Heating & Ventilation

Heating & Ventilation TREAT THE DIY LOVER IN YOUR LIFE WITH THIS TOOLKIT ADVENT CALENDAR!

This year, if you know someone who is trying to cut out the chocolate, or is just looking for something a little different, did you know that you can now buy a toolkit advent calendar? Available from masters of home and garden, Robert Dyas, you can treat the DIY lover in your life to an innovative advent experience with the Draper toolkit Christmas advent calendar! Draper Toolkit Christmas Advent Calendar – £46.99

Who said advent calendars were just for kids? Not us! This year, why not treat the toolkit lover in your life to 24 days of DIY! This Draper toolkit advent calendar, available online from Robert Dyas, features a total of 53 handy tools and pieces, all contained in a sturdy case to keep everything organised when it comes to the big day! Including a measuring tape, an adjustable wrench, a selection of pliers, hexagon keys and a ¼” hex magnetic screwdriver with 31 different insert bits – this advent calendar truly has everything your DIY fanatic loved one could ever need for those unexpected jobs around the house!

Heating & Ventilation PANASONIC INTRODUCES NEW AQUAREA DESIGNER ONLINE TOOL FOR HEATING AND COOLING PROFESSIONALS

Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions is pleased to introduce its Aquarea Designer, the online tool to help heating and cooling designers, architects, design offices, installers, and distributors alike.

The newly developed air-towater design tool is optimised to help professionals easily identify the most appropriate Aquarea air-to-water heat pump for a particular application, to calculate the savings compared to other heat sources and to calculate CO2 emissions very quickly. The easy-to-use online tool is accessible through Panasonic’s PRO Club and does not require any software downloads, making it a hassle-free solution. The tool has undergone major developments resulting in a modern, straightforward navigation interface, with easily identifiable tabs to help steer users where they need to go. It also includes a detailed ‘user guide’ for additional support if necessary. Panasonic’s bespoke program helps to promptly design and size an Aquarea heat pump system, allowing users to identify the correct application for them at the simple click of a button. Users can compare investment and operational costs compared to other heat sources.

It also calculates the savings and swiftly calculates CO2 emissions. The system can produce a Heat Pump Design Report which includes product web links for heat pumps and DHW tanks and can be individually selected to include the following information: operational costs, investment costs, detailed product information, and ErP label. Aquarea Designer will calculate the project’s energy costs in terms of domestic hot water, heating and cooling demand.

It will furthermore show the total heat consumption by operation mode and the calculated SCOP (Seasonal Coefficient of Performance). It then allows the designer to show clients a comparison with other equipment options such as heating by conventional gasfired boilers, oil fuel systems, pellets and standard electric heating. For more information, please visit: www.panasonicproclub.com/ GB_en/tools/aquarea-software/. or Register for ProClub.

• Continuous flow units & systems deliver hot water on demand • Users pay only for fuel used, not to store heated water

Fuel cost savings of 30% and lower carbon emissions are realistic on all continuous flow hot water heating units and systems installed at any commercial site.

The technology employed means that a site and end-user pays only for fuel used to heat the limitless flow hot water to the required temperature - the units are all programmable up to 85 degrees C.

Says Chris Goggin, Operation

Director for Rinnai, ’Our company operates in over 50 countries worldwide, and manufactures on each of the five continents producing over 2 million water heating units each year. We have a global reach of over 650 design engineers plus testing facilities in Japan, America and Australasia. We have moved this quickly as we perceive that the market is fast changing. Therefore, from early in the New Year we will be broadening our product offering to encompass others forms of lower carbon hot water delivery units and systems.

‘The UK government, although committed to decarbonisation, has been rather mixed in its approach on the road to NetZero but one thing is certain – we must stop using carbon bearing fuels as soon as is realistic and pragmatic. We have huge populations that want to halt climate change but still want to be within their present living standards.

Adds Mr Goggin, ‘We have positioned the Rinnai name as a company that offers the highest quality product and best available value with service excellence. It is a position of responsibility and we have maintained a stance of doing the very best we can for customers. We believe implicitly in this basic premise - we do the best we can, and we achieve what our customers want and expect. And that includes anticipating the future.’

‘We want to see realism brought into an increasingly polarised debate that, at times reaches levels of unbridled hysteria. Fact, logic and reason must be employed for the best outcome for all of us. We need decarbonisation, we need NetZero, and we need it as soon as possible but in such a way that is pragmatic in terms of catering to the existing populations and markets,” he adds.

“We are manufacturers of proven excellence and are using our core competencies of design engineering solutions to suit all possible future needs and fuels. We have a global reach with 650 R & D engineers. We will evolve to ensure that our customers have the very best possible product options.

“We believe, implicitly that there will be a need for a variety of solutions to the Energy Trilemma – there is not one single fuel or appliance that is the answer to all the problems. We also believe that some of the statements coming from quasi-official quarters is the drum-banging of interested parties looking after their own primary financial and or political interests.’

The new products and formats are all Rinnai products and meet or exceed existing or proposed UK legislation or certifications.

For more information on the RINNAI product range visit www.rinnaiuk.com

Construction work has been completed on Gorton Mill House, a new £17million extra care scheme in Gorton, Manchester which, as well as providing 106 apartments, has also been designed around low carbon ambitions. With the use of ground source heat pumps, solar panels and vehicle charging points, Pozzoni Architecture has met the aim of client Southway Housing in that all new build properties will utilise renewable heating and hot water systems, a move away from being reliant upon gas. As well as helping to combat climate change, this approach will also benefit residents due to lower energy bills.

The needs of customers have been at the forefront of the design process, even when it comes to the innovative methods used to reduce the carbon footprint. The heating systems used in the 106 extra care apartments at Gorton Mill House may be cutting edge but have been chosen to look as familiar and conventional as possible for the demographic of the residents, for example pairing modern radiators with a ground source heat pump to provide space and hot water heating. Built by Rowlinson, Gorton Mill House is part of Southway Housing’s ‘With Care’ offer, meaning there is a dedicated care team based within the building, 24-hours a day. It offers excellent on-site facilities including a bistro, garden lounge, activity room, bathing suite and hair & nail salon, along with large, beautiful communal gardens. The development looks to help fulfil Manchester City Council’s housing strategy in respect of ‘Living Longer, Living Better’ in adaptable age friendly homes which encourage health and well-being through increased independence, reduced social isolation and community involvement. For that reason, it not only fulfils the vision for providing special needs housing but it will improve the health of older people within the community due to the high level of specialised care that will be offered. Gorton Mill House has been landscaped to provide a public, semi-public and private realm. The public facilities are designed to be enjoyed by the local community, drawing them into the site and towards the hub area.

Eleanor McCallum, associate, Pozzoni Architecture commented: “Gorton Mill House fulfils an important role in the local community, meeting the demand for extra care facilities and creating a wonderful, inviting and flexible environment for older people to live and socialise.

“It’s also a development that has been designed to meet the needs of the modern world with sustainability at the fore, incorporating innovative low carbon technologies that will be better for the planet and better for residents’ energy bills.” Karen Mitchell, Chief Executive of Southway Housing Trust, said: “Gorton Mill House has