Display Energy Certificates will, in due course, show the current energy performance of a building and how it has changed over the previous two years.
The new age of Energy Certificates for Buildings
Published: February 2008
Do you know your EPCs from your DECs? John Fallon unravels the jargon and outlines the two new types of certificates, when they apply and their significance.
Effective control of natural ventilation is provided by Passivent’s enhanced digital control range.
Sophisticated control for natural ventilation
Published: February 2008
A method of controlling natural air movement to ventilate buildings is recognised by the Energy Technology and, therefore, qualifies for Enhanced Capital Allowances.
Display Energy Certificates for buildings are intended to stimulate reductions in their energy consumption. Lisa Wilkinson discusses the role of monitoring an targeting to improve the operational rating of buildings.
The skills for delivering Energy Performance Certificates — Hywel Davies.
Delivering Energy Performance Certificates for buildings
Published: February 2008
Energy Performance Certificates for Buildings will not just happen from April. Hywel Davies explains how readers of Modern Building Services can become involved in assessing the energy performance of buildings and issuing certificates.
Guidance on building energy ratings can be downloaded from the web site of Mitsubishi Electric.
Shape up to energy ratings of buildings with free guide
Published: February 2008
To help those involve in the industry to find their way around the building-certification process and likely future legislation, environmental-control specialist Mitsubishi Electric has produced a free, independent guide to Building Energy Ratings.
Ground-source heat pumps provide both heating and cooling for the headquarters of Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Ground-source heating and cooling helps achieve BREEAM excellent rating
Published: February 2008
Underfloor heating and cooling, combined with ground-source heat pumps, are reducing energy consumption and carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 to 40% for the new £18 million headquarters of Gloucestershire Constabulary. This sustainable solution played a key role in this PFI project receiving a BREEAM excellent rating.
Following the installation of two ABB variable-speed drives, Castlegate Business Park in Monmouthshire has reduced the running costs of its air-handling unit by over 70%
Variable-speed drives slash running costs of AHU
Published: February 2008
Since the installation of two ABB variable-speed drives at a block of managed business premises in Monmouthshire, the running cost of the air-handling unit has been reduced by over 70%. Costs have been reduced by over £6000 a year, and carbon-dioxide emissions reduced by 12 t a year.
Advanced solar collection — Vaillant’s VFK 990 flat-plate collector.
Vaillant launches a new flat-plate solar collector
Published: February 2008
Vaillant’s new auroTHERM plus VFK 990 flat-plate solar collectors can be connected in series in horizontal or vertical orientation to suit the available roof space. These collectors have a special anti-reflex coated toughened 4 mm-thick glass. The collector consists of an ultrasonically welded copper grid with a high selective absorber coating and 60 mm of rear and side insulation.
Providing ventilation only when it is needed and at the required level is one of the keys to reducing the energy consumption of a building. Vent-Axia’s Sentinel system, for example, can be controlled by a building-management system to provide the right level of supply or extract only when required.
The role of energy-efficient ventilation
Published: February 2008
With buildings generating almost half of the UK’s carbon emissions, building services consultants have a unique role in both creating and assessing a low-carbon environment. Nygel Humphrey explains how energy-efficient ventilation can contribute to this vision.
Simply replacing two cast-iron boilers with MHS condensing boilers has reduced energy consumption at this golf and country club in Cornwall by 16%
Country club has energy efficiency down to a tee
Published: February 2008
Replacing two old cast-iron boilers with two Ultramax 381 gas-fired condensing boilers from MHS has reduced energy costs for a private golf and country club in Cornwall by 16%. The payback period for the China Fleet Country Club will be within 3.5 years.
Hoval has joined the market for solar hot water with its SolKit range.
Hoval moves into the solar hot water business
Published: February 2008
Hoval’s SolKit is a highly efficient solar system for generating domestic hot water for commercial and residential applications. It comprises solar collectors with bracketry and flashing kits for on pitched roof, in-pitched roof, on flat roof or on the wall. The system also includes a stainless-steel cylinder, sophisticated plug-and-play digital-control system, pre-mixed heat-transfer fluid and all connections.
In the light of media fears of recession and a credit cruch, do you think this will impact upon the Building-Services industry over the next two years?
