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PROJECT
The Village,
Bramley
The entrance to the project site at The Village, Bramley.
By Eamonn Ryan
EESCO was brought in to do the hot water system, for the seven
blocks of both phases of a housing project called The Village
in Bramley which is near completion. The project under review
involves a 320kW heat pump, one of the largest EESCO has
ever done.
More people, more water, more saving
EESCO (Elemental Energy) is a company whose core
business is commercial heat pumps and hot and cold water
reticulation. It is currently installing an indirect ‘district
heating’ system at an affordable housing project called The
Village in Bramley which is near completion. The biggest
heat pump that it has manufactured and installed to date is
a 500kW machine, while the current project under review
involves a 320kW heat pump.
Andrew Lowe of EESCO says, “The Village, Bramley, is a
two-year project that has been developed in two phases with
Phase 1 of approximately 180 units already complete (at the
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time of the visit) and mostly rented out, and Phase 2 of 354
units under construction.”
EESCO’s brief was to design and supply an energy efficient
hot water system to supply 534 flats housing approximately
1 350 people. The design was to include hot water storage,
heating system, pressure pumps and ring main feed to each
flat, primarily using the municipal water mains.
“Instead of putting in seven heat pumps and seven tanks –
one for each block – we decided on a central plant which
would distribute the hot water to each block via a ‘primary
ring main’. The primary circuit exchanges heat with each
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