For the sake of our planet, we must believe that too.
Carried out by Bryden Wood’s CIBSE accredited Low Carbon Consultants, it encompassed all key variables, such as air flow, condensation levels, and heat sources.The energy efficiencies achieved through different design iterations can be seen in the chart.. After testing in the virtual environment, Photovoltaic (PV) roof panels, and Combined Power and Heat Units (CHP), were identified as the most efficient energy solutions.
CHPs deliver clean, low-carbon thermal and electrical energy, and were carefully sized to match the building’s electricity and hot water usage.In Barnet Copthall, CHP alone reduced carbon emissions by 91.1 tonnes pa; and by 56.7 tonnes pa for Barnet Leisure Centre..Intelligent air handling.
Air handling systems were designed to use as little energy as possible, whilst ensuring a healthy, fresh indoor environment.So demand control ventilation, activated by CO. 2. sensors, provides an optimal level of fresh air in fitness areas.
And in the same way, an advanced, mixed mode system with Building Management System control, ventilates the sports halls.
By using low energy passive ventilation for periods of lower use, but powerful mechanical ventilation at peak times, it minimises energy consumption whilst maximising the comfort of users.In fact, the latter figure is expected to increase to three billion people by 2050.
It’s essential that we start addressing where all of this needed energy is going to come from.Eric Ingersoll has conducted analysis which suggests that if everyone on earth had access to just a median level of electricity (about 4,000 kilowatt hours compared to an existing rate of 15,000 kilowatt hours in the U.S.), even then, we’d need to triple our energy infrastructure.
It’s vital that we start taking our rising energy demand into account, and building it into our climate mitigation strategies..Replacing fossil fuels with sustainable energy infrastructure.