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End-to-end district energy solutions: powering sustainable urban heating
Gareth Ash, Marketing Communications Manager at Danfoss, discusses how district energy offers a proven, scalable, and energy-efficient…
April 2025
Heat Interface Units and Return Temperature Limitation: Optimising heat network performance
Heat Interface Units (HIUs) play a pivotal role in managing return temperatures for heat networks
April 2025
Smooth operator – multi-layer composite pipes
Piping made from multi-layer composite pipe is a viable alternative to copper because it offers flexibility, speed of installation and the elimination of hot works…
September 2018
Hard facts – new Icom guide to water quality
An estimated half of all commercial hot-water systems have operational problems because of limescale, says Sentinel Commercial’s Chris Shelton, who believes Icom’s new guide can…
September 2018
Cool city living – tackling overheating risk in a glazed Salford tower
When excessive glazing caused a high-rise tower block in the centre of Manchester to overheat, contractor Proline developed a solution that plugged into a district…
August 2018
Heat recovery at the University Arms Hotel
Cambridge’s University Arms Hotel refurbishment had to accommodate a complex heat recovery system on a constrained site with strict planning restrictions. Nuaire’s Andrew Bott explains
August 2018
What’s cooking – measuring PM2.5
To ensure indoor air quality measurements in homes are accurate and repeatable, we need standards that clearly define sensor types, calibration methods, sampling frequency, averaging…
August 2018
Take despair out of disrepair – guidance on dilapidations
Guidance on dilapidations from building services engineers is a specialist area, argues TFT’s Marc Hill – so what should be considered before a lease starts,…
August 2018
A secure refrigerant supply
A collaborative approach in response to the F-gas phase down will ensure security of supply of HFCs in the next few years, as manufacturers and…
August 2018
Vital signs of success – North West Ambulance Service’s energy performance contract with Imtech
An energy-performance contract between North West Ambulance Service and Imtech is exceeding expectations. Tony Cookson, energy manager at Imtech, explains how
July 2018
Site test – testing heat networks before handover
Acceptance testing allows developers to see if heat networks are working before handover. The tool is being used across 20 developments, says FairHeat’s Gareth Jones,…
July 2018
How NewMass combines chilled water with PCM to save energy
NewMass cooling systems offer the energy savings of passive design and the control of mechanical cooling. Phil Lattimore speaks to BuroHappold’s Gideon Susman about the…
July 2018
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