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Project: Scott Street, Perth Details: This development of two city blocks providing sheltered and general needs housing includes community heating with CHP from central plant all designed and specified by enconsult. The project has proved a great success with substantial savings in energy costs for the tenants.  Project: Glenalmond Street, Glasgow Details: This development of sustainably designed flats and houses incorporates recycled materials and very high insulation standards. Heating is provided by a hybrid solar / geothermal system drawing heat from the flooded mineworkings below the site. This is probably the lowest energy cost housing in UK with a monitored average annual heating and hot water cost of £105.  Project: Ochil View, Lumphinnans Details: The refurbishment of former SSHA flats into modern energy-efficient homes included insulating overcladding, passive solar sun spaces and solar clothes drying cabinets. Community Heating to the development is provided by geothermal heat pumps with facilities laid in to connect the next block at a later date.
Project: Wilson Street, Peterhead Details: This is one of a series of projects designed by enconsult for Grampian HA to permit their tenants to take advantage of the much-reduced energy costs associated with Community Heating. A simple system of boilers and pipework connects each dwelling to the central boilers thus removing all gas servicing needs and risks from within the dwellings.
Project: Station Road, Newmachar Details: This project demonstrates that even small-scale developments can take advantage of the benefits of community heating with CHP. The small building in the foreground of the photo contains all of the central plant that provides low cost heating and electricity to the residents.
Project: Leitch Street, Greenock Details: A larger scale development of nearly a hundred homes is provided with community heating and CHP from a central energy centre at the heart of the scheme. The scheme also includes extensive energy efficiency measures and a sustainable urban drainage system.
Project: Regent Street, Greenock Details: A care home development for 11 dementia sufferers , their carers and also 3 flats for rent incorporating community heating from a central boiler plant with underfloor heating throughout. The central system and intrinsically safe heated floor were considered ideal for this type of development. Private Housesenconsult have designed many large private houses for clients who wish to minimise the environmental impacts of their dwellings. Many such houses are designed to incorporate natural ventilation strategies as a fundamental aspect of their design. These techniques require very close liaison with the architect during the concept stage of the design. Many such clients are keen to incorporate a wide range of technologies, often without a clear understanding of the interactions between the systems and the building envelope. enconsult usually recommend a staged approach to such designs, starting with a cost-benefit analysis to inform the design process and permit a rational selection of the correct "package" of measures for each individual building. In the case of rural houses, it is often necessary to review the water supply and usage arrangements to ensure high quality water is supplied whilst minimising treatment costs and environmental impacts. In many such projects, enconsult have recommended the use of a 3D Real Time Simulation model for the house to simulate the energy and air flows within the dwelling and permit a highly accurate assessment of how various startegies will perform in the completed building Future Developmentsenconsult have just completed a number of feasibility studies into the application of community heating and associated technologies on a larger scale. One such study is looking at the possibility of creating a community heating and power network utilising cattle slurry as a fuel source. The use of a biogas plant to convert the slurry into biogas is at the heart of this proposal and the resulting energy will be used to provide heating and power to a whole town in the western isles. Another such study has concluded that community heating with CHP will be the best option for the redevelopment of a substantial area of central Glasgow. The development will create 500 new energy-efficient low cost homes in place of a similar number of electrically heated and poorly insulated high rise flats. |
