Case Studies:

Belfry Group Limited

New Charter Housing Trust -
Chartist House
Hyde
Cheshire

Installation of New Energy Efficient District Heating System.

The tallest building in Hyde made a very public commitment to reducing greenhouse gases last weekend. A pod containing a fully fitted plant room was recently lifted by crane to the top of the 16-storey Chartist House.  Internal access restrictions meant the plant room could not be constructed on the roof so it was winched by crane over 160 feet to settle on a specially strengthened platform.

Belfry Group Limited, acting as Main Contractor have been tasked with the installation of a centralised heating plant, consisting of the highly efficient Buderus GB162 heating boilers housed within the custom made pod and a total of twenty roof solar panels which track the suns movement throughout the course of the day to ensure maximum efficiency.

The specially designed solar panels will preheat the water circulating to each of the Alfa Laval Mini City heating substations within each of the individual apartments (38 of which are sheltered housing) to reduce running costs still further.  This custom designed system will dramatically reduce CO2 emissions and give residents dramatically cheaper heating bills.

The Building Management System designed and installed by Building Software Solutions Limited will monitor the performance of the complete installation and provide New Charter Housing Trust with:

• Energy Saving from Solar Heating System in terms of Value and CO2 Emissions
• Meter Reading of individual heat meters installed in each apartment and billing information
• Interface with the fire alarm providing gas shut off and other safety features
• Monitoring and Maintenance reporting on a ‘real time’ basis.
  
  

The new heating system is expected to reduce CO2 emissions from 160,000kg to 69,000kg. Importantly for the residents, energy bills will fall and space will be gained by removing individual boilers.

Solar Heating for Hot Water & Spa Heating – Residential Pilot Programme
Miramar, San Diego, California.

Pilot scheme for a new project in San Diego, providing 85% of all domestic hot water requirements for 3500 Square Foot Single family dwelling.

In addition to the domestic hot water, the Buderus system also provides hot water for the 1800 litres external hot tub.

Our data collectors record the solar efficiencies on a daily basis to provide real time information on performance.

With the increase in solar efficiency we are looking at a payback time of 3 to 4 years and an obvious reduction in greenhouse gases.