Technical
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…
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
Greening the City: installing heat pumps at Citigen’s central London energy centre
The City of London is adding heat pumps and boreholes to its Farringdon energy centre and hopes to encourage more commercial buildings to plug into…
The dash from gas: converting schools from gas to heat pumps
With the need to switch from fossil fuels to renewables becoming ever more pressing, one heat pump retrofit schools project in Yorkshire could be the…
Tightening up: TM23 Testing building for air leakage
The latest update to the Building Regulations includes reference to a new CIBSE TM23 guide on airtightness testing. Julie Godefroy reviews the new TM, which includes…
Optimising ventilation in the post-Covid classroom
To optimise classroom indoor air quality, schools need to take a holistic approach to natural ventilation and air cleaning technology, argues CIBSE’s Chris Iddon
Radical departure? Retrofitting for heat pumps
With the pressure on homeowners to replace domestic gas boilers with heat pumps, it is essential that engineers ensure that existing radiators and pipework are…
Decarbonomics: Delivering on the net zero promise
Organisations are setting ambitious 2030 targets in response to the climate emergency, but how do they decarbonise property assets in such a short period of…
How Britain’s film industry was saved from the London fog
In the early days of cinema, the UK’s biggest studios were in central London, but pervasive fog – ‘pea-soupers’ – was entering film sets and…
Dual purpose: evaporative cooling
Switching between modes in dual evaporative coolers can result in large operational savings, according to a recent B&SERT paper. Tim Dwyer looks at the latest…
Digging for Britain: Swaffham Prior’s heat network
Escalating energy prices and the urgent need to decarbonise means communities are looking to move away from fossil fuel as a heating source. A pioneering heat network in…
Turning to CO2 refrigerant in large-scale retrofits
Using CO2 as a refrigerant in heat pumps is ideal for retrofits requiring higher-temperature heat. Daniel Clark, of Isentra, reports on the refurbishment of Wolfson…