4. The Ekonod Advantage

Ekonod’s installation hub weighs up to three times less.

This reduces:

• Structural load
• Crane time
• Handling effort
• Installation complexity
• Limitations in timber and lightweight structures

Lighter means faster, easier and more flexible.

Most buildings lose 20 to 30 percent of hot-water energy in circulation loops.

Ekonod removes these losses entirely and adds:

• • optional spillwater heat recovery (50 to 75 percent savings)
  • extremely short pipe runs
  • best-in-class hot-water energy levels (around 3 kWh per m² and year)
  • lower pump energy and reduced system losses

The result is radically lower operating cost and CO₂ footprint.

Wet rooms are one of the biggest risk points in residential buildings.

Ekonod eliminates this through:

• • factory-assembled moisture-protected cores
  • integrated waterproofing
  • built-in leak detection
  • automatic shut-off valves
  • floor-level moisture sensors
  • a controlled on-site installation sequence

This reduces long-term insurance claims dramatically.

Developers, contractors and municipalities want the same thing:
timelines and costs they can trust.

Ekonod provides it with:

• industrialised factory production
• predefined components
• testable performance
• repeatable system logic
• less dependency on scarce skilled labour
• fewer trades competing for space
• a calmer, cleaner installation environment
• standardised plug and play electrical connections that reduce site dependency and commissioning risk

Predictability creates value at every stage.

Ekonod integrates:

• Matter and Modbus
• Smart metering
• AI diagnostics
• Tenant-level billing
• Energy-as-a-service potential
• Real-time performance monitoring

Buildings become smarter over time instead of outdated on day one.

Ekonod enables:

• Verifiable CO₂ reductions
• Energy data from day one
• BREEAM and ESG alignment
• Circular logic in materials and processes
• Lower embodied carbon due to lightweight systems

This supports green loans, sustainability-linked financing and municipal climate requirements.

Traditional systems create building-wide vulnerability.

Ekonod localises risk so that:

• • faults stay within one apartment
  • automatic shut-off contains leaks
  • building-wide shutdowns are avoided
  • service is fast and predictable
  • OPEX stays stable across decades

Resilience is built into the architecture.

Because the hub is pre-engineered and pre-costed:

• installation costs are predictable early
• tenders stabilise
• This includes electrical systems, where predefined layouts, connections and loads reduce uncertainty and eliminate late cost escalation.
• fewer change orders occur
• financial risk decreases
• long-term ROI becomes transparent

Developers protect their margins.
Investors gain a more financeable, lower-risk asset.

Traditional systems create risk, complexity and waste.
Ekonod replaces them with a lighter, smarter, greener and more profitable system that meets the next decade of regulation and market demand.

Contact us to find out more.

Read the full report “The Ekonod Advantage” in PDF and watch the introductory film