer Engineering

Company structure

Ingenieurbüro Dr. Vollmer was set up in 1994 in Germany as a building services engineering consultancy specialising in the use of renewable energies and in implementing energy efficient measures.

In 2006, the company set up its first international consultancy office (PER, Process Energies Renouvelables) in Strasbourg, France. This was joined in 2007 by the UK consultancy office Vollmer Engineering Ltd in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Since its establishment in 1994, the group of companies has successfully completed around 120 projects, up to € 2m in value. The projects have shown an even split between feasibility studies for renewable-energy systems and the design and installation of systems.

Our main customers are local authorities, small to medium-sized manufacturing businesses, and commercial customers requiring office heating or cooling systems.

Advice

• compare the cost-effectiveness of different energy sources
• recommend ways of saving energy in buildings
• investigate the feasibility of using renewable energy sources for a particular situation

Our customers rely on our technical competence and impartiality. Due to our open-minded approach, we are able to see the hidden potential of situations and suggest practical and cost-effective solutions to problems.

Planning and project management

Many of our customers turn to us for the detailed planning and site supervision of building-services installations, often resulting directly from feasibility studies. Our main planning contracts have been in the following areas.

• Heating installations using biomass, for example wood chips, wood pellets or Miscanthus. Many installations incorporate district heating systems, in which several buildings are connected to a heating network supplied from a single biomass boiler. The system designs are tailored to the fuels available as a matter of course. This allows us to use ‘difficult’ materials, such as wet wood, bark, saw dust or bulky materials.
• Heating and cooling of buildings using geothermal heat, in which heat is exchanged with the ground through horizontal or vertical heat exchangers.
• Office cooling using radiant ceiling panels.
• Other renewable energy systems using solar PV, solar thermal and wind energy.

Our broad knowledge of building services engineering (renewable or conventional) allows us to ensure that all new services are tightly integrated with existing systems.